The induction is held each year during the US Open of Surfing.
Billauer, the first to accept his award, talked about his many accomplishments following his surf accident, including three International Surfing Association adaptive surfing world championships, being featured in the Dana Brown film “Step Into Liquid” and, his greatest feat, his twin sons.
The next inductee to be honored with a granite stone on the corner of Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway was Hansen, who started surfboard shaping in Santa Cruz with Jack O’Neill before moving to San Diego in the ’60s to open his own shop, Hansen Surfboards.Madrigal, a well-known fixture in Huntington Beach since the ’70s for his skate and surf skills, earned the local hero award.
In 1958, Metz made one of the first great around-the-world surf adventures, coming back to tell friend and filmmaker Bruce Brown about the journey, paving the path for what would become “The Endless Summer” movie. “He’s the youngest teenager I know,” said Haun. “He lives the life of aloha. You all know Dick as a huge supporter of surfing. He’s had his hand in so many different things. He’s a man of many talents, but he will never tell you about himself. He has all his friends that will do that for him, and I count myself blessed to be among his friends. He’s going to outlive all of us.”
“I came here and I was like ‘Wow,’” he recalled thinking while walking up Main Street. “This is the first place I came to when I came to America … walking up the pier, looking over the guys surfing underneath you.”
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