Surfer, Professional Skateboarder, and Professional Golfer.
He is best known as one of the original members of the 1970's Zephyr Skate Team, known as the Z-Boys. He played a key role in the innovative surf-style skating which helped revolutionize and re-invent the sport. He also played a key role in pioneering vertical skateboarding in the mid 1970's by skating in empty swimming pools, with some of his fellow Z-Boys, which was new terrain for skateboarding at the time. Many of these pool-skating sessions were documented and featured in Skateboarder Magazine in a series of articles known as the "Dogtown Articles". He was featured in two films; the documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys", and the feature film "Lords of Dogtown". He left skateboarding in the early 1980's. He went on to pursue a career as a professional golfer, where he toured South Africa and Europe. As recently as 2008, he played in the qualifying round of the U.S. Senior Open.
Cause of death was cardiac arrest.
He is best known as one of the original members of the 1970's Zephyr Skate Team, known as the Z-Boys. He played a key role in the innovative surf-style skating which helped revolutionize and re-invent the sport. He also played a key role in pioneering vertical skateboarding in the mid 1970's by skating in empty swimming pools, with some of his fellow Z-Boys, which was new terrain for skateboarding at the time. Many of these pool-skating sessions were documented and featured in Skateboarder Magazine in a series of articles known as the "Dogtown Articles". He was featured in two films; the documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys", and the feature film "Lords of Dogtown". He left skateboarding in the early 1980's. He went on to pursue a career as a professional golfer, where he toured South Africa and Europe. As recently as 2008, he played in the qualifying round of the U.S. Senior Open.
Cause of death was cardiac arrest.
Surfer, Professional Skateboarder, and Professional Golfer.
He is best known as one of the original members of the 1970's Zephyr Skate Team, known as the Z-Boys. He played a key role in the innovative surf-style skating which helped revolutionize and re-invent the sport. He also played a key role in pioneering vertical skateboarding in the mid 1970's by skating in empty swimming pools, with some of his fellow Z-Boys, which was new terrain for skateboarding at the time. Many of these pool-skating sessions were documented and featured in Skateboarder Magazine in a series of articles known as the "Dogtown Articles". He was featured in two films; the documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys", and the feature film "Lords of Dogtown". He left skateboarding in the early 1980's. He went on to pursue a career as a professional golfer, where he toured South Africa and Europe. As recently as 2008, he played in the qualifying round of the U.S. Senior Open.
Cause of death was cardiac arrest.
He is best known as one of the original members of the 1970's Zephyr Skate Team, known as the Z-Boys. He played a key role in the innovative surf-style skating which helped revolutionize and re-invent the sport. He also played a key role in pioneering vertical skateboarding in the mid 1970's by skating in empty swimming pools, with some of his fellow Z-Boys, which was new terrain for skateboarding at the time. Many of these pool-skating sessions were documented and featured in Skateboarder Magazine in a series of articles known as the "Dogtown Articles". He was featured in two films; the documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys", and the feature film "Lords of Dogtown". He left skateboarding in the early 1980's. He went on to pursue a career as a professional golfer, where he toured South Africa and Europe. As recently as 2008, he played in the qualifying round of the U.S. Senior Open.
Cause of death was cardiac arrest.
