2| Evan Geiselman
Birthday: August 31, 1993
Hometown: New Smyrna, Florida

There are a lot of people on the Eastern Seaboard with eyes on Evan Geiselman, eagerly anticipating his ascension to a more global stage. Born into a family of surfers, he’s been showing up on the beach since he was a baby. And today, while his dad still shapes all of his boards and his older brother, Eric, is quickly establishing himself as one of America’s best junior surfers, Evan’s already developed a reputation as possibly the single most stylish waverider younger than 13. “He makes it look so easy,” says Luke Davis, who knows Geiselman’s surfing well. “He surfs like Rob Machado.” A member of the USA surf team, domestically Geiselman’s already credited with numerous competitive successes, most notably as the ’04 NSSA mini-grom champ. But what stands out about Geiselman’s not what he’s won, but how he’s won it. The miniature goofyfooter possesses an intuitive, seemingly second-nature ability to link every section of the wave together into one, long, complete narrative. Thanks to his own penchant for power, and perhaps a little inspiration from two senior Florida goofys, C.J. and Damien Hobgood, Geiselman’s rail work is well defined. And his rock-solid, high-performance act is a given.