A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Alexandre, João (Dapin)

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Well-traveled regularfoot surfer; represented Puerto Rico in the 1968 and 1970 World Surfing Championships. Bloomquist was born (1951) in Camden, New Jersey, the son of an engineer father and a teacher mother. As a child, Bloomquist and his family lived in Venezuela and Argentina, before landing in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1964, when Bloomquist was 13. He got his first surfboard that year. Just a few weeks later, Mark Sedlack of Hawaii, another young teenaged surfer, arrived in San Juan, and the two transplants began surfing together daily. Two years later, Sedlack would later move back to Hawaii and become one of the state's best junior division surfers.

At age 17, Bloomquist made the Puerto Rican team for the 1968 World Surfing Championships, which were held that year in Puerto Rico. Boomquist by that time was on the Hobie Surfboards team and had spent the previous summer living and surfing in Southern California. Two years later, he won the Puerto Rio Surfing Championships and qualified for the 1970 World Championships, held in Victoria, Australia. Native-born Puerto Rican Jorge Machuca also competed in both events; the two of them spent a month traveling the East Coast of Australia in search of waves.

Bloomquist moved to Florida in 1972, graduated from Jacksonville University in 1974, and made a career in high-end foreign car sales.

Bloomquist, Ricky

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