Beach camps threatened by new bidding process
Many longstanding local beach camps believe a policy passed by the LA County Board of Supervisors threaten their existence. Easy Reader file photo When Jack Tingley founded Beach Sports sixteen years ago, he was traversing new sands. Alongside fellow lifeguards Kip Jerger and Bruce Kocsis, Tingley created a platform for teaching surf and volleyball instruction at a scale that was non-existent on county beaches. “It wasn’t a big business thing at the time,” recalled Tingley. “[Instructors] would go out with 10-12 kids a couple weeks a summer, but that was it. Myself, Kip and Bruce, all within a year or so of each other, started camps with kids coming down on an organized weekly basis. We took business principles to the beach.” In addition to surf and volleyball instruction, Tingley founded a junior lifeguard program for kids he saw struggling to make it into the county program. Many of these kids have since gone on to be Los Angeles County lifeguards. Sixteen years later, Tingley has seen 22,000 kids pass through his camps. A revised beach use policy adopted by Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors last month could threaten Beach Sports, as well as many other established surf…
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