He owns a national swimming record, was a fierce motocross racer when he was “younger” and now is on the verge of becoming the latest celebrity surfer on the East Coast.<\/p>\n
Meet Luke Marks, 53 inches and 70 pounds of compact firepower.<\/p>\n Shaggy-haired and freckled-faced, the recently graduated fourth grader from Melbourne Beach always seems to be a step ahead of everyone else. He even came into this world a few weeks earlier than doctors had planned, 10 years ago.<\/p>\n “A lot of kids his age don’t have his physical abilities,” said former pro surfer John Holeman, who pioneered the aerial-360 maneuver, landing on the cover of Surfing magazine in 1990. “He has a lot of natural talent in …\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He owns a national swimming record, was a fierce motocross racer when he was “younger” and now is on the verge of becoming the latest celebrity surfer on the East Coast. Meet Luke Marks, 53 inches and 70 pounds of compact firepower. Shaggy-haired and freckled-faced, the recently graduated fourth grader from Melbourne Beach always seems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13877,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions\/13877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}