Mark Liddell

Regularfoot surfer Mark Liddell was born in 1960 in Hollywood, California. Raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Liddell first began surfing at Waikiki in 1968. Mark started surfing with best pal and fellow surfer Montgomery Kaluhiokalani in 1975. The duo not only appeared together on the cover of Surfer magazine in 1976, but also set a new small wave performance standard with their mastery of a looping 360-degree turn and were a popular fun-loving fixture on the Waikiki shore for five years. Mark began shaping surfboards in 1984 and was soon hired by the companies Blue Hawaii and Wave Riding Vehicles. Liddell went on to open his own shop Island Energy Surfboards in 1990.