Living the Dreams of the Past: Local teenage Longboard Sensation, Josh Gilberts’ Profile
Crouching TIGER hidden TEENAGER, Gilberts strays down south from Cen-Bay into a undisclosed tube. Photo Living the dreams of the past To make matters worse, an octopus had taken hold of his leash and right leg One day, when Josh Gilberts was just 13, he decided to paddle out with the locals at ElPorto during an 8-foot swell It took him a half hour just to get past the shore break. Then he waited inside for another 15 minutes for a lull. But when he finally made his move to the outside, a 10-foot wave caught him, driving him to the bottom. His board was tomb-stoning straight up and down on the surface as he pulled himself up his leash, hand-over-hand. He reached the surface just in time to meet an even bigger wave. “I was churning around like I was caught in the wash cycle of a washing machine, with no air left in my lungs,” he said. To make matters worse, an octopus had taken hold of his leash and right leg. He still has the scars to prove it. “I went with my instincts and started nibbling the leash like a mad tiger and beating the Octopus with my south paw,” he said. Gilberts and his beloved Jetty…A romance started in High School since the two traded class rings. Photo by Brent…
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