The Rubberman Kicks Out 

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Screen-print style illustration of an anonymous skateboarder silhouette in a low layback slide with one hand dragging on a curved concrete bank that flows into a curling teal ocean wave.Illustration

Hawaiian Larry Bertlemann, the Rubberman, has died, and surfing and skating both lost a giant. His low, bent-knee carves of the 1970s helped launch surfing’s high-performance era and fired up Dogtown skaters like Jay Adams and Tony Alva, and the tributes are pouring in.

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