Tag: Surf Legend

  • Lisa Muir

    Lisa Muir

    Lisa Muir Wakley is a legendary surfer based out of Pensacola, Florida who also competed in skateboarding. In an interview by Professor Steve Estes on southern surfing in June 2017, it was shared that Lisa “was born in 1955 on Rantoul Air Force Base in Illinois. Her dad was a hurricane hunter in the Air…

  • Linda Benson

    Linda Benson

    Linda Benson, a world champion surfer from the late 1950s and ’60s was the first woman to have a signature skateboard when Hansen Surfboards designed the “Linda Benson Model” in 1964. Benson explained to Patty Segovia and Rebecca Heller in their book Skater Girl what the early skateboards were like. “We were riding 2x4s cut…