 Wavejunkies Rider: Lance
Aliases: Derm,Air Gramps,ole grumpy, yonker beiotch, Nancy,Godfather
First surf ride: Back when the florida rally series was hip
Local break: Virginia Beach
Age: old and gray
Freerides attended: Jersey Rager '05, Daytona Motosurf '06, Lake Anna '06, Jersey Rager '06, Wavedaze '06, Daytona Motosurf '07, Lake Anna '07, Wavedaze '07, Daytona Motosurf '08, Lake Anna '08, Wavedaze '08, Daytona Motosurf '09
Favorite: Helmet: Ace nose breaker; Shoes: Asics wrestling shoes; Vest: Slippery side entry; Beer: Coors Light; Warm gear: dry suit and hand warmers
Tricks:
Superjet surf
 Blaster surf
- can-can
- superman
- nose stab
- rodeo
- nothing
- nac-nac
- Next up: Get back on the Water and not kill himself
Rides
1995 Yamaha Waveblaster 1
- 61X 701cc motor
- Riva red pipe
- Famous hot swappable E box
- Custom bloody tampon fade paint
Winter 2009 roast!
Lance is the old school Godfather original wavejunkie and is one of three that started the junkie surf riding movement. He's got a leg up on us in ski time since he was also around when the prop was invented. He will be forever known for his slick black and silver xpl that was aired out until the point it consisted of more stress cracks than solid glass. Lance is like the contact cement that holds the turf, uh, I mean the group together. He started the now popular junkie past time of the Trash Talk website that consumes so much of the wavejunkies pass the dry time.
 Ole gramps, or ole grumpy depending on the day, and the meds administered is the X factor that holds all ages and walks together in the junkie clan. Especially when it comes to a ramp rally time, trip carpool, dinner plans, or when it's time to get yer lazy azz up at the crack and hit the beach. The only one I know who still uses New York time (10 min early to the ramp is 15 min late in his book). This New Yorker will wait for no one! Father time don’t be messin around wit ramp times. The junkie who keeps everyone out of trouble knowing all the law codes and keeping the cops in check when they have no idea what they are talking about. Also, one of the founding fathers of the lunch joy luck gossip club, making sure no junkie trauma or stepping up of the riding will go unnoticed.
For being one foot out of the senior citizen grave, he has seemed to become our resident superman. We use to think the old fart was unstopable, until recently when his mortal junkie carnage caught up with him. He proved his manhood when he painted his ski like a bloody tampon. You just can't argue that, that's fact! On the rare occasion he has a bad landing and goes to the ER, he still throws down at the after party like the tough ol' Junkie he is. We all know he will be right back out there going big and yearning for his first inverted moment in junkie history. He is the first guy to throw a junkie jam at the lunquist me casa su casa junkie house. Lance knows how to put back more than a few Coors light, while entertaining us all with his inability to change oil or brakes in other junkers cars or talking other junkies into strapping shock collars to their nutz. Yet somehow he still manages to be the voice of reason and keep things in perspective???
Air Gramps is the king of doing fiberglass.... his way. The master at carb tuning... as long as it's the reeds. He loves everyone... to understand that he knows best. He's recruited and retained more junkies than most of us combined... nearly as many as his tuff luv has scared off. He can explain anything to you that you need to know in a brief 2 second phone call where you dont even get a chance to say bye he can stop a phone convo from 60 to dead stop better than a brand new set of raybestos brakes ..... Lance tells ya how it is and if you don't like it then sorry. Dude is by far one of the badest friggn old fockers, throwin huge freakin airs, supermans and can cans. After all its good to see seniors getting away from the bingo table and making something of themselves these days. We all patiently wait for him to roll the old B1 though, "its my ski, it just wont roll" isn’t a good enough excuse anymore!! "I have a cracked pelvis" might be.....
The founder and the glue of the junkies!! sniff sniff!! Werd up!
Werd:
- 2 min man on the phone, maybe in the sack
- A man who turfs us all together
- A guy who did so many superman’s he almost became one.
- The only yonker any of us have ever liked
- The guy that does what ever it takes to get a junkie fixed and back in the water
- The guy that invented the rule “never turn parallel to a breaking wave"…lol
- “quit your whining and come ride”
- "Meet me for joy luck lunch gossip"
- :5 min early is really 10 min late
- "there's no crying in baseball"
From the junkster's mouth:
Words from Air Gramps. I owe it all to an old friend Chris, that took me out on an epic day in the summer of 2001. My ski was a 2000 XPL and Chris was on his 96 XP we were the only two that day launching the ski’s and getting massive air. The adrenaline of thrill came back, like a kid on a new dirt bike, or the first ride on the new roller coaster at the park. This was it and I knew it. I could stay out for hours and couldn’t wait for the next ride. This was the beginning of what has now become the Virginia Beach Wavejunkies. Bla bla bla.... I could ramble on and on. I have erased more words then I have left in this story. I just want to tell all my current Junkies and  anyone even wanting to try it, to get that ski out and ride it. The ski can take it, the bones can take it, and it hurts a lot less then the dirt.
To my Junkie friends. As I sit here, the rest of the words in thought come easy, but the words that makes it sound right don’t . The words of “brother”, “family” and “respect” covers almost all of you. We have seen a lot, some births, some marriages, the camping, the road trip, and the stories say a lot. I know I have that hard headed NY attitude and try to push people sometimes but the truth is, I really do care for all of you. As the old guy, I do try and live the freeride motto of "Go Big or Go Home" and push the limit of age, strength and stupidity. Well enough of this lame, non productive B.S. and lets get out and ride.
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