Oct.
2004
Gene competed in the International Life Saving Assoc. Ocean Lifeguard
World Championships in
Viareggio Italy
representing Texas, bringing home 4 medals 1 silver and 3 bronze!
Winner
- Lifeguard division North Shore Hawaii paddleboard race from Sunset
to Waimea
Your surfing instructors are
husband and wife team Gene and Rachel Gore.
Our goal is
to provide a safe, easy and fun surfing experience
for guests of all ages and abilities to South
Padre Island, while teaching respect, knowledge
and appreciation of the ocean and beach, with zero-environmental
impact.
Surf
Instructors Gene and Rachel were married
in 1998, on surfboards in the gentle waves
of Surfside Beach, Texas. They have 2
children, 5 year old Micah and 3 year
old Melia,both kids have been surfing
regularly, well, since before they were
born since mom surfed up to 9 months pregnant!
(Kids
Surf Video Clip)
Let's
go surfing!! We love to surf and we love to
share the stoke!
South
Padre Surf Company owner and instructor
Gene Gore, a native Texan and lifetime
dedicated surfer, ocean lifeguard and
former City and County of Honolulu Ocean
Safety Officer, has dedicated his life
to surfing and lifesaving, yet his greatest
thrill is still seeing someone ride
their first wave. Gene has accumulated
an extensive history of accomplishments
in his field while pursuing his passion
for surf, he worked for the famed Hawaii
Water Patrol, trained in heavy surf
rescue with jetski/rescue sled, 3 time
winner of paddleboard races on the North
Shore of Oahu and several U.S. National
Surfing Championship Paddle races and
the Harpoon Barry Bay to Gulf Paddle
Race, selected to the 6 man Hawaiian
World Lifeguard Team, former Texas State
longboard champion and Allstar team
member, 6 time U.S. Lifesaving Association
National Competitor with medals in paddle
racing, paddleboard rescue, and 2 mile
beach run, winner of the Diamondhead
Biathlon, Galveston
Beach
Patrol (where he met his
wife and surfing partner Rachel) Senior
Lifeguard
and
Marine
Rescue RHI pilot and Jr. Lifeguard
Instructor, and Corpus Christi and
Port Aransas Beach Patrol Lifeguard.
Gene has hundreds of documented and
off-duty surf rescues, assisting and
treating injured beach patrons and
performing CPR in many real life incidents,
as well serving 8 Years as a Licensed
Texas Emergency Medical Technician
and volunteer ambulance/fireman, competed
in over 100 surfing competitions both
amateur and professional in France,
Spain, Mexico, California, Florida,
New Jersey and Hawaii, and hand shaped
nearly seven hundred custom longboards,
and competition director and judge
for the Texas Gulf Surfing Association.
Gene has taught over 3000 private
and group surfing lessons, through
Galveston College and G.C. Kid's Camp,
Moody Hospitality Institute, San Luis
Resort, Surfside Surf Camp, South
Padre Surf Co. and taught the Compaq/H.P.
Company Picnic with over 50 attending,
and recently authored the first book
on surfing in Texas "Surfing
the Texas Gulf Coast". Gene just
returned from the ILSA World Lifeguard
Championships in Viareggio Italy Sept
2004 with a team of elite guards from
Galveston Beach Patrol, where he captured
4 medals and was the top ranked American
competitor!
On May 1 2004 Gene and Rachel paddled
the entire length of the Texas Gulf
Coast,
404 miles in 19 days, as
a fundraiser for Surfrider Foundation's
coastal education program.
Although
Rachel grew up in Tennessee, it was
on her annual summer vacations to visit
her grandparents in Florida that she
discovered where her heart was...with
the ocean! To become the watergirl she
always dreamed of, she moved to the
Texas Gulf Coast where she graduated
from Texas A+M Galveston with a degree
in Maritime Admininstration, surfing
the local lineups day and night, before
and after classes. Rachel has been surfing
for 13 years now, and with every session
her love for the sport and the ocean
grows,along with her stylish smooth
surfing. Although not a competitor,
Rachel is widely known as the top female
surfer in the state (she surfs better
than most of the guys too!), and could
easily be a threat for world title if
she chose to! (on her honeymoon Rachel
entered into a women's longboard pro
contest on the North Shore at Sunset
Beach, and she took second place!) She
worked as a lifeguard for the Galveston
Beach Patrol, and was chosen as a team
member for the USLA National Lifeguarding
Competition. Rachel has been teaching
surfing for nine years, teaching through
Galveston College, the Galveston College
Kids Camp, The Moody Hospitality Institute,
San
Luis Resort,
Goreboards
Surfside Surf Camps, and South Padre
Surf Co. Rachel
has won first place in numerous state
wide surfing competitions and placed
second in a pro/am competition at Sunset
Beach on the North Shore of Hawaii.
She won first place in the women's division
for the 8 mile Harpoon Barry Bay and
Gulf Paddle Challenge.
Her
favorite thing about teaching surfing
is being able to share her knowledge
of the sport with people who have the
same dreams she did, and watching their
"stoke" as they stand up and
ride their very first wave.
