Surf Walk of Fame

This year’s inductees for the Surfers’ Hall of Fame — Huntington Beach’s oceanside answer to the footprints and handprints of movie stars in Hollywood — have been announced.

While the effort was begun by Huntington Surf and Sport owner Aaron Pai at his store, the prints now fill a section of sidewalk at Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway. Those honored for the Hall include Sean Collins, Mike Parsons, Brad Gerlach and Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew. The attraction, which has reached its 11th year, now honors about 30 icons of surfing with their handprints and footprints in concrete.

Gerlach, who has lived in Huntington Beach, was on the HB Surf Team in the 1980s. He caught a 68-foot wave in Todos Santos, Mexico, in 2005 and won the XXL Big Wave Challenge.

Parsons has been a National Scholastic Surfing Assn. champion, a substantial name in big-wave surfing, and is a contest director for the World Championship Tour in surfing. Bartholomew, an Australian, was a world champion in 1978 and a pioneer of pro surfing. And Collins, who founded Surfline.com, changed the business of surf forecasting.

Pai called the inductees icons of the surfing world. “Just like Hollywood has the Walk of Fame and Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Huntington Beach has the Surfers’ Hall of Fame,” Pai said.

The inductees will see their names and prints added at a ceremony at 10 a.m., July 25.