{"id":19491,"date":"2010-11-10T12:49:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T20:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19491"},"modified":"2010-11-10T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:22:07","slug":"rip-phillip-flippy-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=19491","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Phillip &#8220;Flippy&#8221; Hoffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cem-2200-flippy-book-P147.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cem-2200-flippy-book-P147.jpg','popup','width=639,height=900,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cem-2200-flippy-book-P147-tm.jpg\" height=\"281\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Cem 2200 Flippy Book P147\" \/><\/a>We learned today from a <strong>Scott Hulet<\/strong> story on <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfersjournal.com\/journal_entry\/phillip-flippy-hoffman-1930-2010\" target=\"_blank\">The Surfer&#8217;s Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong> that big wave surfer and industry legend <strong>Phillip &#8220;Flippy&#8221; Hoffman<\/strong> died early this morning (November 10, 2010) in Mission Viejo, California. Hoffman had reportedly been battling &#8220;unspecified pulmonary issues.&#8221; He was 81.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Born in Glendale, California in 1930, Flippy (as the surfing world knows him) was a member of the first wave of California surfers to chase big Hawaiian surf in the 1950s. Along with his roommate, <strong>Bob Simmons<\/strong>, Hoffman was the first mainland surfer to take up residence on the North Shore of Oahu. . . Along with his brother, <strong>Walter Hoffman<\/strong>, Flippy owned and operated <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoffmanfabrics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hoffman California Fabrics<\/a><\/strong>, a custom textile house supplying California surf brands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Hoffmans are one of the world&#8217;s foremost surf families. Flippy will greatly be missed. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfersjournal.com\/journal_entry\/phillip-flippy-hoffman-1930-2010\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a><\/strong> for more info.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfersjournal.com\/journal_entry\/phillip-flippy-hoffman-1930-2010\" target=\"_blank\">The Surfer&#8217;s Journal]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learned today from a Scott Hulet story on The Surfer&#8217;s Journal that big wave surfer and industry legend Phillip &#8220;Flippy&#8221; Hoffman died early this morning (November 10, 2010) in Mission Viejo, California. Hoffman had reportedly been battling &#8220;unspecified pulmonary issues.&#8221; He was 81. Born in Glendale, California in 1930, Flippy (as the surfing world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19491"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19497,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491\/revisions\/19497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}