Welcome Sunny to the Slyde Team

October 07, 2014 1 min read

We welcome Sunny Chamblee Rickard to the SLYDE Team! Sunny is a shredder from Cali, Carlsbad to be precise, she is also a member of the esteemed Wolf Pack Bodysurfing Crew from Ocean side. She recently placed first in the woman's Straigh Outta Whompton wavehouse bodysurfing competition on the San Diego based standing wave. We are super stoked to welcome Sunny into the SLYDE Family and we think she will fit in quiet well here, if the anwers to her questions are anything to go by we already love Sunny!

Check out here Bio on the SLYDE team page

HOME TOWN: Carlsbad

DATE OF BIRTH: 11-19-1981

HOBBIES: Porsches, Body Surfing, Surfing, Sailing, Swimming Laps, Running, TRI’s, Gardening (really just a plant killer, but I try to garden), Hiking, Jeeping, Photography, anything with my 14-lb crazy Poodle-mix “Bud” …all in no particular order.

FAVORITE SURFER: Laird

MOTTO: "DO SOMETHING FUN EVERYDAY"

WHO INSPIRES YOU THE MOST? Joan Rivers #RIP

WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST FEAR? Getting stuck in that bad spot in the wipeout at the WaveHouse.

LAST TIME YOU WORE A TIE? Tied to bed post last night

FAVORITE NON-SURF FILM? SUPER-TROOPERS

NUMBER ONE ON YOUR BUCKET LIST? HIKE WHITNEY, Actually. Then maybe the sailing and surfing South Pacific, still haven’t been.

FAVORITE WAVES: RALPHS, O’SIDE HARBOR, MARRON ST – WISCONSIN AVE O’SIDE

FAVORITE MANEUVERS: The Flying Squirrel

FAVORITE COUNTRY TO VISIT OR WANT TO VISIT: Italia

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WON THE LOTTERY? Le-Mans

More Pictures of Sunny Shredding the Southern Cali Coast Keep

steven watts

Growing up in South Africa, Steve spent his youth dreaming of far off places. After spending eight years extensively traveling to many of the great surf destinations of the world getting dengue fever, having a near death experience from a falling coconut in mexico, Surviving a 15 foot drop on a handboard on a Nias bomb, jumping from every rock he could find without adequate health insurance. and comprehensively debunking the myth there are no waves in Thailand, even if they are small. He decided it was time for a a degree. Steve Graduated from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London with a degree in product design. He missed his graduation to go surfing in Californian, found a kindred spirit with Venice and never left

Welcome Sunny to the Slyde Team

steven watts

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