What would you like to say to bodyboarders and the bodyboarding industry in general?
RB: The sport is being used and abused and taken advantage of by things that are going on that everyone has to be made aware of. If we look at the bodyboarding magazines, which is the nucleus of the sport–take a look at a 1985 magazine. The sport was growing, it was booming. Now it’s (the magazine is) just a little too thin to my liking. What you see happening is that stores that are selling bodyboards are not part of the industry–they are not committed to helping the sport, they are just selling the product. So the buyer gets the board at a cheap price, but in a way you are only hurting yourself when you buy a board from someone who doesn’t advertise in the magazines. But guess what, most of the stores who sell bodyboards are also selling surfboards and you kinda know that they’re not going to advertise because it would hurt their surfboard image. For the sport to progress, the riders have to realize that where you spend the money is very important. For the sport to grow, people mus
