About

I was born in in the dry part of New Jersey in 1972. My father, Alexander, is an architect and frustrated golfer. My mother, Irene, is my favorite cook on earth. Their’s was a storybook romance, the highlight of it being my birth. I was preceded by my two lovely sisters, Suzanne and Jennifer.

Aside from being artists and designers, my parents are also adventurers, so I grew-up all over the planet. Eventually, we settled in Largo, Florida, which was a great place to grow up. We lived a few miles from the beach, which was better for fishing and snorkeling than surfing…most of the Gulf of Mexico’s waves came from winter cold fronts and summers hurricanes.

I discovered surfing during one of my summer beach outings for some snorkeling that turned out to be a “surf” session on my inflatable one man dive boat, which I ended-up popping before the day was done. Needless to say -I was hooked on the sensation of the waves pushing me to the beach with little or no effort at all on my behalf…I was stoked! From then on I would look for the wave-creating storms and winds that made waves on the Gulf, so I could practice my surfing skills, no board, just that inflatable boat!

My beloved, sister Sue caught wind of my new found wave-riding experiences and bought me a Morey body board. The only glitch was I could not even come close to standing up on it like I could on my small one-man inflatable! I endured a year of belly boarding until my 14th birthday rolled around (August of 1986), and with it the surprise of a brand new Caster-V Quad fin surfboard, from Sue again! I owe my sister’s generosity and love of surfing (or would that be surfers, Sue?), as it helped me achieve what I have today.

I was Super Stoked now!! I was in love, from the first sight of this surfboard I was genuinely fascinated by its mystical, shiny, sparkly perfection! The first time my mom drove me and my new board to the beach there were waves, although only knee to waist high, it was very clean, and a whole gang of dolphins showed up to share my new found affection…pretty magical! I still remember it! It’s a very cool memory to say the least.

Anyhow, the way I remember it I was still in the midst of a growth spurt and avidly surfing, or at least, avidly practicing my surfing skills. I remember I had a really squatty stance, which, after seeing it in a few pictures, I quickly tried to change. I was the typical 80’s shop rat…hanging out at Mike Moore’s surf shop, absorbing all I could of the surfing life!

I suppose a turning point came when my friend Micah Weaver invited me to hang out at his Mom and Dad’s place in Seminole, where he was going to shape my first custom Blue Wave Surfboard. This was probably early 1988. However, instead of Micah shaping my board, I did !! Granted, this was in an open air carport style shaping room with a Black and Decker planer, but for some reason he let me go with it. Thanks Micah!!

From that first board, I essentially hacked-out of nothing, I was hooked. From there I quickly realized, as did all my friends, that I had a pretty good eye and feel for board design. By my senior year of high school (1991), I was driving to Clark Foam in Melbourne, Florida EVERY weekend to pick up foam. By that time, I was shaping and building my B.A.T. Boards on the side of my friend Steve Monk’s house across the street from our high school. After I graduated Seminole High School, I attended our local Junior College for a semester and then moved to the East coast of Florida in the summer of 1992 - to be more near Clark Foam in Brevard County. I have lived here ever since.
After getting my AA Degree from Saint Petersburg College, and a short stint for higher education at University of Central Florida, I started my company Brian A.Tudor Surf Design in 1995. I was 23. College was great, but I knew where I belonged and wanted to be, and I’ve never looked back.

I am now 35 and more focused than ever, I have 2 beautiful daughters and plenty of responsibility for sure! I have traveled around the world living and building boards in such places as Hawaii, Costa Rica, France, California, and recently Brazil with Viking Surfboards. I have collaborated and worked with fellow international surf board designers and manufactures like Patrick Mulhern, Larry Pope, Matt Biolos, Mike Diffenderfer, Clay Lyels, Christian Wolthers, Jeff Bushman, Tommy Maus, Rich Price, Matt Keckele, Jeff Klugal, Jeff Haney, Glenn Hawks, Otis Schaper, Greg Loehr, Sammy Barker, Glenn Klugel and Todd Pinder to name a few. I have personally shaped over 12000 surfboards for surfers and surf shops all over the world from Japan to France, all coast lines of the USA, Central America and the South Pacific. Some of the more notables professional surfers I’ve designed and shaped boards for include Shea and Cory Lopez, CJ Hobgood, Todd Morcom, Jeff Meyers, CT Taylor, Ben Bourgeois, Jeremy Saukel, Justin Brown, Phillip Waters, Dylan Graves, Otto Flores, Alejandro Morano, Peter Mendia, Jeff Hambrect, Ryan Briggs, Justin and Blake Jones, Sean Tubbs, Tommy O’brien, Josh Wilson, Jason Apparicio, Mark Holder, Scott Bouchard and a quad fish, last winter, for Andy Irons. With all his in mind, i am essentially that kid who wouldn’t give up the dream of letting the ocean push him as far as he can be pushed, i think i feel more comfortable knowing something else, like the oceans energy with all its incomprehensible power, is the fuel for what drives me, all i know is I would never be where I am today without my family and friends …