Archbold, Matt
Regularfoot surfer from San Clemente, California; one of the sport's great natural talents, introduced in the mid-1980s as a bashful child prodigy, then evolving into a heavily tattooed and periodically self-destructive cult hero. The son of a banker, Archbold was born (1968) in Fontana, California, and raised in San Clemente. He began bodyboarding at age five; six years later, when he got his fir...
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Matt Archbold, 1997
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Matt Archbold, Boy Wonder
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Matt Archbold
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Matt Archbold, 1995. Photo: Hank
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Matt Archbold, 1984. Photo: Rick Goddard
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Matt Archbold, 1990. Photo: Rob Gilley