Mike Davis is the real deal. A surfer and career surfboard shaper from Santa Barbara, California and living in Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia. He is also an award winning writer and published poet. Born in the heartland of the United States he has travelled extensively and surfed some of the most challenging waves on the planet. Educated at UC Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College he has spent he entire working career building boards and writing freelance for TRACKS, SURFING WORLD, SURFERS JOURNAL, PACIFIC LONGBOARDER and many others. He surfs when he can and lives at Noosa with his artist wife Jo.