Joel Tudor

Joel Tudor is an American surfer from San Diego, California, best known for longboarding, and also a competitive grappler. He turned professional at fourteen and won his first professional ASP event at fifteen, which made him the youngest competitor to win an ASP contest. Riding a longboard, he won the ASP Longboard World Championship in 1998 in the Canary Islands and again in 2004, and he won a third world title in 2021 at the age of forty-five. He won the U.S. Open of Longboarding eight times. Away from surfing he holds a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under the Carlson Gracie lineage and is an ADCC veteran. In 2010 he founded the Duct Tape Invitational longboard contest, and he collaborated with the photographer Michael Halsband on the book Surf Book and appears in several surf films.