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Bodyboarding (aka Boogie Boarding)
On July 7, 1971, the bodyboard was born. Tom Morey, a
surfboard builder with a background in math and
engineering,
had left his California surfboard business to relax and design
on the island of Hawaii. On that fateful day, staring out at
the surf without a board to ride, Morey borrowed an electric
carving knife and a household iron, whittled some scrap
polyethylene foam into a small rectangular mat and covered it
with newspaper. He found his invention (first dubbed S.N.A.K.E.
-- side, navel, arm, knee, elbow) easy to produce and even
easier to navigate. In 1973, he trademarked the name Morey
Boogie for $10 and scrounged together enough money to place a
quarter-page ad in Surfing magazine.
Demand for Morey's boards was incredible. By 1977, he was
producing 80,000 per year, mainly sold in the United States.
The next year, Morey-Boogie was purchased by Kransco (and
later resold to Whamo, Inc. in 1998, with Morey hired as a
consultant). Here was an activity that, unlike surfing,
offered a gentle learning curve and could be enjoyed
immediately by even the most sedentary of people. Boards were
affordable -- less than $100 for the top of the line and 10
bucks for a drugstore special -- and the sport caught on
worldwide.
As lineups become congested with bodyboarders, many of them
incompetent, resentment toward the sport quickly grew. Most
surfers looked upon them as second-class citizens, refusing to
yield on a wave and creating derogatory monikers such as
spongers, cripples and speed bumps. Like it or not,
bodyboarding was here to stay, and it soon found its way into
competition.
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The
first professional bodyboarding contest was the 1979 Morey/Gap
event at Huntington Beach, won by Californian Mike Lambresi,
who evolved to conventional surfing and went on the become a
three-time U.S. professional champion. From there, the
Surecraft/Coca-Cola Challenge was held at Pipeline the next
year, boasting a $5,000 purse and won by John Patterson. In
1982, Pipe became host for an event known as the World
Bodyboarding Championships, an annual gathering determining
the king of the sport and continuing to this day. Bodyboarding
found its first hero the next year in blond-haired, blue-eyed
Hawaiian Mike Stewart.
Dominant under any conditions, Stewart was a maestro at Pipe,
winning that event a record 11 times, not to mention being an
eight-time U.S. champion. Considered the world's premier
big-wave barrel, Pipeline was merely survived by stand-up
surfers, while Stewart made it his personal playground. He
rode it deeper than any other human and launched unfathomable
aerials and barrel rolls on sections other people avoided
completely. Still among the world's top riders at the end of
the '90s, Stewart eased into semi-retirement. His legacy,
however, remains as bodyboarders routinely ride deepest and
fly highest of all waveriders.
In contrast to surfing, which remains dominated by the United
States and Australia, bodyboarding has acquired more
multicultural control. While those countries still produce
some viable contenders, many of the world's top bodyboarders
now hail from Brazil, South Africa, Portugal, Puerto Rico,
Venezuela, Panama and the Canary Islands. Guilherne Tamega
from Brazil set the pace by rising to topple Stewart in 1995,
becoming the first Global Organization of Bodyboarding World
Champion. Unable to crack the upper echelons of the ASP
(except for Brazil), these countries embraced bodyboarding,
promoting it through extensive television and magazine
coverage. Meanwhile, U.S. surfwear companies withdrew their
support during the difficult period in the early '90s and have
yet to reinvest.
It didn't take long for bodyboarding to usurp surfing in terms
of numbers; the cheap and easy road will always be the most
trodden. But bodyboarding has gone a step further. The most
progressive-minded surfers in the world, led by Kelly
Slater, are now pursuing bodyboarders when it comes to
defining future performance standards. For example, Slater
attempted an A.R.S., or aerial reverse spin, during the 1999
Pipe Masters. Where Slater goes, so goes surfing. In that
case, we'd better keep our eyes on those
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