Redondo Parras Middle Schooler defeats veterans in SB Boardriders/Dive N Surf longboard competition
by Kevin Cody South Bay Boardrider contests are notable for showcasing emerging young surfers. Over the past two years sisters London, 12, and Teagan Meza, 9, and 12-year-old Marlo Harris have proven young girls can beat young boys. But never in the contests’ 10-year history, has a new, young competitor beaten older veterans as convincingly as 7th grade, Parras Middler Schooler Cormac Cove O’Brien did in the Open Longboard division of the SBBC Dive N’ Surf contest at Torrance Beach, on Saturday. The skinny 12-year-old’s middle name is a reference to Bluff Cove, where his dad Shawn O’Brien, a top tier longboarder, taught his son to surf. Cormac Cove O’Brien gets photobombed by veteran longboarder “Big Dave” Schaeffer. Photo by Kevin Cody His longboard roots were evident when he showed up lugging a 9-foot-1, volan-glassed, Davenport-shaped single fin that weighed almost as much as he did. Commanding even more attention was his pink hair, which complimented the tie dye design on his board. Comparisons to Chris “Birdman” Andersen, minus the tattoos, came to mind. Happily, the comparison extended to his competitiveness, as well. (“Birdman” helped LeBron James’s Miami Heat win the NBA…
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