Big Stick Surfing Assocation

'friendship and camraderie both in and out of the water'

Why join the club?

Big Stick provides a great opportunity to engage the surfing community in a new way. There are community service opportunities, fun events like beach barbeque's, surf movie nights, and monthly meetings. Big Stick is both a freesurfing club and a competition club. We also host numerous clinics to improve your technique and a fun scrimmage in December to get a no-pressure introduction to competition as well as our classic surfboard contest, the Logjam every April. Our membership ranges from professional surfers to beginners and from 9 years old to 75.

How To Join

Big Stick memebership is extremely coveted and difficult to achieve given the qualifications required. If you feel up to the challenge, please come to a Big Stick event (see calendar on the home page) or contact us, info@bigsticksurfing.org, or at BSSA, PO Box 2822, Santa Cruz, CA.

Qualifications:

- the Aloha spirit must flow within (see our motto at the top)
- attend 3 events (meetings, contests, scrimmages, etc)
- pay $30 annual dues
- tell a surf story at one of our monthly All Hands meetings
- get sworn in at said meeting

If you have made it this far, then get your membership started with some paperwork, which you can review, fill out and return to us via email or USPS back to:
BSSA, PO Box 2822, Santa Cruz, CA 95063-2822
welcome message, application, event tracker and pledge

We do offer a family membership, in other words, one person in the family joins and the whole family is in!

To summarize: you need to attend 3 events (meetings, contests or scrimmages, etc), pay $30, tell a surf story at a meeting and get sworn in.

 

Club History

 

Big Stick Presidents

Mike DeGregorio (1984/86)
Peter Ochs (1986)
Jim Lucas (1987/88)
Kyle Catterlin (1989-90)
Cy Lucas (1991)
Mike Young (1992-95)
Pete Ogilvie (1996-2000)
Bruce Arthur (2000)
Butch Colyear (2001-03)
Tom Radich (2004-05)
Gioni Pasquinelli (2006-07)