HISTORY

6 Bodyboarders where the faces of  the sport in the early to mid 80′s. Ben Severson, JP Patterson, Keith Sasaki, Mike Stewart, Jack Lindholm and Pat Caldwell.

Frame Grab of Mike Stewart from the mid to early 90′s Bodyboarding Extreme video describing the technical side of riding a deep barrel.

Aussie Bodyboarding legends came from near and far to celebrate Dave Ballards 40th birthday at Woonoona on Easter Saturday. Revelers included Evan Penglis, Ross Hawke, Macca, Doug Robson, Eppo, Mark Fordham, Rissole, Wingnut and many more. Bal in the red T shirt spent Easter Friday at pumping Shark Island one of the best days of the year so far.Photo courtesy Fordy.

Above Fordy, Macca, Wingo, Evan and Eppo.

Dave Ballard grew up surfing The Alley at North Cronulla a regular left handed rip bowl its where he honed his powerful Dropknee style. This shot Garie Beach 90′s photo Stroh

To be part of the Shark Island Cronulla crew in the early 90′s you had to have a nickname. Names like Ballbag, Wingnut, Teeth, Nugget,Fungi,The Chief, Skull,Finewine, Sweaty, Tooth and Rissole pictured below were just some of the more colourful tags getting around. Photo Stroh

 

Andre Botha on fire in the late 90′s, Hawaii photo Stroh

This photo of Jacky at Off The Wall says it all,super radical with style. Circa 90′s photo Stroh

One of Australia’s first bodyboarding stars of the late 80′s and early 90′s. Youngy loved nothing better than charging the heavy reef waves around Cronulla, often controversial BY was one of a kind. RIP. Photo Stroh

Winter ’92/93 saw Hawaii’s domination of the World Title at Pipe finally come to an end. Eppo from Australia won but it was Tamega who really pushed the limits and showed the potential of a future threat.

Stewart drawing a clean direct line into a solid Backdoor beast, the anticipation of what comes next must be playing  heavy on his mind photo Stroh Circa 90s