Mike Doyle, surfing legend from ‘the wrong side of Interstate 5,’ dies at 78 in Mexico

Mike Doyle first put his feet on a board in 1953 when surfing was — at best — a cultish hobby shared by a handful of hardened, sun-blazed surfers.

They called him “Malibu Mike,” a tall kid from the wrong side of Interstate 5 who rode the waves with a muscular aggression many on the Southern California…