All for a Few Tasty Waves: Local surfer Chris Wells Profile
Chris Wells shatters the glass. Photo Monday, December 23, 2012: Chris Wells put himself on the edge of another Avenues drainer. He’s locked in the dirty vortex, half sand, half water equaling a 100 percent critical tube, the escape just yards away. Fully committed Wells, pumps, all hell breaking over him, chases the closing gap… The late 70s was the era of Chris Wells’ introduction to the surf lifestyle. A time with fewer man-made obstacles protruding west, the surf spots and sand bars were spread out instead of being concentrated like today. “Before the El Segundo Jetty, the sand flowed differently,” Wells said. “Each street had its own surf scene.” Wells’ line-up was at 1st Street in Manhattan, down the beach from the 30th Street crew of Chris Frohoff, Kelly Gibson, and Mitch Rodgers and the 4th Street standouts led by Mark Theodore “who was on the NSSA National team” and Steve Machin, “who went on to become a Pipeline standout and married Miss Hawaii.” Wells and some of his grom crew. Photo courtesy of Chris Wells Street surfers like Derek and Mark Levy, Cameron and Chris Evans and Brian Volmer,” Wells said. “I’m grateful for growing up in that scene, with the old boys talking…
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