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Popular skateboarder Zane Timpson has reportedly died at the age of 26. Friends of Timpson shared their shock and devastation at the news, which was announced in an obituary by skateboarding publication Thrasher on Sunday. However, a cause of death has not been revealed and Timpson’s family members have not spoken out.
The Heroin Skateboards pro was born and raised in Leucadia, California, and moved to San Francisco in 2013 and stayed there for nearly seven years. Most recently he called Encinitas home.
In Maxham’s Instagram post, he shared some of his thoughts after grappling with his close friend’s passing: “I cried all day yesterday. I hugged your pro model board that you signed for me. I took it skating with me and went frontside the whole time. I read our texts and called you. You didnt answer. I left you a voice mail that nobody will hear. If they do, They wont understand cause i could barely speak through the flood of tears. I woke up crying again today i still cant grasp the fact that you are away. The big away. You have always been so kind and loving. I am proud of the man you grew up to be. I am lucky to have gotten to spend so much time with you. I will scream your name forever. I love you Zane.”
Timpson approached everything differently, conquering larger-than-life skatespots and taking extra pushes down the steepest, most horrendously unpaved hills. Watching any of his hillbombing footage you can be fairly certain that this was a guy who deeply loved to skate—and skate fast. His Heroin ‘Sufferlove’ part from last summer shows just how fearless and joyful Zane Timpson’s skating could be. Timpson talked about the importance of pushing yourself as far as you can in his recent Bronson Speed Co. day-in-the-life video: “You’re always getting humbled, and that’s how it should be… If you’re not getting humbled, you’re not trying.”