HISTORY

Mike flying high on a Morey Boogie Mach 7-7 from the pages of Surfer Magazine in 1984. Tomorrows moves today….

Jeffrey Dean Hubbard from Kaui in Hawaii changed the face of bodyboarding with his outrageous aerial assault in the ’90s. He took what Eppo was doing and then brought  it to another level. His tweaked airs and rotations above the lip were spectacular and some of the biggest boosts of all time. What set him apart, he was getting higher and doing it every session no matter what the waves were like. He introduced the Hubb move and then he was the first bodyboarder to pull  a 720 rotation captured on film. He sealed his fate when he won the World Title and entered the history books as one of the sports most innovative riders.Below Hubb getting vert at Shark Island. Click the link to see Hubb in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neglPqhJV58

Heres Pro Rider Tips a one off Rush mag edition from Australia with Lester on the cover and the short lived Option Magazine from the USA.

When Scotty Carters break through video The Inside came out in the mid 90′s it featured the mysterious Chad Barba the Californian underground soul man at his peak surfing The Wedge, south of the border in Mexico and other mysto spots.

Around ’96 Mike Stewart and the Morey Team embarked on a massive Summer Coaching tour up the East Coast of Australia. It pulled together a large crew of Morey team riders including Jay Reale, Bullet, Matt Percy, Nugget,Barney, Adrian “Slug” Hybner, Matt Riley, Tully Beevor and Mike to name just a few to teach bodyboarding to the masses. It was a large operation and the kids turned up in huge numbers from town to town to meet and get instructions, advice and tips from the Worlds best. Below Slug and Nigel Bollack teach a group at Wanda Beach.

Brian Press, 1st Pro BodyBoarding Win at Oceanside clip. Californian Brian Press renown for his small wave competitiveness and moves beats bodyboardings best in this Bud Tour Event.

Ross “Hellman “Hawke charging at Pipe in Hawaii. Circa mid 80′s.

Check the image below taken in ’81. This was high performance bodyboarding for the time. Riders like Daniel Kaimi were pulling tricks like this, the first version of the spinner, or spinning the board underneath them and basically ad libbing and making it up as they went.

When this shot of Paul Roach appeared in Bodyboarding Magazine it changed the face of Dropknee riding. It was at the time and still is today one of the most inspiring and hardcore shots ever taken of a bodyboarder. It basically said to all the other youth codes like surfing, any thing you can do I can do better.

 After leaving Morey Boogie, Ben Severson hooked up with Bobby Szabad and designed his Ben signature board for BZ,  it created quite a buzz. Sevo was using his experience as one of the worlds top bodyboarders and transforming it into a high performance wave riding craft. It soon caught on and quickly became one of the most sought after board models around the world. Photo ,a pair of Ben model BZ boards from ’88.