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Frank Latta RIP

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Frank Latta, died early August 2010 surfing off the NSW north coast.

"I regarded Frank as the real thing, the genuine article, the real goods," Midget Farrelly

"His competitive nature in the water was really interesting; he had the ability to win but he didn't have to tread on your toes to do it." Midget Farrelly

Farrelly said Latta was an "independent operator" and a very good surfer.

"He was an underrated surfer and poorly acknowledge by the media monopoly at the time, which focused on others," Midget Farrelly

Latta excelled at boxing as a teenager and played competitive snooker as an adult and was also a pigeon trainer and even raced them.

"Frank was a fellow that approached everything with a 'well if I'm going to do this I'm going to be good' attitude," Skipp

"He could apply himself to the point I was jealous. I couldn't put as much energy into a project as he could when he wanted to." Skipp

"He loved the isolation where you could go to a beach and be the only man and he was a good surfer, he could have handled crowds but he chose not to." Skipp

Frank Latta RIP

Frank Latta was a beautiful surfer, a recluse, a sharp shooter and a wonderful surfboard designer.

Frank Latta was the featured surfer on the cover to the switch-foot II book as seen below in this fisheye photograph of some posters we did of the cover.

We are going to dedicate this space to Frank's legacy,more soon....