{"id":7115,"date":"2017-12-20T16:06:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantiksurf.com\/en\/?p=7115"},"modified":"2019-03-26T09:31:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T09:31:32","slug":"happened-stand-bodyboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantiksurf.com\/en\/happened-stand-bodyboarding\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Stand-Up Bodyboarding?"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all, did you know stand-up bodyboarding<\/strong> existed? Haven’t you ever seen a surfer riding on top of his bodyboard<\/strong>? Well, if you haven’t seen it yet it’s because many bodyboarders fighted to abolish this kind of bodyboarding style saying that it wasn’t bodyboarding<\/strong>, it was surfing, and therefore Judges couldn’t or didn’t know how to score the tricks of the stand-up bodyboarders<\/strong> during competitions.<\/p>\n

I found a great article with amazing and astonishing pictures of Stand-Up Bodyboarding that explains us why it is a forgotten surfing art. Stab Magazine has made an incredible effort to explain what happened here<\/a>. But the truth is that it was the own bodyboarding community the ones that decided to abolish stand-up bodyboarding.<\/p>\n

 
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Former boyboarder PRO Chris Taloa<\/strong> says the exact moment in which Stand-Up bodyboarding experienced it’s early death was in Brazil 1996<\/strong> where Prone, Drop-Knee and Stand-Up bodyboarders<\/strong> all competed under the same rules<\/strong>. Judges fought against each other as there was a bodyboarding civil war<\/strong>. On one hand there were the bodyboarders who wanted to take the sport to another level, respecting the 3 different styles<\/strong> named before and on the other hand, the other bodyboarders who were really proud of bodyboarding itself as a different sport from Surfing<\/strong> and therefore the ones that didn’t like standing-up and wanted to erase it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Chris Taloa’s own words and thanks to Stab Magazine we hear that he said: \u201cIn my first heat (at the World Games), I\u2019d take off backside and do four huge roundhouse snaps into a full backside reverse 360, and I didn\u2019t hear my scores,\u201d Chris says. \u201c(The judges) didn\u2019t get it. But we had a Hawaiian judge, who was actually from Brazil, and he understood everything they were saying. He came and told me that they took my score sheets and had a huge fight about it in the judges tent. A couple of the international judges were like \u2018F… you, that guy is ripping,\u2019 and the other ones were like \u2018F… you, that\u2019s not bodyboarding<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n