‘You have a choice to make’: Alex Gray talks to local teens about vaping, social media, and the power of choice
Alex Gray speaks to students at Torrance High as part of his South Bay speaking tour. Photo Editor’s note: Professional Surfer Alex Gray, a South Bay native, has been doing a tour of local schools to give a talk that he first began giving 15 years ago after the death of his brother Chris from a heroin overdose. Working with South Bay Families Connected, Gray is now using the talk to address the vaping epidemic; a recent Beach Cities Health District survey found that one in three Mira Costa High School 11th graders vapes, and the habit has increasingly reached even younger students. This talk was given at Manhattan Beach Middle School on Oct. 7. by Alex Gray For the last 23 years, I have been a professional surfer. I’ve had major sponsors who allowed me to travel to places like Micronesia, Australia, and Morocco. I was going to about 18 countries a year, living my dream that started at 10 years old at lovely Torrance Beach. I rode my first wave at Torrance. We were in every sport imaginable, and my brother went through Junior Lifeguards and learned how to surf and he came home and said, “I want to be a surfer.” And I looked at my parents….and they said, “Yeah, we’d love for you to…
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