{"id":8908,"date":"2018-04-11T01:52:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T01:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bellarinetimes\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2018-04-17T07:33:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T07:33:29","slug":"at-home-with-michael-di-sciascio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bellarinetimes\/real-estate\/at-home-with-michael-di-sciascio\/","title":{"rendered":"At home with Michael Di Sciascio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Di Sciascio has deep roots in Torquay\u2019s surfing history.<\/h2>\n

Moving to the coastal town as a teenager, Mike landed a job as a shaper with Strapper \u2013 which has been making surfboards in Torquay since the 1960s \u2013 soon after and eventually became owner of the business in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n

Now director of Strapper, Mike still shapes surfboards and the company remains a fixture of the local surf industry, with its headquarters and surfboard factory in Torquay and retail outlets in Geelong, Ocean Grove and Aireys Inlet.<\/p>\n

My Coastal Home visited Mike and his partner Jenny (pictured top right) at their Jan Juc home, which recently hosted WSL surfers and locals for the Hurley Team Strapper party (seen in the \u201cTall fescue grass\u201d picture).<\/p>\n

Born<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was born in Bendigo and then I moved to Geelong, and then when I was 15, left school and left home and moved down here. Basically, all I wanted to do was go surfing.<\/p>\n

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Family<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been partners with Jenny for six years. My ex-wife and I had two children: Koko\u2019s 20, Lily\u2019s 18, and they\u2019re both at university. I\u2019ve got four brothers and a sister. Surfing, Torquay and family have been very good to me. From my point of view, there\u2019s a responsibility from that: I\u2019ve had really good success, so you\u2019ve got to not just be a taker but be a contributor.<\/p>\n

Strapper<\/strong><\/p>\n

I started working at Strapper (in 1979) and I ended up buying the business (in 1989) \u2013 I\u2019ve always worked hard but I worked really hard then, I embraced the change and took on new challenges. I did an extreme amount of travel in the \u201890s \u2013 some for surfing but mostly work \u2013 and your vision just goes like that (spreads arms) and you start to see over the horizon rather than being stuck in the time you\u2019re in, and that really was the university degree I didn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n

Torquay when the Rip Curl Pro is on<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s nowhere like it, and it\u2019s still really small, really tight, really community-focused \u2013 even today was (during the men\u2019s and women\u2019s finals). We were in the Rip Curl stand today, and I\u2019m looking around and 80 per cent of the faces, I might not have known the faces, because there\u2019s younger crew, but everyone there I could go \u201coh yeah, that person\u2019s there, that person\u2019s there\u201d. The whole surf community here is really small, and everyone knows everyone.<\/p>\n

Holidays<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was going to say 90 per cent, but it\u2019s probably 100 per cent surfing-related. We don\u2019t do much (outside surfing), other than the snow. We snowboard at Hotham; I\u2019ve been snowboarding for over 20 years.<\/p>\n

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Torquay Boardriders Club life membership<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been part of the club since the \u201880s. I was president for three or four years, and made a life member in 2000. It\u2019s a huge honour. Some of the things that are in the Boardriders now, like the life memberships and the Australia Day single fin comp, all started when I was president. The club was in a bit of a transition phase (at the time) and we held it together.<\/p>\n

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\nEmpty family wine bottles<\/strong><\/p>\n

My brother had a trade as boilermaker, got a couple of degrees, then reinvented himself as a winemaker and is doing really well. Valentino was my dad, and his nickname was Wally. I\u2019ve got some of these bottles dating back to 2004. Some of these vintages, only family can get. These are not worth a cent, but they\u2019re worth everything to me.<\/p>\n

Norfolk pine<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a bit of a thing about trees. We have a Norfolk pine in the back yard, and another one in the front yard. It was here 50 years ago, so it\u2019s really old. In Australian beach culture, Norfolk pines are part of it. My whole thing is surf, beach and lifestyle, that\u2019s number one; and the tree ties into it.<\/p>\n

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Surfboard shed<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are just my boards. I use two or three all the time, but all of them I use, and I\u2019ll never sell any of them. You know Bells \u201981, when it was the really big swell? I rode that (the board he\u2019s holding) when I was 16 at Winkipop, and I was the second or third guy in the water, which is kinda scary when you look at the board. Most of these are current \u2013 these are to surf, the collectibles are in storage.<\/p>\n

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Tall fescue grass<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s 95 per cent tall fescue. The grass here undulates and it mirrors my memory of Torquay Caravan Park when I was 15 or 16. With the house, having a yard was really important, so the smallest part of the house is the ground floor. You do stuff (to the lawn) weekly, but it\u2019s not a lot of effort, it\u2019s pretty fun \u2013 except for when the Jan Juc Grass Growers Guild comp is coming up. I\u2019m a three-time winner for this size of lawn (small lawn under 200 metres) in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Di Sciascio has deep roots in Torquay\u2019s surfing history. Moving to the coastal town as a teenager, Mike landed a job as a shaper with Strapper \u2013 which has been making surfboards in Torquay since the 1960s \u2013 soon after and eventually became owner of the business in the late 1980s. Now director of […]<\/p>\n

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