Since its relatively late entry into Nike's Chosen contest, the Wild Lyfe crew -- an East Coast hodgepodge of four surfers -- has galloped past its competition, at least in Facebook units. They've got more Likes and comments on the Chosen's platform than any other crew in North America -- surf, skate or BMX. Who? Why? How?

Today we get to know the Wild Lyfe, straight from the mouth of crew member Raven Lundy:

RAVEN LUNDY:

My name's Raven Lundy, I'm 27 years old from Virginia Beach, Virginia. I like to go surfboarding. I like to ride the waves and shred the gnar. Wild Lyfe style.

Then we got a grom in [the crew] -- he's from Virginia Beach, his name's Bryce Humphrey. Little underground kid, nobody's ever heard of him. Look him up on the iTunes. He's a hurricane with his words, and a freak on the surfboard, but he don't care about being the next Dane Reynolds or Kelly Slater or any of that. He just likes chicks and having a good time, and I don't think he's stressing about making it as a pro surfer. If he makes it -- woo hoo! But he knows how it is; we're from the East Coast. We just love surfing, and we love to party.

We picked Noah Snyder 'cause he's kind of a name over here on the East Coast, and he knows how to get shit done. He's not a full party guy, but you know, he's a great surfer and a great personality. Great barrel rider.

Then the other guy in the crew is Colin Herlihy. He lives in Delaware. Noah lives in North Carolina on the Outer Banks, and I grew up surfing down there. That's pretty much where all the Virginia Beach guys go to surf -- kind of the Mecca. But over the last few years I started going north and catching a little more long-period up there, and started working with Colin. He was a pro bodyboarder, man. He's a park ranger at the moment. He's got a little flow deal with Hurley -- he gets, like, free shirts and shit, you know? But he's another underground guy, you probably never heard of the guy.

And he's got the wild side to him -- and when I say "wild," it's not the party-type wild, it's nature. He's a park ranger. You go up there, his backyard's got a bass pond in it, and he's just a redneck, dude. That's why our crew is so different from a lot of what you see. None of us are the full pro athlete guy; none of us are making it as pro surfers. We subsidize it with something else.

That's what we do, we just love surfing whether it's f--king 30 degrees out and freezing water or 80 degrees out. We don't have the same opportunities that a lot of guys have, coming from the East Coast.