Aside from Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch, Chicama, and a select few other transcendent pointbreaks, waves are hopelessly ephemeral. A couple seconds, tops. Maybe double-digits, if you’re lucky. And that ...

OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — Two Oceanside mothers, who loved bodyboarding as kids, came up with an idea to get moms out on the waves and decided to create “Boogie Moms.” The group began last June with a ...

Jay Reale has a claim that few wave riders can brag about – he beat Kelly Slater in a heat. Sure, Reale was already a professional bodyboarder at the time, an 18-year-old from Maryland who was making ...

Some might think bodyboarders have it easy, compared to surfers. For one, they don’t have to stand up. But surfers’ prone-riding brethren charge. They ride waves that surfers can’t. Big, scary, mutant ...

It wasn’t smooth or easy, but Hawaii school administrators, students and surfing advocates made a successful big drop this ...

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 ...