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April 03, 2010
California Surfing Pioneer Kit Horn Dies: Kit Horn, a surfer whose exploration of new surf spots along the California coast in the 1940s and 1950s helped the sport grow from a subculture to an international pastime, has died at age 80. Horn continued surfing at Beacon's Beach in his hometown of Encinitas until last year. He's the subject of a legendary story among surfers about big-wave surfing in 1963 using an inner tube and a bottle of wine in Lunada Bay. A custom surfboard maker in Leucadia, Calif., blogged about Horn when he visited the shop in January: "Kit Horn comes by the factory every couple of months and checks out all the boards like a stoked gremmie."
Thanks for this--I don't follow surfing, but I liked learning about Horn.
posted by Uncle Toby at 01:07 PM on April 05, 2010
He would be a "grommie" down here. "Grommie" = grommet.
RIP.
posted by owlhouse at 06:01 PM on April 05, 2010
A stoked gremmie is a "completely and intensely excited" "young or inexperienced surfer," according to Urban Dictionary.