Bodyboarding:
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Bodyboarding is a form of wave riding. The board consists of a small roughly rectangular piece of foam, shaped to a hydrodynamic form. more>> |
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| “Bodyboarding is a form of wave riding. The board consists of a small roughly rectangular piece of foam, shaped to a hydrodynamic form. The bodyboard is predominantly ridden lying down (’prone’). It can also be ridden in a half-standing stance with one knee touching the board known as ‘drop knee’. The bodyboard may even be ridden standing up. The vast majority of bodyboarders usually wear swimfins on both feet to aid in controlling trajectory, adjusting speed while riding, paddling out, and taking off.” {read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_board} —– “While many Polynesians had probably ridden waves in a prone stance on thin wooden ‘paipo’ boards for centuries, the modern foam bodyboard is a direct invention of Tom Morey in the early 1970s. Tom’s original idea was to find a fun and friendly way to make waveriding more accessible to the wider community. Tom’s invention was licensed to the toy company Wham-O, makers of the Frisbee, and was sold to the public as the Morey ‘Boogie’ board. The subsequent mass production and embrace by the waveriding public led to the interest of the sport’s early heroes such as Jack Lindholm, Ben Severson, Pat Caldwell and Mike Stewart.” {read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_board} |
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