The godfather of snowboarding – who even stunt-doubled as James Bond on the slopes – has died, aged just 61.
Tom Sims, passed away from a heart attack on Wednesday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, California, according to his sister, Margie Sims Kilinger.
Sims was a pioneer in both skateboarding and snowboarding, helping bring the latter to the masses by pushing ski resorts to embrace the little known sport in the 1980s.
‘He was the godfather of all board sports,’ Michael Brooke, publisher of Concrete Wave Magazine, told the Los Angeles Times … More
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