We weren't really surfers in the traditional sense you know? We're from VENICE.
--Skip Engblom
[Jay's] the original.
--Shogo Kubo
[Jay's] the real thing, an original seed, the original virus that infected all of us. He was beyond comparison.
--Stacy Peralta
It's fitting that R.I.P. is "rip," because that's what this LA legend did.