Name: Mark Healey

Birth Date: December 2, 1981

Birthplace: Wahiawa, Oahu Hawaii

Resides: Sunset Beach, Hawaii/On the road

Height: 5’9”

Weight: 160

Year started riding/surfing and why: 3 years old, Dad just threw me on his board and started chucking me into waves

Year first sponsored and by who: Got sponsored by Hawaiian Surf when I was 13 years old. Got one free board and three items a month from the sale rack

Year turned pro (or expect to turn pro): 17

Other Sponsors: Quiksilver, Electric, Monster, Waterman Sunscreen, Wave Riding Vehicles, High Surf Accessories, Lei Lei’s Bar and Grill

Shoe Size: 9.5-10

Favorite DC shoe: Can’t go wrong with the Tonik

Music: Pretty much everything, I get bored quickly

Heroes: My parents for feeding me and putting a roof over my head.

Favorite Movies: The Year of Living Dangerously, The Hurt Locker, Lost in Translation, Baraka, The Hangover, The Goonies

Favorite Word: merkin

Favorite Food: Pho

Favorite Video Game: I don’t play video games

Favorite Magazine: Vice

Favorite Trick: Dead Cockroach

Top 3 activities: Surfing, Spearfishing, Skydiving

Idols/Influences: Frank Sinatra, Captain Joe Kittinger and Popeye

Best Thing About SURF: The Ocean always changes and it doesn’t give a flying shit about who you are. It’s an even playing field.

Worst Thing About SURF: The way the mainstream views surfing

Best Place to Ride/Surf: Pipeline/Mavericks/Teahupo’o/ Hawaiian Outer Reefs

Worst Place to Go: To jail on a Friday night.

Career goals and aspirations: To ride the biggest waves in the history of mankind.

Words of wisdom: Never make a ho a housewife.