HISTORY

When Dre turned up in Hawaii with a mouth full of braces around ’98  he instantly took to the powerful swells like he grew up here. From the start he was a standout and within no time at all he was the youngest world champion  2 years running. Dre’s big wave lust also took him to The Shorey photo below of Dre rushing it  by Stroh

 

Sasaki was streets ahead of the DK oposition throughout the 80′s. He broke away from standard turns and was the first to successfully begin pulling high performancre skate/surfboard inspired manouvres on his bodyboard. This floater photo taken around ’89/90 during a tour of OZ photo Chris Stroh

 

When this shot of Brazillian female bodyboarder Neymara Carvalho was taken at Pipe around 2000 she was on top of the world ratings. At the time Neymara was right up there in performance with many of the men competitors and her fearless approach at Pipeline helped her dominate the sport for many years to come….photo Chris Stroh

 

One of Jays ambitions as a bodyboarder was to surf New Zealand and in particular Raglan Bay. In early 2000′s he got his wish. This shot was taken during that trip on one of the many beachbreaks on the West Coast of the North Island photo Chris Stroh

A clip from the 1970s Style Masters Dvd featuring womens bodyboard pioneer Phyllis Dameron https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=411696098900400

 

Danny Kim pioneered standup surfing on a bodyboard throughout the 80′s and took it to new levels of extreme performance. Photo Cavataio

Pat Caldwell one of the original pioneers of the sport reaps the rewards 1980. Photo from Pats photo collection.

Poster from the early 80′s of Jack Lindholm at Pipe photo Peter Crawford.

Maroubras Evan Penglis was Australias most internationally know bodyboarder in ’83 when he was invited to surf in the first Pipeline World Contest in Hawaii. The pictures below were from Bodyboarding magazine in the mid 80′s showing Evan giving Pipeline a nudge.

Evan Penglis earned the title The Godfather because he was the first Aussie to dominate the sport in Oz as well as make an impact in Hawaii in the early 80′s. Victorian champion Josh Morgan remembers….photo by Peter Simons.

“I had this picture on my wall since the 80s. Still on my wall all those years. First time I meet him was at state team challenge at Coffs Harbor in 80s I was about 14. Qld vs Nsw vs Vic. Me and my mate stole some beers off older guys and hid in bush. We were trying to open the beer bottle caps so we could get pissed, Evan found us and offered to open beers for us, and we talked about his time at pipeline. We were amazed to listen to someone who had rode massive waves. He was tall and larger than life. We were star stuck” Josh Morgan.