Alex Gray goes BIG
by Mark McDermott Two years ago, Alex Gray found himself at a crossroads. His 22 year professional surfing career had recently come to a close, and like everyone else, he’d just endured the dark first year of the pandemic. For Gray, this had meant no surf trips, and closed local beaches — keeping him from doing what he loved most, traveling and surfing. It wasn’t an ideal time to forge a new path. He was 35 years old, cut off from all the things that had sustained him, financially and spiritually, his entire adult life. Alone in his home in Rolling Hills Estates, a question gnawed at him: “Who am I now?” “I was so scared,” Gray said. “My identity, purpose, and ego had been shattered when I wasn’t introducing myself as, ‘Hi, I am Alex Gray, I am a professional surfer.’” Gray had blazed his way into the pro surf world when he was barely a teenager. He wasn’t just a talented surfer, but a precociously skilled and daring big wave rider. His parents, Laurie and Dudley Gray, were shocked when he came home from a surf trip to Central California and popped in a DVD that showed their young son flying down the face of one of the largest, most daunting waves on the planet, at the aptly named…
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