bodysurfer

Was always one of the strongest swimmers in the field and a great bodysurfer.

I rode the crest like a bodysurfer planing ahead of a tidal wave.

Letham was 15 at the time, but an accomplished swimmer and bodysurfer, and known as something of a tomboy.

According to David Parrish, a lifeguard, poet and bodysurfer, "It's like flying into the wind."

His credits during this time include the Nature of Australia series, A Dangerous Life, Bodysurfer, Police Rescue and Come in Spinner.

"To my knowledge, the injuries that Gail's husband experienced have never occurred on our beach," said Mayor Philip J. Guenther, a former lifeguard and still an avid bodysurfer.

Having grown up in the area of southern California that teenagers all over the world now know as the OC, Maia became a bodysurfer who at 15 was sponsored to ride dangerous breaks.

Mike Stewart (b. 1964) is a nine-time World Champion bodyboarder, one of the early pioneers of the bodyboarding sport, a pioneer of big-wave tow-in surfing and also a champion bodysurfer.

Another Hawaiian word for bodysurfing, kaha, means to engrave or slice, which is what a skilled bodysurfer does on the wall of the wave, often getting tubed, or barreled, as it curls about a hollow center.

Dana T. Rohrabacher was a bodysurfer off the California beaches of Torrance and Long Beach before he began organizing youth support for a 1966 candidate for Governor - Ronald Reagan - and he rode the conservative wave to the White House.

The front new "Obama Surfs" T-shirt reads "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, President Obama 2009," alongside a wave-riding bodysurfer and the Hawaiian Island chain, while "Obama Surfs" over a barreling wave is printed on the back.