Jimmy Blears

James Blears Jr., known as Jimmy, was the 1972 World Surfing Champion, born on January 6, 1948, in California, who died in his sleep in Honolulu on February 4, 2011, aged 63. The oldest son of professional wrestling champion Lord James Tally-Ho Blears, himself an avid surfer who appeared in The Endless Summer, he moved with his family to Hawaii at eleven and learned to surf from his father. Besides surfing professionally he worked as a professional lifeguard on Oahu's North Shore for 25 years. His sister Laura was one of the world's top female surfers of the 1970s, and his youngest brother Clinton Tallyho Blears was also a noted professional surfer.