HISTORY

K Bay is  sacred ground for Steve “Bullet” Mackenzie and many of the Eastern Suburbs early pioneers of Aussie bodyboarding. The natural wedging waves are ideal for getting barreled and launching from. This pic of young Bullet was taken around 1990 carving a chunk out of a K Bay face, photo Stroh

South Coast NSW legend Karl Fjelsted from Kiama pulling an el rollo at Blackrock, 1987  seq by Chris Stroh.

Robbie was one of the Newport Wedge crew and star of the Rot videos. Robbie was also one of the sports true characters always getting up to mischief like chewing tobacco and partying hard. Heres Mr Crawford seen below in Custom X advertisement from around ’93 pic by Mike Novak.

This pic of surfer Owl Chapman taken in 1973 at Pipe performing a backside dropknee pose could have been the trigger that got Jack Lindholm’s mind ticking when he came up with a similar stance a few years later which was known as the Jack Stance but frontside and on a Boogie.

Around the mid 80′s Dave Appleby was the mainman on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Dave’s local beach was Narrabeen but occassionally he’d make the 2 hour plus road trip down the coast to Aussie Pipe were this snap was taken around ’86 by Peter Simmons.

Behind every good man is a strong women or so the saying goes. Mike Stewarts wife Lisa has been known to throw down some moves as well. This shot taken at Mystics around ’91 of Lisa carving by Chris Stroh

Check out this old pic of a wooden bellyboard Circa 50′s. Check the kids mask out. Ready for action.

Standup legend Danny Kim scored the cover of Bodyboarding Magazine in Dec 89. It was at a time when standup bodyboarding was still popular and used in competition in small waves.

Troy came from Foster on the mid north coast of NSW. Both proficient at prone and dropknee he joined the Rheopaipo team in the 90′s and became Ben Hollands travel and sparring partner. Troy was a fierce competitor on the local Aussie tour but it was his DK skills that he was best known for. This shot, Troy water slaughter at home pic Stroh

Its not hard to work out were Adam Wingnut Smith got his nickname as a grom.