Ben Mondy has turned 40, but looks significantly older. He grew up in Redhead, a beach in Newcastle, Australia and decided not to use his Economics Degree after becoming Deputy Editor for Tracks magazine, a post he held from from 2000-2006. He moved to the UK in 2006 to become a partner in All Conditions Media, a content and communications agency and continued to write for most of the world’s biggest surf publications including Surfer, Surfing, Surfer’s Journal, Surfline and Tracks among others. In 2011 he relcoated to Biarritz, taking his disastrous French and love of heaving beachie barrels to the next level. In France he has continued to write for a range of editorial platforms as well as for various action sports brands and also produced a couple of video series for EpicTV among others. He has a wife, two kids and and ongoing passion for the ocean and those that enter it.