{"id":21524,"date":"2011-02-15T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21524"},"modified":"2011-02-21T08:42:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T16:42:59","slug":"rip-usasa-founder-chuck-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21524","title":{"rendered":"RIP: USASA Founder Chuck Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chuck_allen.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chuck_allen.jpg','popup','width=224,height=299,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\/2011\/02\/chuck_allen-tm.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Chuck Allen\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/usasa1\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Allen&#8217;s facebook page<\/a><\/strong> is getting inundated this morning with messages memorializing the man who did so much to legitimize competitive board sports in the United States and the world.<\/p>\n<p>Allen died yesterday on Valentine&#8217;s Day (February 14, 2011) a little after 1 PM following what has been described as complications with emphysema that had seen him hospitalized for approximately a week and a half before his death. He was with his family when he died. Allen was 74 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Allen is best known as co-founder of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Scholastic Surfing Association<\/a><\/strong> in 1978 and as the founder, in 1988, of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usasa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">United States Amateur Snowboard Association<\/a><\/strong>. Lately, with his work as an ambassador at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mthigh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain High Resort<\/a><\/strong>, Chuck was one of the biggest promoters of snowboarding in Southern California, but he was so much more to so many people.<\/p>\n<p>Snowboard innovator <strong>Jeff Grell<\/strong> posted the following on Allen&#8217;s facebook page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was never a better friend than Chuck Allen, my mentor, my inspiration and the best sports event professional I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Chuck, you welcomed me into your family and always gave back more than anyone I&#8217;ve ever known, I will truly miss you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraattahoe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sierra-at-Tahoe<\/a><\/strong> General Manager <strong>John Rice<\/strong> agreed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pioneer, mentor, coach, friend, you have affected the lives of so many people in so many ways with your positive energy and smiles. Your spirit will live on in every kid with board sports dreams, the countless hours you gave through all the years will never be taken for granted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with Chuck Allen&#8217;s family, especially his wife Chris, his children, grandchildren and his worldwide family of snowboard and surf friends. We will all miss him dearly. We will keep you posted on memorial service information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>[Update February 20, 2011: Chuck Allen was r<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/21\/sports\/21allen.html\" target=\"_blank\">emembered today in the <\/a><\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/21\/sports\/21allen.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for a life spent dedicated to education and boardsports.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Allen&#8217;s facebook page is getting inundated this morning with messages memorializing the man who did so much to legitimize competitive board sports in the United States and the world. Allen died yesterday on Valentine&#8217;s Day (February 14, 2011) a little after 1 PM following what has been described as complications with emphysema that had [&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":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524"}],"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=21524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21633,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524\/revisions\/21633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}