HISTORY

MikeLambresi began bodyboarding around ’75 at Oceanside Pier and was soon to become one of sports first top competitors on The Morey Mainland Comps around 1975 to 1982 prior to him taking up Pro Surfing for a living. Lambresi was a regular finalist and was multi talented and is credited with introducing Power rolls in ’76 to the sport.

 

Featuring teamrider Bobby Szabad.

Eppo began experimenting with the Double Roll move at home in Port MacQuarie in ’92. He unleashed it in Hawaii at the Pipe comp in Jan ’93 and the rest is history. The day this sequence was captured for the film “Ballistic” by Underground Tapes, Eppo had only made one or two ever before. This day was a punchy day at Breakwall when he fully pulled it off in spectacular form, it was the move that started a change of thinking in the sport. Seq Chris Stroh.

Kalani was one of Hawaiia’s most consistent performers throughout the 80′s placing highly in the Pipeline events and even travelled to parts of the globe including Australia to compete on the World stage. These days Kalani has built a name for himself in the standup surfing world. Photo Balzer. 

The first time I saw this kind of Bodyboarding/body surfing was during the making of Underground Tapes around 1990. It was by Steve “Macca”Mackenzie at Suckrock using a Maccas tray. Got those waves on video in the vault somewhere. It originated at Sandy’s Beach in the early days where pretty much everything else in the sport was first started. This clip will get you amped to give it a go.

http://youtu.be/onOcGod3SuA

Check out this clip of Brad Hughes and Chad Jackson from a Sky TV report pushing bodyboarding to the limit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqFQOvaAXE4

Heres a clip from 2010 of The Wedge in all its glory. The Newport Wedge has been   the epicentre of bodyboarding in Californian since the sport began and after checking out this clip you can understand why….teaser by Hess Films      

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQsobHGcNmU&feature=player_embedded#at=26

The Smor-gas-board video was the follow title to the very popular Boogie Knights movie by John Mckinney. The new VHS vid was more of the same, mixing red hot action with commedy skitsthis time around introducing us to the legendary Bubba. Starring Maligro, Harnsberger, Jacob Reeves and all the top pro’s, it hit the market  around 2000 just before DVD’s took over from tapes.