Skip Frye's first board was a balsa board shaped by legend Mike Diffenderfer.
12 Facts About Skip Frye
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Skip Frye captured national titles and represented the United States team internationally in 1966.
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Skip Frye has appeared on many magazine covers including Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, The Surfer's Journal, Surfing, and Surfer Magazine.
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Skip Frye is known for his gliding, fluid style as well as creating some of the most in-demand surfboards in the world.
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Skip Frye is known for his innovation with foiled surfboard fins.
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Skip Frye has developed a moderate temperature surf wax, ideal for his native San Diego waters.
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Skip Frye is a 2006 inductee into the Surfboard Shapers Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California, in the surf pioneer category.
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In 2011 Skip Frye was honored into the Huntington Beach Walk of Fame.
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In January 2016 Skip Frye was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame for his skateboard innovation in downhill and slalom events in the early 1960's.
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In May, 2017 Skip Frye was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Diego Surf Film Festival.
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In 1990, Skip Frye married his long-time girlfriend Donna Skip Frye, and they started Harry's Surf Shop with Harry "Hank" Warner.
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Skip Frye's wife was elected as a San Diego City Councilmember in 2001 and narrowly lost the San Diego mayoral election in 2005.