HISTORY

Jay Reale and Vicki Gleeson on safari. This pic was taken on a trip motor homing it around the coastline of New Zealands North Island around the late 90′s photo Stroh.

Alex Gibb a talented grom  from Manly looked to be heading for a pro career in bodyboarding in the early 90′s but just as he was making his presence felt he disappeared out of public view. Photos Stroh for Gorrilla Grip Adv ’90.

Bodyboardings high profile couple  Jay Reale and Vicki Gleeson enjoying the good life,captured at D Bah in Queensland in the mid 90′s. The  pair are still together today, still hapily married with kids. Photo Stroh

 

In the early 90′s Manta organised a promo tour to Tasmania for team riders Adam “Wingnut” Smith and Ross Hawke. It was the first time pro bodyboarders had descended down to the Apple Isle. What they found was an Island with so much wave riding potential, heaps of stoked kids and freezing ice cold headache waters. This pic Wingnut and Hawke check out the local scenery. Photo Stroh

One of Brazil’s top female competitors from the late 80′s and 90′s.  shot taken at Cronulla during the Pro-Ams around ’88 photo Stroh.

During the inaugral Shark Island Challenge supplies were running low for the officials and competitors who were parked in a large cruiser boat in the channel off the Island. This photo shows Wazza, Fordy hidden and The Pulsator paddling out an esky full of goodies to save the day. Photo Stroh

 

One of Hawaii’s Northshore local standouts of the mid 90′s. Kap was a familar sight along the Off The Wall to Backdoor strip during the Winter months. Always a favourite with photographers busting moves like this reverse air at Backdoor. Photo Peto.

Keegs was from the Sunshine Coast in Australia and throughout the 90′s earned a reputation as a top competitor as well as an all round free surfer who could mix it up no matter how big or small. Adam was part of the Rheopaipo team and featured heavily in there advertising campaigns. Pic of Keegs at The Box in W.A. by  Holtzy.