About Me

Well....My name is Christian Bailey and I grew up in Santa Cruz, California and Paris, France. Over the course of my life, I was blessed to have spent a number of years traveling the world surfing, skating and exploring. I returned to Santa Cruz in 2004 and have been perfectly content to chill here ever since. This area has a abundance of natural beauty, I personaly feel you would be hard pressed to match anywhere else. My life threw me a bit of a curve ball in July of 2006 while my team and I were filming a video at Derby skatepark here in Santa Cruz. I slipped out, stacked hard and fractured my L3&L4 vertebrae. Unfortunatly, this left me paralyzed from the waist down...However, i've always been of mindset that life is what you make of it, and is far too short to sit around feeling sorry for yourself. Luckly enough for me, i've been blessed with the best family and friends one could ask for and they have always been there for me! Lately, I've been surfing and chairskating on tour, as well as designing surfboards specifically geared toward the needs of disabled surfers. It's a area of surfing that I feel, has'nt yet been explored and adapted to it's full potencial . And since my injury, it has quickly developed into one of my strongest passions... I'm also a ambassador for the Life Rolls On foundation, which helps to raise public awareness and funding for spinal cord injury research My major goal through these efforts, is to help empower others with disabilities to pursue their dreams despite their physical limitations! ...It is my belief when all is said and done; The lord throws challenges our way in life, it's how we choose to face those challenges that defines us as who we are!!!