You Don't Want to Put All Your Hits on Someone All the Time

"There's no wrong or right why I had to deal with grief. And there's a real sunny, both literally and figuratively, there's a very sunny thing about meeting on the beach," he says. "I remember almost feeling like I don't even want to burden these people with this thing I'm going through because we're all having a good time out here." He was lucky that he got to travel with his best friends before any of the pro surfing ever happened.