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Thomas Edward Blake (March 8, 1902 – May 5, 1994) was an American athlete, inventor, and writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential surfers in history, and a key figure in transforming surfing from a regional Hawaiian specialty to a nationally popular sport. [1]
Tom Blake grew up in Washburn and lived an extraordinary, unorthodox life. His innovations almost a century ago changed surfing forever. Wisconsin native influenced the modern-day sport of surfing
Rhonda Harper (USA) Surfer and surf coach, founder of Black Girls Surf; Paige Hareb (NZ) Peter Harris (1958– ) (Aus) Won the 1980 Stubbies as a rookie; Chelsea Hedges (1983– ) (Aus) 2005 world title holder; Fred Hemmings (Haw) 1968 World Champion; Coco Ho (1991– ) (Haw) Women's ASP World Tour surfer, Michael Ho's daughter
Surfabout was a surfing competition held annually in Sydney, Australia between 1974 and 1991 [citation needed]. It was sponsored by Coca-Cola and radio station 2SM and hence called the Coke Surfabout or the Coke/2SM Surfabout. The contest was run in late Autumn, after the Bells Beach Classic at Easter.
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The American surfer Tom Blake was the first to experiment with adding a fin to a surfboard, fastening the keel from an old speedboat to a surfboard in 1935. [8] About one or two years later, Woody "Spider" Brown independently developed a similar design, but Brown himself gave Blake precedence: "(I made my first surfboard keel) about '36 or '37 ...
Channel 9's engineers threatened to go on strike in 1951, leading Anthony to sell the station to the General Tire and Rubber Company in August of that year. [12] A few months earlier, General Tire had purchased the Don Lee Broadcasting System, a regional West Coast radio network (the original Don Lee television station, KTSL (channel 2), was sold separately to CBS; it evolved into future ...
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