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Scratching the Horizon a Surfing Memoir by Izzy Paskowitz

SCRATCHING THE HORIZON: A SURFING MEMOIR

“There is a wisdom in the wave, highborn and beautiful, for those who would but paddle out.”

– Hawaiian proverb, pinched from the author’s father, Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz, who’s been passing it off as his own for just about forever.

This is how Izzy Paskowitz begins Scratching the Horizon his memoir that dives into his experiences as a child. Izzy continues to give back to and progress the lifestyle most of us take for granted, running the Paskowitz Surf Camp and nonprofit organization Surfers Healing.

IZZY PASKOWITZ has competed in, and won, dozens of longboard titles, including the 1988 Hang Ten World Championship. He and his wife, Danielle, own and operate the world-famous Paskowitz Surf Camp. They also run the nonprofit organization Surfers Healing, which offers free surfing day camps to hundreds of autistic children and their families each year. Paskowitz lives with his family in San Juan Capistrano, California. 

DANIEL PAISNER is the co-writer of eleven New York Times bestsellers, including Serena Williams's On the Line and Denzel Washington's A Hand to Guide Me, as well as the acclaimed Holocaust memoir, The Girl in the Green Sweater, with Krystyna Chiger - an international bestseller.  He lives in Port Washington, New York, with his wife and three children.
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