Kim Bradley

Kim Bradley, nicknamed The Fly, was an Australian surfer born on 9 May 1955 who pioneered organised surfing competitions on the island of Bali, staging the first of them in 1979. He grew up surfing at Avalon on Sydney's Northern Peninsula, worked briefly for Tracks magazine and travelled with David Sumpter showing surf films before reaching Bali at eighteen in 1974. There he married a Balinese woman, had three children and converted to Hinduism. He appeared on the opening wave of the surf film Morning of the Earth and made his name searching out and surfing many Indonesian waves that surfers now ride. He was at Uluwatu when Gerry Lopez and Jeff Hackman first surfed the Indonesian breaks, and Lopez gave him his lightning bolt surfboard in 1974. Bradley died in Bali on 26 March 2009.