The Paskowitz family is a family like no other consisting of Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz. Juliette Paskowitz, and their eight boys and one girl. They’re known as the first family of surfing because all they would do was surf all the time. Surfing was more than a hobby for this family it was a lifestyle. Most kids would go to school and their parents would go to work, but in the Paskowitz family the children didn’t go to school and their parents didn’t go to work. They also didn’t live in a traditional home like most families do, but instead all eleven people lived in a camper with at most twenty four cubic feet of space and they travelled from beach to beach in it. They didn’t spend a lot of time in one place because they had waves to surf and there
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The Paskowitz clan grew up without any formal education and had only knew what their father had taught them. When the kids grew up and decided to leave they had two options to either join society with no prior education about it or to live the lifestyle their father wanted them to live. Most of the paskowitz kids didn’t like the lifestyle their father gave them and left to rejoin society, but since they never got the formal education they needed to fit into society they had trouble assimilating. In the Surfwise documentary Abraham Paskowitz said that he wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a doctor. Abraham never got the formal education needed for him to get into medical school and he ultimately decided that it would take too much time for him to catch up. Many of the Paskowitz kids had to get jobs that didn’t require a formal education for them to do. For example, Adam and Josh Paskowitz brothers ended up becoming rockstars, Abraham ended up being a cook for a restaurant, and a lot of the siblings ended up working at their family’s surf camp. In an article about Navah Paskowitz it states, “On her own from the age of 15 and without any formal education, Navah supported herself by singing in a band with her brother Adam (now the lead singer of The Flys and Jetliner), modeling swimsuits, designing a women’s wetsuit line, and working summers at her family’s surf camp on a beach near San Clemente,
The Paskowitz clan grew up without any formal education and had only knew what their father had taught them. When the kids grew up and decided to leave they had two options to either join society with no prior education about it or to live the lifestyle their father wanted them to live. Most of the paskowitz kids didn’t like the lifestyle their father gave them and left to rejoin society, but since they never got the formal education they needed to fit into society they had trouble assimilating. In the Surfwise documentary Abraham Paskowitz said that he wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a doctor. Abraham never got the formal education needed for him to get into medical school and he ultimately decided that it would take too much time for him to catch up. Many of the Paskowitz kids had to get jobs that didn’t require a formal education for them to do. For example, Adam and Josh Paskowitz brothers ended up becoming rockstars, Abraham ended up being a cook for a restaurant, and a lot of the siblings ended up working at their family’s surf camp. In an article about Navah Paskowitz it states, “On her own from the age of 15 and without any formal education, Navah supported herself by singing in a band with her brother Adam (now the lead singer of The Flys and Jetliner), modeling swimsuits, designing a women’s wetsuit line, and working summers at her family’s surf camp on a beach near San Clemente,