Darryl Virostko

Darryl Virostko, known as Flea, was a professional big wave surfer from Santa Cruz, California, born on December 25, 1971. He is a three-time winner of the Mavericks competition and appears as himself in the surfing films Riding Giants, Step Into Liquid and Billabong Odyssey. Surfer magazine declared his 2004 wipeout on a 50-foot wave at Waimea Bay, Hawaii, the Wipeout of the Decade. A recovering addict, he runs a program called FleaHab that teaches other recovering addicts to surf, and he is the subject of the documentary The Westsiders by Josh Pomer, which follows his difficult upbringing and his addiction to drugs.