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A group of legendary bodyboarders has celebrated the creation of the bodyboard with a meeting at T-Street, in San Clement, California.

Forty-five years ago, in 1971, Tom Morey cut a rectangular shape of polyethylene foam and covered it with newspaper. The bodyboard and bodyboarding, and a whole new sport, had been born.

Forty-five years later, Pat Caldwell, Mike Stewart, Keith Sasaki, Manny V, Jay Reale, Kavan Okumura, Jena Metzger-Roghair, JP Patterson, Tom Prince, Brian Press, and many other anonymous bodyboarders met with Tom Morey at T-Street to  …  More

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