Other companies out there in the field include: Body Glove, Whamo, Loca Motion and BZ. (All U.S Champs hailing from Hawaii except for Cain that first year).īoogie boards have become big business with boards ranging from Morey’s Big Kahuna to Wave Rebel’s Princess. Past champions have hailed from Brazil, France, South Africa and the U.S.A. Then from 2003 and on, the competitions changed names to the IBA World Tour with Ben Player of Australia claiming the title in 2013. The competitions carried on with Morey’s name until 1995 when they became the GOB World Tour.
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Bryan Cain of Iowa was the first winner of the International Morey Boogie Body Board Pro Championships in 1977. The art of Boogie boarding has risen from a fun pastime to organized championship level competitions. To make a long story short, while experimenting with different shapes and materials, Morey one day cut his last piece of polyethylene foam in half, shaped it a bit with a hot iron and the boogie board was born.
Legend has it that the Boogie board was invented by Tom Morley in July of 1971 while living in Hawaii. It took another couple hundred years for an American to revolutionize the sport using modern materials. They would ride these on their belly or sometimes their knees as Captain Cook observed and reported upon his arrival in Hawaii in 1778. The Polynesian people first used a variance of this with “alaia” boards made of wood. It’s as simple as that.īoogie boarding is basically a form of body surfing you just add in a small piece of foam under your belly.
You just wade out into the water, wait for a wave, throw yourself down on your Boogie board and away you go.
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