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Bodysurfing is the art of riding a wave without using any buoyant device or surf craft – it’s all in the name, surfing with only your body.

Bodysurfing is one of the best ways to punch through the walls of my comfort zone and expand my boundaries of getting into bigger waves.

Bodysurfing is the sport of riding a wave without the assistance of any buoyant device such as a surfboard or bodyboard. Bodysurfers often equip themselves with a pair of swimfins that aid propulsion and help the bodysurfer catch, ride, and kick out of waves.

Bodysurfing is more evolved......less equipment. Maybe not as thrilling some might say, but pretty much a barrel every wave. Sometimes I wish there were more people out there to bodysurf with, but on the flip side, it is nice when it's less crowded. It is easier to travel when you bodysurf, just fins and trunks.

The trick with the bigger waves is to keep on paddling and kicking until you’re are definitely on the wave , if you stop before this point you’re likely to fall off the back the wave and it will proceed unridden, and you’ll be left vulnerable to the next wave on the head. Once up and riding the principles of bodysurfing are the same as riding the smaller waves in that you want to trim across the wave, maintaining a nice high line.

Bodysurfing is an ancient pastime practiced by coastal communities worldwide, with a rich bodysurfing history that predates written records.

Congratulations to all the athletes who competed throughout the 2025. At the end of the season, the top 12 men and top 6 women earned the honor of qualifying to represent North America at the World Bodysurfing Tour in France.

What started as physical therapy swim sessions quickly turned into bodysurfing sessions. I discovered that bodysurfing is truly the purest form of experiencing mother ocean. To this day, I still can’t surf on a board and am considered disabled from everything my body went through.

Bodysurfing memories are mostly physical: the vast shudder with which the wave lifts you into itself, a sudden plunge down the face, the pressure on my hands when I hold them together in front of me, knifing through the white water.

Bodysurfing is truly the purest form of wave sliding.

In essence, bodysurfing is meditative physical exercise in the ocean, and exercise is a natural antidepressant. Strenuous physical activities like bodysurfing stimulate the release of endorphins (feel-good neurochemicals) that simply make us ...

It was around this time that bodysurfers began lengthening their rides by surfing horizontally (angling right or left) across the breaking wave face, as opposed to riding already-broken whitewater waves straight to shore.

Throughout the Hawaiian archipelago, continuous rains in the volcanic mountains often caused flash floods, sending torrents of water rushing seaward. At river mouths, these outflows collided with ocean surf, forming powerful stationary waves that traditional Hawaiians would swim and bodysurf.

Perhaps the purest form of wave riding, bodysurfing is the art and sport of riding a wave without the assistance of any buoyant device such as a surfboard or bodyboard. Beginner bodysurfing takes place in standing depth water, propelling yourself off the sand into a wave.

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When out the back look for where the surfers are and aim to sit just inside of them (closer to the beach) as a bodysurfer you’ll be able to catch waves at the last second, so if its busy day you’ll be looking to pick up the waves that the make it through the surfers line up unridden.

Bodysurfing has remained a ‘cool’ sport with a chilled-back attitude. What surfing has lost over the years, bodysurfers augmented at that same time. Bodysurfing is about friendliness, community, and enjoying the Ocean.

Bodysurfing is the oldest and simplest form of wave riding, and prior to the invention of the surf leash in the 1970s, was once a prerequisite skill for any

When out the back look for where the surfers are and aim to sit just inside of them (closer to the beach) as a bodysurfer you’ll be able to catch waves at the last second, so if its busy day you’ll be looking to pick up the waves that the make it through the surfers line up unridden.