Body Surfing Contests

This is the slyde calender! It contains interesting events for all sorts of great stuff, including Bodysurfing/Handboarding events, fun stuff to do around LA and especially Venice, drink specials happy hrs etc. let us know email US if you have anything you want to add

Bodysurfing and Handboarding/handplaning events

 Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic
 The World Bodysurfing Championships
 Manhattan Beach Bodysurfing Contest
 Torneo Internacional de Bodysurf Las Escolleras
 Northern California Bodysurfing Championships / Santa Cruz Cold Water Classic
 Redwings Memorial Championships of Handboarding
 Newcastle Bodysurfing Challenge
 The San Francisco Bodysurf Classic
 Brazilian Bodysurfing Contest
 Big Island Bodysurfing Championships

Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic

Pipeline, North Shore Oahu, Hawai'i January - February
The Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic is a bodysurfing competition held annually during the Winter season at the Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of the island of Oahu in Hawaii. This competition is seen among the Body surfing world as the elite Bodysurfing tournament in the world today and is the only time that bodysurfers and paipo riders get to ride Pipeline completely alone

The goals (and historical precedent) for the Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic are based on the original concept of the North Shore Expressive / Paipo bodysurfing event. The Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic first ran February 1971 (which preceded the Pipe Masters, which ran December 1971). Therefore, the Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic was the first surfing event at Pipeline (Ehukai Beach Park) on the North Shore of Oahu.

The Event was originally hosted by the Honolulu City Parks Department (to promote water safety and wave consciousness), as a multi-division bodysurfing, handboard and skegless paipo board competition open to both men and women. Eventually, the event was adopted by the North Shore Bodysurfing Club in Haleiwa, Hawaii.

Mike Stewart has won the event 13 times. winning his 13th title in 2011
Mark Cunningham who has won the title 6 times

The Pipeline classic has had problems in the past with getting the go ahead as the permits to use pipeline exclusively is scarce to say the least so please go here and support the 2012 event to make sure this continuesas it has in previous years

The World Bodysurfing Championships

August 20-21
The World Bodysurfing Championships are held next to the Oceanside Pier, in Oceanside California. This event was started was started in 1977 and is held every year in August . Approximately 350-400 bodysurfers from around the world compete in their respective age divisions for trophies and prizes.

Manhattan Beach Bodysurfing Contest

August 3rd, 4th and 5th
This event is held in Manhattan Beach, California. The contest is sponsored by the oldest bodysurfing club in The United States, Gillis Beach Bodysurfing Association. Dating back to 1964, the GBBA formed on the beaches of Playa Del Rey in Los Angeles. Members of GBBA run the bodysurfing contest, but do not participate in the interest of promoting the sport. The contest is a part of the International Surf Festival held late July or the first of August annually. The surf festival is known for its volleyball, lifeguard competition and the bodysurfing contests and attracts thousands of people to the weekend long events

Torneo Internacional de Bodysurf Las Escolleras

Mexico, April-June
This competition is held in Mexico, between April and June in Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, at Las Escolleras beach, a powerful wave with spitting barrels. The event is held over two days and unlike the other competitions does not charge an entrance fee and there are awards for well placed contestants and apparently there is a huge party atmosphere at the event

Northern California Bodysurfing Championships / Santa Cruz Cold Water Classic

Lagunitas Creek, Santa Cruz, California, March-April
Each year In march and April, over seventy-five bodysurfers and two hundred spectators will gather in Santa Cruz, California for 2 days of competition and camaraderie. Champion bodysurfers from all over California make this contest one of the most challenging and fun events of the year. The Santa Cruz Bodysurfing Association (SCBSA) was formed as a nonprofit organization by a group of local swimmers in 1984.

 

Redwings Memorial Championships of Handboarding

Point Panic, O`AHU, September 10, 2011 (Summer Holding Period)
The annual REDWINGS Memorial World Championships of Handboarding is held at Point Panic on Oahu and features some of Hawaii’s best watermen and women. It is sponsored by CTS Foundation, which is incorporated in the State of Hawaii.

Newcastle Bodysurfing Challenge

Saturday 30th July. 8am, Avalon Beach, Aus
Don McCredie
Bodysurfing Australia Inc.
Po Box 547 Avalon Beach
NSW 2107 AUSTRALIA
T: +61 (0) 2 99732038
E: don@hydro.ws

The San Francisco Bodysurf Classic

November 5th, 2011 at 10:00am
The Bodysurf Classic to be held in San Francisco, Ocean Beach on November 5th, 2011 at 10:00am. The specific location to be determined on the day of the event. The location will be posted here on the official event website and in the window of Trouble Coffee, 4033 Judah St (between 45th Ave & 46th Ave) San Francisco CA 94122. There will be a $15.00 entrance fee for competitors (fee will include event T-shirt). The 6 person heats will be run on a first come, first serve basis. All heats are gender and age neutral.

Brazilian Bodysurfing Contest

Rio de Janero-Copacabana Beach, Brazil December

Big Island Bodysurfing Championships

Waipio Valley, Big Island, Hawaii February