TATIANA HOWARD: BORN TO WAVE ADDICTS
Pic Jerome Houyvet
Tatiana is your classic golden Hawaiian Hula girl with long-flowing blond hair and a super-relaxed, island-style personality. She’s got a super positive attitude towards pretty much everything and when she’s not tearing waves apart you can find her doing Zumba dancing classes or working hard organizing her next Butterfly Effect event.
Tatiana migrated from the U.S.A mainland to Hawaii by parents who were in search of waves. She grew up living and breathing the salt air in Hawaii’s classic surf culture style. She spent her early youth at Ho’okipa in tide pools between the lava rocks while her parents and brothers ripped it up the massive north shore swells. A shredder now herself, Tatiana is an amazingly talented surfer, wave sailor and kiter. When you watch Tatiana surf you can’t help but wonder why she hasn’t gone Pro – she’s that good.
Wave riding allows Tatiana to forget everything going on around her and at the same time it drops her into the thrill of being alive and being in the present moment. It makes Tatiana remember that there’s no other place to be that is better than the now. She loves the feeling of being connected and at one with the ocean…