Name: Max Catasus

DOB: 1/17/1993

Hometown: Melbourne, Fl

Board of choice: Siren, Relience, Untitled, Choclate

Sponsors: DC, Neff, and Catalyst skate shop

Favorite place to ride: The Park, and Eastwood skatepark

Favorite Scripture Verse: Philippians 3:7-9

On my playlist: Canton Jones, Tripp Lee, Ascend the Hill, Hillsong, Aaron Gilspee, Jack johnson, Lecare

My Story: I grew up in a Christian home with two solid parents who raised me in the church and in the word. I met the skateboard when i was five, but I didn’t really do anything with it until I was eight. But as soon as I started skating I didn’t want to quit.  As I progressed I started to get a few sponsors. I began filming, going on some trips, and sadly I began falling away from the very Truths that I had known all of my life. When I was 14 I ran away from the Lord. I began doing drugs, partying, sleeping with girls. I thought I was living the dream, but before I knew it, my life was in the dumps. I no longer had peace in my life. Everything I was doing was bringing me down and I couldn’t find fulfillment in anything. I came to the point in my life that I was so broken inside and I knew trying to fulfill the desire my heart was craving was impossible. That desire I felt was a need to know God. When I was 16 I gave my life to Jesus Christ. I fully surrendered all of myself. I stand/skate today as changed person and a follower of Christ. I am traveling to Peru and doing skate ministry there, I am helping to lead a local skate ministry here in Melbourne, I am serving in my local Church and my ENTIRE perspective on life and skating is directed to one purpose…..To give God all the glory!