The Truth About Jason Momoa's Legendary Surfing Background

Jason Momoa, who now makes his own line of surfboards, not only revealed how his family introduced him to the sport, but also touched on the fact that he was able to help his own father learn how to paddleboard, which is a lot like surfing but involves paddling a large board instead of riding large waves.

"Even though I'm not the best surfer in the world, I did learn how to paddleboard at Makaha," Momoa said in his YouTube video. He also shared that paddleboarding offered his family something special when his father was no longer able to surf following an accident. "I had started paddleboarding and I brought it to him and that really reunited us so that we could surf together."

In his free time, Momoa also loves surfing with his own children, Lola and Nakoa-Wolf. However, it takes more than just hopping on a board to be able to enjoy the activity together. He opened up to American Way in 2017 about the fact that filming movies and being chased by paparazzi on the beach means that he has "to travel really far just to go surf with [his] kids. ... All so they can be on the ocean with their dad." 

Despite the obstacles, we're sure that Momoa's daughters appreciate every wave that they're able to catch with their famous (and obviously caring) father.

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