Genaro Garro
Genaro Shaping a board in 2017 at his home garage in Clairmont , San Diego, CA
photo by his wife Lisa.
HISTORY BEHIND GS
MEETING THE MAN BEHIND THE ART;
Working with the knowledge he has acquired over many years shaping, Genaro shapes with precision, quality and the care that only a professional posses.
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After moving back to his home town of Bahia Ballena, Costa Rica, Genaro has fired up the planner and is creating for riders of all walks of life. Whether you are learning in shin high waves or fine tuning your front side air on double over head point breaks, Genaro at Garro Surfboard Designs will outfit you with the board that will take you where you want to go.
Back in the early 2000 I would go with my dad to the end of the beach of my home break playa Chaman which is inside the Marine whale National Park, my dad a long with many local artisanal fisherman in town would gather to engage on some fishing nights and once in while I would see some guys going out to paddle the out break, and would always wondered what were they doing, "you know I was born at the beach in where i was raised, but you know the closest thing to a surfboard I would say was the kids who come in a vacation from the capital which is San Jose, and maybe the flat boards looking like logs at the beach that would get drifted by the tides during swells.
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Wasn't until 2004 I would see what surfboard was, by then my parents would have move inland still near the beach but my interest at that point was more about selling goods along the beach in holidays or during the community events that would take place at the public soccer field. Fast forward to 2006 my parents move out of town to a much more inland location, would be 2008 i would find myself with close to the 18 years old found a friend of the family which his son used to bring boards he then offered me the surfboard so I made my first step in to the surf journey.
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2011 I found myself looking up to pro surfers with
little internet access and basic English I had,
so much I wanted to compete so I work as hard as
I could to be better and would be out as much as I
could to understand surfing.
Fast forward in to 2013 I would find myself on my 3rd competition
of what I would say my "goal" I think that was the hardest of all
the years because understood that competitive surfing was not
what I wanted to do the desire to do something else grew slowly
as understood surfing and is components, I know that would had
a harder end, no because of lack of effort but coming a very humble
beginnings my chances to make through a competitive world where
the challenges a side from being emotional, physically and competitive
I knew that the support was going to be low, since surfing was not
back then, not even slightly close to be a life long career.
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