ShapeShifters

In Honolulu, Hawaii at Sandy Beach Park in April of 1980, an 18-year-old Pat Caldwell lands the first el rollo, a crucial capillary wave in the groundswell of bodyboarding. As the wind continues to blow over this stretch of sea, it evolves into air rollos and barrel rolls. Mike Stewart plays a large part in […]

The International Bodyboarding Corporation waited patiently for two years to get their tour up and running. For obvious reasons, 2020 and 2021 are without bodyboarding world champs in the record books, with the exception of Sammy Morretino, who earned his fourth world title last year in the drop knee division. Finally, the 2022 bodyboarding world […]

Us humans have a need to name things and place them in neat little groups with other things that share similarities. It’s part of how we communicate and make sense of the world around us. So when Bego Martinez and Fabio Aquino disagreed on whether competitors completed a backflip (Bego) or an A.R.S (Fabio) during […]

Part III: The Biggest Wave The date is February 25th, 2021, only three days after the successful test run. The Gigantes de Nazaré Big Wave Challenge is on, an annual invitational event presented by Brazilian television channel TV Globo. Pedro Levi has been invited this year, the first time bodyboarding will be showcased in the […]

Part II: The Board Looking at this bodyboard, one can tell it’s not made for waves suitable to your regular bodyboard aficionado. Here’s a run-down of all the features that Pedro Levi and Shaper Gato put together for the world’s first tow-in bodyboard. All quotes are from Shaper Gato. Height It’s bigger than usual. At […]

The Battle for Drop Knee G.O.A.T In January of 2020, the newly formed International Bodyboarding Corporation (IBC) announced they’d be taking over operations of the bodyboarding world tour during the first event of the year, the Lurín Pro in Peru. Little did they know at the time, the coronavirus was already spreading quickly in China […]