Asked the differences between young and old surfers, he said, "Guys in their 20s do aerial maneuvers".
It's also full of expectation that all those 110-year old surfers will be logging in too, as the registration offers you a birth year right back to 1900.
In the corner by the rest rooms, the old surfers, regulars here, gathered to talk shop and knock back the stronger beers, the double-hopped and the barley wines.
Speaking after a 24 year old surfer, Ben Linden, was bitten in half by a "massive" shark on Saturday, the state's Fisheries Minister, Norman Moore, said the spate of fatal attacks was "cause for great alarm".
He's a laconic old surfer, someone who seems permanently chilled, almost vague, the sort of dude you can imagine as a teenager reading the album sleeve of Pink Floyd's The Wall and going, "yeah man, this is the sheeeeeet".
He felt indicted by all the other people in this teeming place: by the parents and their smug happiness, by the old surfer dudes, who had the courage of their lack of conviction, and by the young lovers, who were convinced that they would never be part of either of these groups, not the obnoxious parents, not the grizzled losers clinging to youth like tough, crusty barnacles.
Barefoot and broad shouldered in long gray carpenter shorts and a t-shirt that said vibrations, he looked like a sweet old surfer.
Many of the older surfers have been surfing since they were teenagers.
For his own models for aging well, Mark looks to older surfers — he calls them "elders".
One problem for older surfers is that while their minds are willing, their bodies may beg to differ.
Each year, the Jersey Shore chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, an international surfing organization, holds a longboard surfing contest, limited to the kind of boards — generally nine-foot or longer — preferred by older surfers.
