'Vacuum track rail ' did he say ?

Got my first Morey in '78. I'd spend all day long on it in Huntington Beach. 13 years old. Around 22 my girlfriend held one steady for me as I came running and jumped on it try to skim across the pool. Took about 10-15 tries before I stepped off onto the other side of the pool.

He didn’t invented the bodyboard… he invented the foam industrialized version of the paipo and made it popular. You can see videos of people bodyboarding Pipeline, Sunset, Waimea with paipos before the foam boogie board was invented… It’s all on KZfaq

They had style

I'm proud to say I was maybe Tom's 3rd employee back in '75 when I was living with his family on Chestnut St. In Carlsbad, Ca. He would have me go up to Torrance to get the skins for it, load it on to a flatbed Tom stuck on to his little Chevy Luv' pickup truck. I'd leave the factory in Torrance, swaying, dancing skins behind me normally no problem but once a Stater stopped me, and said he laughed at me the time before I'd gone up, but now the load was almost touching the side of the highway. But, still just a warning. I guess the cop knew these skins were headed someplace special: Tom Morey' s first Boogie Board factory in Carlsbad. Wherever you are Tom, Marsha, Soul, Moon, Sky, and Kit I love you and thanks for letting me be a small part of your life! Live on FOREVER Boogie Boards & King Tom🏝 May you RIP. I will always remember California, Hawaii, and Washington. And, your eternal kindness during some rough stretches of a life sometimes gone crazy. Tom as a natural musician you were pretty damn inspiring. And, man you will always be One Hip Cat! 😎

Great music 👌

this man is forever legend. changed lives for the better around the world. thank you, Tom Morey 🏝

The "Cripple- stick" provided so much entertainment and exercise to thousands...now get OFF THOSE SCREENS, KIDS, AND LIVE!!!!!

Is the #1 winner the one on the yellow board???

Is the one that won 1st place the one on the yellow board…. ???

Bringer of joy to countless people. RIP Tom.

I think that surfers and bodyboarders do not get along well and I and they and all we know why

Wow I remember watching this video when I was 13 years old 👍🏼👍🏼

Who invented da piper boards?

This soundtrack is giving me a semi dakine.

Golden Era for the boog. Young Ben! "feel the wave" with a boogie.

whose documentary is this??

Haleiwa

So mean🤘

Good airs!

Taller than average, smarter than average, from the university of spoiled children , a real surf legend. The legendary morey. True moreyism. Yep.. narcissism a family trait. I hope Dane survives his mothers narcissism, guess it runs in the family. From Mr. Dobbs

I used to have stacks of body boarding magazines, put the posters on my walls, I was 15 or so, then and still haven't bodyboarded yet. (far from warm waters) Great to see a archived historic video.

Funny at 7:25 was me trying a Rollo takeoff on a Scott board NOT during this contest. Don King was in the water with a massive camera, and of course I tried to show off. FAIL

Did you know Tom Morey is also a musician and music producer? Creativity knows no bounds! kauaioriginals.com/shop?olsPage=products%2Fcd-tom-morey-presents-songs-from-another-room

@8:54 "Goes into a pipe tube" *LOL* yeah its pipeline brah that's the only tube you can get in going left

cadwells roll is so clean

Este video é histórico! Eu comecei com bodyboarding em 85. Na época só tínhamos este video gravado em VHS. 360 tridimensional, el rollo, cut back , 360 , tubo e dropknee era tudo o que havíamos visto na ocasião.

urrrr considering the movie tubular swells came out in 1975,i think not....

LOL!! WTF is he trying to do.. thats the funniest thing ever!

Pat rolls like a beast....

thank you for posting this! brought back a lot of memories. I always loved "Walking on Chinese Walls" from hearing it on this clip.

@vegasbaby412 its actually worse

4:47 - Pat Caldwell - The term 'Tubular' is born.......

That Advert is LEGEND!!!

@browncatt1 WHOOPS

@Odoth its a bit hard when you are blind and have no concept of what being animated looks like! :)

Classic Bodyboard, I Love Bodyboard... Viva CHILE, Arica Capital del Surf & Bodyboard

Anybody got mutant slabs to upload!!

ah the mach 7-7

these guys shred so good!!!

@elmernbugs Hey Tony it would be interesting to try and get another old school gathering at Nationals. I put one together in 2006 - got Rob Cotter, Eppo, Ross Hawke, Dave Appleby and Wayne Smith there (+ others) - we had heaps of fun - would be cool to get the even earlier crew back for a comp reunion.

Hey Tony it's Karl Gol. Dunno if you remember me but I started competing in 1984 and went through till about 1993, then judged professionally for about 15 years. In TAS now, still riding boogers and still loving it. I remember seeing you basck in the old, old days compete with guys like Evan, Sutto, Gary Wells, Roberto Barbiero and Nigel Thompson. I remember this vid too - saw it in a Mick Simmons sport store in the 80's - they were pretty much the only retailer of Morey Boogie back then.

@elmernbugs - Hey are you Tony Sykes?

WOW. im 15 n i been bodyboarding for 7 years on tha Nshore. my dad always used to tell me storys about them bodyboarding n i never believed him. but yesterday, he took me to makena (BIGS) n he did some shit i never seen befor. he did like a rollo but he was skippin on tha wave. it wasnt a forward, reverse, ARS, invert, idk what it was.

these are da originals of bodyboarding big ups to them....it's amazing to see how much our sport has progressed in 26 years

they had same shot by arron chang in vol 2 issue 2 1986 in photo of the hot spots same issue has profile of even pengin should be able to track down a copy. 100% sure its me i know how i look what shorts i was wearing etc remember wave to this day . water patrol was sayin come here come deeper sit here yea bro right on this boil.i took off thinking wedge and went straight down instead of an angled take off. had the wave chewing on my fins as i tried to pull up barely made it. v heavy wave

also its ben doing lil flick to stay in tube at 5:46

NOT DAVE SHAW at 6:08 thats me buddy James Sowell Evan P beat me by .5 to advance thanks so much for posting I had the China walls song part posted for a while now

Thanks for posting, this is wonderful footage! Can't wait for the holidays and to get back in the water!!

hahaha i love the presentation its so funny!