MSW's Best of Bodyboarding » Puerto Escondido / Mexico

So the surfing world hates bodyboarding, has marginalised and made fun of it? So many jokes and derogatory terms exist for our prone cousins that you think they must have collectively committed a horrendous crime. The pack mentality behind this is arguably largely based on nothing but the desire to feel 'in' with your sub-culture and perhaps a means of defining your boundaries is to attack another. Identity often being defined by opposition. But to sit down and think about it, logically, bodyboarders pioneered numerous insane breaks and has allowed surfers to realise what is possible. In all honestly the surfing world owes a debt of gratitude to those pioneers. Bodyboarding conversely has in some ways benefited from being marginalised, free from brand-dictation, its core group relishing their outsider status, and this feature is a peek behind that curtain from the photographer's perspective.

Pictured above is Jose Octavio from Brazil dodging through a horrendous looking Puerto Escondido barrel, sequence by Daniela Ramos of RPM Surfer.

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