Tom Sims, a new skate and snowboard pioneer and former world champion who helped snowboarding to the masses that push the ski resorts to embrace the emerging sport in 1980, has died. I 'was 61.
The founder of skateboard and snowboard Sims Sims died Wednesday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after suffering a heart attack, said his sister, Margie Sims Klinger.
"It was the godfather of all sports facilities," said Michael Brooke, publisher of specific wavelength, Friday.
"He has literally helped build the skate professionally, and was one of the giants in the history of snowboarding."
Pat Bridges, editor of Snowboarder, Sims said, "is not only a pioneer of snowboarding, but also popularized what came to be known as the lifestyle of action sports. Had a different modus for a good while standing sideways, depending on the season. "
As Brooke said, "I was an only child of a company that sells these things. Seen you."
"It was the first true pioneer of what is called the longboard - a skateboard over 4 feet long," said Brooke. "I ride longboard great for cruising and hills. Was doing this way before anyone else. Would like to take this type of waves and feel put there to skate."
A transplant from New Jersey, who was also a surfer and wakeboarding, Sims moved to Santa Barbara in 1971 and began participating and winning skateboarding competitions, including the World skateboard.
"It's become someone who all the kids looked up to and wanted to emulate wanted his paintings," Sister Sims' he said. "Then I realized I had such a demand, he founded a company and started producing products. Skateboard His specialty was 4 meters long, it has begun to do the same."
A few years after the release of The Sims skateboards in the mid 70's, Sims Snowboards was founded.
Sims, who became world champion of snowboarding in 1983, was responsible for the creation of early snowboarding halfpipe in the snow and used in competition, Lake Tahoe, and the first snow permanent halfpipe at a ski resort, Snow Summit in Big Bear Lake.
"Not only will support this activity," said Bridges, "has changed the perception of people born in this sport, a complex time."
He was also the main trick snowboard Roger Moore in the James Bond movie 1985 "A View to a Kill".
In an interview in 1995 Snowboarder Magazine, Sims said: "The world has woken up and realized that the best and the most pleasant way a mountain is a table of snowboard Before 1985, I have requested the owner of a ski out. precious the chairlifts. himself kind that started on the hill for 10 years, now ask me a card for her grandson. "
Born in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 1950, Sims moved to the East Coast when he was 2 years old, and his family settled in Haddonfield, New Jersey when he was 6 years old.
While visiting his grandparents in Los Angeles during the summer of 1960, saw his first skate Sims when he saw half a dozen guys rolling on the sidewalk.
"I was absolutely in transit," said Ola concrete in November. He begged his father to buy him a skateboard in Sears and "from that day I experienced my skate. Loved beyond imagination. Before the end of the second day was as good as any of the boys out there on the sidewalk. I just found something I really loved to do. "
In 1963, Sims built his first surfboard thin snow in his school shop class half-notch. Called a "skiboards".
"I was trying to solve a dilemma that I had," he told National Public Radio in 1998. "I could not skate on roads covered with snow in winter in southern New Jersey. And the easiest solution was to make a skateboard for snow."
In addition to his sister, Sims is survived by his wife, Hillary, their children, Sarah, Tommy and Shane, and their daughters, Alexa and Kylie Wagner.
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