“My life changed when I was 20 years old. I was a Political Science student and a novice journalist, every day wearing my suit and reading the latest political news in the newspaper.

I went to Fuerteventura for a family holiday and I randomly surfed my first wave. At that moment, I realized that something big was happening to me.

As my life evolved, I never stopped traveling for surfing and I discovered another passion that connected me with the ocean even more: freediving.

During my upper level job career in a Decathlon store in Italy, I came to Tenerife on holiday. I joined a Surf Camp and experienced feelings that I had never felt before. The connection that surfing creates among people is incredible. I fell so much in love with the island that when I came back home, it was clear to me that something was missing.

On my first day back to work, I literally escaped from the store at half of my work shift and started driving away until a red light stopped me. I realized that my whole body was stiff and that I didn’t know where I was driving to.

I asked myself what was wrong and I couldn’t find the answer. Then I asked myself where I wished to be, and the answer was clear: in the water. Two weeks later I decided to quit my whole life and come back to Tenerife to start working as a surf instructor.

1 year and a half later, I decided to start my own project: Surf Life Tenerife.

Surfing made me a happy person, and my job is to make other people happy by teaching them something that will change their life forever, as it has changed mine.”