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Tom Blake is widely described as one of the most significant figures in the history of surfing: for his athletic achievements, for his innovations in board design, for his success in popularizing the sport, and for his role in pioneering what came to be known as “the surfing life.”
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
Ray Bisschop (1970– ) (Aus) Publisher of Australia's Surfing Life and presenter of Surfing Life TV; Jesse Brad Billauer (1979– ) (USA) Quadriplegic surfer; Tom Blake (1902–1994) (USA) Early American Surfer, inventor of the Skeg [6] Alana Blanchard (USA) (1990– ) Women's Pipeline Championship winner
On a similar basis, surfing history could justifiably be divided between pre-polystyrene and post-polystyrene surfboards, or pre-fin and post-fin as the original Hawaiian boards did not have fins until Tom Blake added one in 1935. Technology has changed surfing repeatedly and dramatically throughout its modern development, generally making the ...
[2] According to most surfing historians, the fin was invented by Tom Blake around 1935, for the purpose of anchoring the tail and giving the surfboard direction from the tail to the tip. The fin enabled skilled surfers to walk to the front of the board without the tail skipping out from the wave.
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 ...
In 1926, Blake acquired an ancient olo surfboard from Honolulu's Bishop Museum; the board was originally 16 feet long and weighed 150 pounds. In an effort to replicate the structure of the olo board, Blake drilled holes in a redwood blank and sealed the top of with wood with sheets of veneer , effectively creating the first “hollow ...
One of them is Tom Scott, someone whom YouTube fans like to call an “OG YouTuber” — referring to an “original” creator who has been posting on the platform since its inception. Scott ...