Timmy Curran

Timmy Curran, born Tim Curran on 14 August 1977, is a retired professional surfer who is also a musician. He was born in the San Fernando Valley, spent part of his childhood in Temecula, about an hour from the ocean, where his father began driving him to the beach every weekend when he was five, and later settled near Oxnard, California. He had his first sponsorship at eleven from McCrystal Surfboards and was competing professionally by sixteen. On the World Championship Tour he was a regular contender for the title and was known as one of its most affable surfers. He is famous for The Flip, a full upside-down rotation in two-foot surf at Rocky Point in Hawaii in the winter of 2005. As a musician he has released albums including Word of Mouth in 2007, Verses in 2010 and Options in 2011.