Former Pro Surfer Teaches Hope with Grace Christian

Former pro surfer, Seth Elmer, talks about his life now mentoring disadvantaged youth and providing those in recovery a sense of hope and direction through his training program that was developed out of a desire to be of service.  During his last two years as a pro surfer, Elmer raised funds for surfers who suffered spinal cord injuries.  What came out of that experience was a desire to help others in his community.  He eventually started a program mentoring disadvantaged youth and teaching them to surf.  Through their stories and difficulties, he was motivated to develop a training program that gave them, and eventually those in recovery, a way to acknowedge what they were experiencing and come to know a new way to live.  These training programs are compiled in a workbook that will be sold on Amazon in the future. Elmer also discussed his work as a writer and poet, and read one of his poems from a book of poems about love entitled "The Flower Is You:  Love Poems by Seth Elmer".  This book will be available on Amazon later this year.

Seth Elmer started surfing at age 5 while growing up in Newport Beach, CA.  He became a pro surfer at age 17, and began using street drugs as well.  He eventually healed his life and decided to use his position as a pro surfer to help others who had been injured surfing.  Later, as a surf instructor, he began mentoring disadvantaged youth in Hawaii, which led to a training program that is now being used with those in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.  Elmer has always been a writer and poet and has a book of poetry coming out in the near future.