Surfing’ Santas of Cocoa Beach
The Santas move Downtown to Minutemen Causeway on Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24, 2014 from 8am-Noon
The Christmas Eve surfing event, conceived by George Trosset in 2009 at 24th Street, has since grown from a few surfers and friends to a gathering of hundreds of people of all generations and backgrounds.
The event, which runs from 8 a.m. to noon at the end of Minutemen Causeway in front of Coconuts on the Beach, is expected to draw close to 500 people (and over 5,000 spectators) this year and will raise funds for the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum and Grind for Life, a local organization dedicated to helping cancer patients and their families.
We recently spoke to Mr. Trosset about the Surfing Santas phenomenon and about how it has grown from a small family event into an annual gathering of what he describes as “local surfing tribes.”
Surfin’ Santas Cover of the Beachside Resident
“It’s the one day a year that all the tribes share all the waves with each other,” he says. “The story represents something that rarely happens in the surfing community.”
“On a normal day surfing, even when surfing with friends from your tribe, there is a constant battle to catch a wave and ride it by yourself. ‘I got it,’ ‘Comin’ down,’ or a whistle all signify to the other surfers trying to catch ‘my’ wave to stop paddling and let me have the wave to myself. It happens every day at every surf spot in the world!”
“Localism is an ongoing custom, handed down from our surfing forefathers,” George continues. “When surfers from another ‘tribe’ invade your local break, most of the time the new guy is not welcome. We don’t want to share our local break with anyone. SUP surfers are disliked by longboarders and shortboarders; longboarders are disliked by shortboarders and aggressive shortboarders are disliked by longboarders… Surfers yell, scream, make gestures with their hands, and fight over perceived rights to waves.”
“But on December 24, when the all the different tribes gather in Cocoa Beach, we all share the local break and all the waves. The community response to Surfing Santas has been beyond belief as well, and the broader Cocoa Beach community tribe is coming together as well. This event encourages all of us to share the waves, at least one day a year.”
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ALL ABOUT THE BEACH
LYRICS – SURFIN’ SANTAS 2014
(Music by Platinum Instrumentals. To the original cover instrumental of “All About That Bass” in the tune of Meghan Trainor) http://www.youtube.com/user/platinumi…
(Lyrics by: Anna Lusk, George Trosset, Jacie Christiansen, Charlie Tuna, & Dave Miller)
(Singer: Anna Lusk: http://www.alwaysannamusic.com)
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Because You know we’re all about the beach
Cocoa Beach, Surfin’ Santas
St. Nicks all about the beach
Cocoa Beach Surfin’ Santas
He’s all about the beach
Cocoa Beach Surfin’ Santas
We’re all about the Beach
Cocoa Beach (Beach – Beach – Beach)
Yeah it’s pretty clear
He ain’t no size two
Be he can hang 10
Just like the pros do
He wears that red suit
That all the kids Chase
And you can see him Surfin’
Racing down the face!
You’ll see a crazy scene
No it ain’t Photoshop
Hundreds of Surfin’ Santas
Paddle in to make a drop
So much red white and green
Unlike you have ever seen
The Santa’s wax their board from the bottom to the top
Meet some friends on the beach paddle out catch some waves have some fun
On Christmas eve trees are up lights are on and the work is all done
Each surf tribe leaves their break and all gathers to surf for a cause
Raising money, havin’ fun sharing waves of Joy with Santa Clause
Because you know we’re all about the beach
Cocoa Beach, surfin Santas
St. Nicks all about the beach
Cocoa Beach, Surfin Santas
We’re all about the beach
Cocoa Beach, – (Beach – Beach – Beach)
Cocoa Beach has Kelly’s back!!
Eleven time champ likes to wear his Santa hat
In Backside Barrels & and Getting shacked
But I’m here to tell ya
He can shred a wave from the bottom to the top
Yeah Momma, she told me don’t worry about the size
She thinks a little more belly fits jolly old santa just right (The Belly Belly, The Belly Belly)
He brings surfboards and bikes and the girls get little dolls
So if that’s not what you believe then go ahead and move alongggg
Because you know we’re all about the Beach,
Cocoa Beach, GO KELLY!
St. Nick’s all about the beach!
Cocoa Beach! Surfin Santas
He’s all about the beach! Cocoa Beach! Surfin Santas
We’re all about the beach! Cocoa Beach! Surfin Santas
We’re all about the beach! Cocoa Beach! Surfin Santas
St. Nick’s about the beach! Cocoa Beach! Surfin Santas
He’s all about the beach! Cocoa Beach! Surfin Santas
We’re all about the beach! Cocoa Beach! Surfin Santas
He’s All about the beach, Cocoa Beach!
Santa’s all about the beach, about the Beach!
He’s all about the beach, Cocoa Beach!
He’s all about the beach!
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