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The shaping of Mickey Muñoz’s surfing career, one that now spans more than seven decades, began in 1943 at the age of six when his family moved from New York City to Santa Monica. They settled in a home located two blocks from the breaking waves that soon would become Mickey’s quest and calling. By 1950, he was a well-established fixture among the Malibu crew of “Gidget” fame. As his surfing progressed, and surfboard designs and materials improved, he began turning heads and making waves throughout the surfing world with his standout skills and fun-loving innovative trademark tactics, most famously, a maneuver forever known as the “Quasimodo.” Beyond his small wave antics, he also became a big wave riding pioneer and is one of the original crew to take on Hawaii’s Waimea Bay in 1957.

In the 1960s, he became a top competitive surfer. He finished runner up in the 1962 and 1963 West Coast Surfing Championships and in 1964 took third in the United States Championships. In 1965, he finished second in the U.S. Championships and took fourth in the World Championships. Today, he continues to design surfboards and live what has been a storied surfing life. As he recently explained to Liquid Salt, a website that celebrates surfing culture, “the ‘stoke’ I had on my first wave has never worn off.”