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In 1992, Chris' shaping career began with a six-year apprenticeship to shaping legend, Dick Brewer (1936-2022). It was perfecting the skill of shaping boards under Brewer, and the influence of his then neighbor, Skip Frye, that solidified Chris' abilities to design and shape any size surfboard, which would later open the door to shaping big wave guns for the world's best big wave surfers.
In 1990, Frye married his long-time girlfriend Donna Frye (née Sarvis), and they started Harry's Surf Shop with Harry "Hank" Warner. His wife was elected as a San Diego City Councilmember in 2001 and narrowly lost the San Diego mayoral election in 2005. Her term ended on December 6, 2010.
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San Diego Independent School District is a public school district based in San Diego, Texas, United States. Located in Duval County, [1] a small portion of the district extends into Jim Wells County. The portion in Jim Wells County includes the western part of Loma Linda East. [2]
It is part of the San Diego Independent School District located in east central Duval County. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency. [2] In addition to San Diego, the school district, of which San Diego HS is its sole comprehensive high school, serves the western part of Loma Linda East. [3] (Springfield ...
Terry Martin (1937 – May 12, 2012) was a California surfer and surfboard shaper who worked for Hobie Surfboards, shaping more than 80,000 surfboards, including boards for surf legends such as Corky Carroll and Phil Edwards. [1] Martin grew up inland and was not exposed to surfing until later into his life.
The Z-boys began as a surf team for the Zephyr surfboard shop at Santa Monica. Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom, and Craig Stecyk opened the shop, titled Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Production Team, in 1973, and they soon begin recruiting young locals to represent them in surfing competitions. 14 year old Nathan Pratt was the first member of the team; he originally had worked in the shop as an ...
Surfboard shaping is not done so easily; it takes patience and determination to properly craft a surfboard. Starting from the room where it's crafted and finishing with its glassing process. Surfboard shapers use a shaping room to begin their craft. Usually the rooms are at least 5 m × 2 m (16 ft × 8 ft) and consist of fluorescent lights.