Stecyk, Craig

This unfinished page contains text from either the 2003 or 2005 print version of Encyclopedia of Surfing. An updated version, with more photos, is coming soon.

Habitually cryptic artist, photographer, and writer from Santa Monica, California; longtime contributor to Surfer and the Surfer's Journal magazines; architect of the punkish and still-echoing mid-1970s Dogtown skateboarding scene. Stecyk was born (1950) and raised in Santa Monica, and was 26 when Surfer published his 1976 article "The Curse of the Chumash," his best and best-known article, whic...

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Craig Stecyk for The Surfer's Journal. Photo: Anthony Friedkin