Like so many in the action sports industry, Danielle Beck’s career started in retail. Her hometown shop, Moondoggies in San Luis Obispo, California, gave Beck her first taste of the business side of surfing and helped launch the career of one the most influential women in action sports.
After a trip to San Diego to visit a friend, Beck decided she’d had enough of the cold waters of SLO and transferred out of Cal Poly to move to SoCal, where she began teaching surf lessons at the well-known Paskowitz Surf Camp in San Clemente.
During her first summer at the camp twelve years ago … Details