Adam comes straight out of the meiting pot of Coolangatta, where he grew up with close friends Mick fanning,Joel Parkinson and Dean Morrison and the rest of the CK7 (the Cooly kids),With such a hardened rroup of competitors, Adam turned his back on full time competition,and headed straight to the DHD factory to try his hand at shaping. At 17 years old, Adam(affectionately known as Sparrow) started sweeping floors and packing surfboards, which eventually led him to the profiling of blanks where he continued to pick up skills. With Australia's best shapers as his mentors and the country's hottest young surfers as his test pilots, Sparrow fast became "THE"shaper on the coast.