An interview with Florida's Brad Evers by Chris Marciniak on November 23, 2003.

Name: Brad Evers
Age: 23

How long have you been skimming? How long have you been skimming in South Florida?
Since age 8, since 2000.

What do you like most about skimming So. Fla.? What do you like least?
Most: Variety. Many different types of breaks, surf sandbar reforms, secondary siders at Sebastian Inlet, good shorepound at Spanish House.
Least: Inconsistency. It can be head high one day and knee high chop the next, so you really have to be there when it's on, or at least you can say I would have been there if it was on.

Where do you most often skim in South Florida? Vilano? Spanish House? Sebastian Inlet?
Spanish House, although I don't skim but like maybe once every two weeks. Sebastian is not as consistent.

What are your other favorite breaks, if any?
Vilano, because when the south swells hit, it makes right hand a-frame lines with many sections to choose from. Oh and it's gnarly.

What type of board do you most often ride? Before and after the b.e. model? Specs?
The b.e. model has always been what I ride, now it just has a label, (I'm a sellout). It's a low-profile ML board with thinned nose, tail and rails.

What type of board do you think perform best on a typical So Fla. wave?
A flat fast one so you can get to the wave before it pitches. A lot of people say a short curved board so it fits in the pocket, but you can't really get to the real pocket anyway on one of those boards.

What are some of the most memorable sessions you've had in So. Fla.? What was the best day you've ever skimmed in South Florida?
At Spanish House and southside of Sebastian Inlet, I have caught some 4-5' days of leftover hurricane swell which was reforming so perfectly that, you could catch any wave as far out as you possibly could, it would then barrel on the beach as you are surfing it in...and the water was sheet glass and crystal blue.
Vilano has had way too many days of perfect right hand tubes to even pick out a single session. I've got 40 Gb's of good clips on my computer from those many sessions over the years.

How has South Florida changed over the years you've been skimming it?
It's gotten less consistent. Boardwalk used to be a bodyboarder's (skimmers) break with huge shorebreak, but lately the sand is all gone, no more steep beach. Spanish House has not changed much, there is still always potential for good skim on any swell.

Any tips you'd care to share with newbies to South Florida? or visitors?
Ummmmm, run fast. And don't get in my way.

Any other observations, comments, and passions about Laguna? Here's your chance to say something earth-shatteringly profound about The Skimming Life.
Life is what you make of it.

Thanks Brad.
-Chris, and the rest of the NJskim.com crew.