It's the most free, spiritual thing you could think of.

But, once when you get a wave it's incredible just to see the colors come off the waves off the board.

Every time I look down when I'm night surfing and I see that lit up board I go, my dad created this.

This is me and my dad.

My name is Sean Johnson.

I'm a surfer and a surf coach out of L.A. and I started surfing because of my dad.

My dad would take me out, he'd be surfing and I'd be boogie boarding in the white water.

One day he's like, “Do you want to jump on?”

And I'm like, “Yeah, let's go.”

Threw me on the nose of his surfboard and caught some waves and I was like, “Dad, I want to do this.”

So we'd be leaving the beach and all of a sudden he'd be like, “Hey, look at that board in the trash can.”

And I'd be like, “Yeah, look at that board in the trash can.”

And he goes “No, that's your new board.”

I would get boards out of the trash at Malibu.

Bring him home, strip all the fiberglass off of them.

Get in there, reshape the whole board the way I thought Sean would like to ride it.

He would get out there and test my prototypes and say, “You know, I really don't like this one.”

or “this one's great.”

Kind of sucks for me that I don't surf anymore.

But at the same time when I'm shaping these boards, I feel like I'm surfing.

He does it all by hand.

And that's the part that makes me enjoy surfing them so much cause I know how much love and how much heart is put into these boards.

In L.A. the surfing is really crowded,

and I always thought that it would be great to surf at night, but it's kind of scary out there at the night.

I figured why not put some LEDs in a board to where you can just get out there and surf as long as you want without the crowds.

As far as I know, my dad is the only one making LED surfboards in the United States.

Maybe once a month when there's a full moon we go night surfing.

We cruise down to the beach,

and it's just like old times when we'd go surfing but now we're sharing that night time and he gets to enjoy me surfing something he created.

And I get to enjoy riding something he made.

Game time, boys.

The best thing about night surfing is you get out there, it's quiet, and it's kind of mysterious.

My biggest fear is maybe falling, knocking my head and getting knocked out and no one being able to find me.

So the cool part with having those LED light boards attached to you, you kind of always be found or spotted.

I think people are absolutely amazed when they see the light boards at night time.

What are these flying light things in the ocean right now?

I feel like I'm an alien freakin' flying on a huge space ship.

Well surfing's really a bond between Sean and I.

I mean, you know, it's just so much fun watching him out there surf.

You know, now that I can't be out there with him surfing, to see him out there in the water,

tearing these boards up, you know,

it makes you feel really really proud.

If I couldn't surf, let alone surf on my dad's surfboards, I don't know what I would do.

It reminds me of why I fell in love with surfing so much.