Timmy Curran

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This article is about the surfer. For the rugby union footballer, see Tim Curran (rugby player).

Tim Curran (born August 14, 1977) is a musician, retired professional surfer and a spokesperson for the Surfrider Foundation. During his successful surfing career, he was one of the best surfers on the World Championship Tour, and was consistently in contention for the world championship. Despite his success and popularity, he remained one of the most affable and well-regarded surfers on the tour, a trait he attributed to his "Christian faith and belief in God". [1]

Curran was raised and still resides in the Silver Strand Beach neighborhood of Oxnard in Southern California, just outside of Los Angeles.[2] He was born in the San Fernando Valley, but spent some of his childhood in the southern Riverside County city of Temecula. Temecula is roughly an hour from the ocean, so at age 5 his father started driving him to the beach every weekend and taught him to surf. [3] He obtained his first sponsorship at age eleven from McCrystal Surfboards and was competing as a professional surfer by age sixteen. [4]

He is considered to be the pioneer of surfing's "Aerial Revolution" of the late 1990s, and is famous for completing a full rotation, upside-down flip in two-foot surf at Rocky Point in Hawaii during winter of 2005. This popular aerial achievement has become known worldwide as simply "The Flip".

You can view a video of The Flip, and a photo documentary with commentary by Tim Curran at Surfline.

[edit] External links

• Tim Curran's website
• Tim Curran's MySpace