Tom blake biography

tom blake biography

Tom Blake (surfer) - Wikipedia

  • Thomas Edward Blake 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.

    • Tom Blake - Surfline

      Thomas Edward Blake (March 8, – May 5, ) 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.

    Tom Blake - Wikipedia

      Tom Blake (March 8, May 5, ) was a larger-than-life surf pioneer, a seminal force in the history of the sport, who almost single-handedly transformed surfing from a primitive.

    He was from northern Wisconsin. But Tom Blake helped create the modern sport of surfing.

    Wisconsin is not well represented on the U.S.A.'s first-ever Olympic surfing team.

    OK — it's not represented at all. And it's no surprise the country's top surfers all come from the warm-weather ocean states of Hawaii, California and Florida. But as U.S. surfers Carissa Moore, John John Florence, Caroline Marks and Kolohe Andino attempt to make history at Tsurigasaki Beach in Japan, it's only fitting to take a look at how a guy from northern Wisconsin played a key role in developing the sport of surfing into what it is today.

    His name was Tom Blake. Handsome and athletic, innovative and enigmatic, Blake also was an ahead-of-his-time iconoclast, a kind of soft subversive thinker who questioned long-held American values and lifestyles. Much of Blake's life revolved around surfing, but he used the sport as a prism through which he dug deep into issues such health and nutrition, the importance

    Tom Blake: The Uncommon Journey of a Pioneer Waterman

      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.
    tom blake linkedin 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.
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    tom blake degrassi Blake's lifelong journey in surfing began with a most unusual coincidence.

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  • Blake was born in in Milwaukee.

    • Tom Blake - International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF)

      Blake's lifelong journey in surfing began with a most unusual coincidence.

    Tom Blake (surfer) - Wikiwand

  • Aloha and Welcome to this chapter of LEGENDARY SURFERS, detailing the life of one of surfing's greatest contributors, Tom Blake.

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  • In 1930, Blake invented the first water-housing used for surf photography.
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