Spotlight on Riders to Watch
Name: Mark Miedama
Date of Birth: 11/5/91
Nationality: American
Hometown: Ocean City, NJ, USA
Discipline: Freestyle in the waves
Home spot: Corson's Inlet (Ocean City, NJ)
Favorite gear: Ozone 9m 13m Instinct
Change in life: I'm only 15, every year seems to be so much different than the last.
Competition Results: Ready to start
Who do you look up to: My first kite sponsors mom/dad
More important than kiting: School, I guess
Personality adjectives: Determined, likable, helpful
Best and worst parts of "job": Enjoy hanging with my friends, but the 7 hours a day for 5 days a week in school sucks
Hero’s: Greg Waller from OBX ,NC and "Big Matt" Dye from OC, NJ
Want people to know: Kiting can add to your surfing experience
What’s on ipod: If I had one, everything but country
Favorite drink: Ginger ale
Free time: High school soccer/baseball, surfing, and snowboarding
Year off? Impossible
Inspiration: To surpass the older guys
Sponsors: Hyperflex wetsuits, hopefully OzoneMark Miedama Jr.
Plans : To travel and get better at kiting
Interesting saying : "A man's ability is different than a man's will."
Mark is a member of the "Young Guns" that ride in Ocean City, NJ regularly. It seems that once Mark jumped on the SLE style kites, his riding improved faster than could be imagined!
Mark Miedama, age 15, lives in Ocean City, New Jersey, USA. This beach town in southern New Jersey boasts great wind and surf and has a hard-core group of kiters that favor the waves and downwinders. Mark is part of a new generation of young rippers from this area who are pushing the limits with a combination of seasoned wave knowledge and big moves. He is also a distinguished honors student who excels at soccer, baseball, and surfing. He is presently on the "A-squad" of his nationally ranked high school surf team who captured their 14th consecutive NSSA state title. Their team will be bound for Nationals in California in June of 2008. Mark's favorite locations to kite are his home break at Corson's Inlet and anywhere in the ocean in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. With the support of Atlantickiteboarding.com and Ozone kites, Mark hopes to progress with his unhooked moves and enter the competition scene.
September 2007