They called him “Malibu Mike,” a tall kid who rode the waves with a muscular aggression many in SoCal surf had never seen before.
Mike Doyle first put his feet on a board in 1953 when surfing was — at best — a cultish hobby shared by a handful of hardened, sun-blazed surfers.
Stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, Doyle died Tuesday at his home in San Jose del Cabo at the tip of Baja California, not far from the perfect curls that seemed to script his life. While others won more awards, there was a sense in the Southern California surf community that Doyle stood as the soul of surfdom.
“When people ask me who’s the best surfer in the world, some people might say Kelly Slater. I say it’s the person who’s having the most fun,” Doyle said in a series of interviews on “Swell Tales,” which aired on YouTube.Mike Doyle rose to global fame in the 1960s for both his skill and his embodiment of the sport's early carefree nature.
Michael Daniel Doyle was born in Lawndale in 1941 and began surfing at 13. He rode his first waves at Manhattan Beach, though Malibu became his favorite break.
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