Noah Brooks is a bodyboarder from the bayou…the Gulf Coast Florida.

What’s your name?
Noah Brooks

Where are you from originally?
Point Pleasant New Jersey. Its a small fishing town on the Jersey shore wedged between Atlantic City and New York City. I was born in the old hospital on the Manasquan river.

Where do you live now?
Down on the bayou, Gulf Coast Florida.

How old are you?
About 24

How long have you been bodyboarding?
10 years.

Where do you bodyboard normally?
Sebastian area. more than a 3 hour drive across the great state of Florida to get there. sometimes it is worth it.

Who do you bodyboard with?
The other Florida guys, or by myself.

What is your favorite bodyboard spot?
Secret spot in the Gulf of Mexico, Teahupoo, V-land

Where have you traveled to bodyboard?
Texas,Georgia,Outer Banks,Cape Cod, Mexico,California, Hawaii 4x, Tahiti, Australia

Where do you want to travel to bodyboard?
France, South America, Alaska, Indo

What board(s) do you ride?
NMD Ben Player

Do you compete?
sometimes

If so, what competitions have you competed in?
FBA,ESA,USBA

And what are some of your contest highlights?
When I won a pineapple at the Melbourne founders day contest

What other board sports do you partake in?
I just say no

What bodyboard goals do you have?
Get some big ones. Maybe break some hearts along the way.

Where do you see the bodyboarding going in the future?
It’s going more mental every day. It’s hard to say where bodyboarding will be a week from now.

What riders influenced your bodyboarding?
Botha, Roach, Spencer Skipper

What riders are pushing the sport right now?
Aussies and Pierre

If you were stranded on a desert island that already has a plentiful resource of bodyboards and fins what three things would you bring?
Etch a sketch, kaleidoscope, 8×10 black and white photo of Eiffel tower. Framed.

What is the best advice you can give to a bodyboard grom trying to get recognized?
Go bigger than your friends

Any last words of advice? Shout outs?
Ride the snake. big shout out to the Florida guys, Lefty in Nashville, and the people of the Republic of Lakota.