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Andrew James Martinez, the 15 year old from a small town in New York to an inspirational superstar surfer throughout the country. Martinez has withdrawed many hardships throughout his career. And faced them all alone. This wonderful man has been a nation wide inspiration to all surfers. Suffering several major shark attacks, and many surfing incidents Martinez still manages to pull through with his outstanding surfing abilities. Martinez has won more than 150 gold medal surfing trophies and has been training all his life for the Hawaiian surf off, this will later lead him to practice for his dream of being an Olympic gold medalist surfer. And from the reactions of the judges of the Texas state championship surfers, Debra Tormhin, John Peterson, and last but not least Jay DiMartino himself, they most certainly agree. Unfortunately, Andrew's Olympic surfer dreams will have to be postponed due to a terrible accident he has been in while dirt biking. Sadly, Martinez is now a paraplegic and has been told several times that he will never surf again. But that doesn't stop him, during an interview with him and his close surfing rookie, Jason Moore, Martinez tells us, '' Besides my girlfriend, Hannah, surfing is the most important thing in my life and I am not going to push my dreams aside just because I'm injured, an injury is no excuse to stop doing what you love."' Depite Andrew's devastating injury, loss of all his family members, coming off the streets of New York, and arising his talents out of absolute nowhere, he still manages to be a country wide inspiration to all people. And inspiration he certainly is.