A surfer and a bodyboarder drop into a third reef Pipeline bomb… No, this is not the setup for a bad joke. It’s what happened just the other day on the North Shore of Oahu, when Jamie O’Brien (surfing ...

A quick look around average breaks might suggest that the sport of bodyboarding may be going the way of the kneelo (that's right, cousin to the prone people, kneeboarding has been all but extinct for ...

While riding waves in a prone position dates back to the ancient Hawaiians, on hand-carved boards called paipos, it wasn’t until 1973 that the sport became a worldwide phenomenon. That’s when ...

Teza McKenna, the manager of The Bodyboarding World Tour remembers a golden age of bodyboarding. In 2012, bodyboarders were catapulting themselves through the air, launching themselves off of massive ...

After Brazil’s Mariana Nogueira darted around Hawaii’s famed Banzai Pipeline to win the World Championships of Women’s Bodyboarding last February, most of her rivals and at least half of the beach ...

Anthony Leone of North Carolina was looking for good waves Saturday north of the Ocean Beach Pier — but not for surfing. For bodyboarding. “Surf today has been pumping,” he said. “It was banging the ...

There is a common term for those who spend much of their lives in and around the ocean, pushing the boundaries to generate new understanding of what is possible, and what is not. They are referred to ...

If you’re unfamiliar with bodyboarding as a sport, you’d be forgiven for picturing sunburnt beach-goers pushing happily screaming kids onto whitewash waves. In reality, this exhilarating sport can ...