Category Archive: Rider Recognition

Name: Adam Cheers
DOB: 03.06.1983
Hometown: Tuncurry
Bodyboarding Since: About 10 years old
Bodyboarding Highlights: Getting my first slick bottom board, watching Underground Tapes, No Friends videos, ’97 pipe comp, meeting Mike Stewart, finally doing state, nationals and pro tour events.
Dreams For The Future: Enjoy life, hopefully still be bodyboarding, become part of the industry in some way or another to help out future growth.
Favourite Wave: Tuncurry
Favourite More: Barrels and inverts
Current Rig And Why: 41.25″ Science Zero loaded core for my prone/dk and the 42″ Science hybrid for my all out DK shape.
Sponsors: District 5 Bodyboard Shop, Warners Bay

Photo by Anthony Murphy

Name: Will Kennedy
DOB: 23.03.1979
Hometown: Forster
Bodyboarding Since: 15 years old
Bodyboarding Highlights: Picking the sled back up after spending 9 years trying to make my millions working in the big smoke.
Dreams For The Future: Continue to spend time with my children, showing them having the most  money is not the sole purpose of life and to keep there stoke alive.
Favourite Wave: Fave wave would be a ‘lil back beach near home (Forster)
Favourite More: Clean barrels to forward off the lip
Current Rig And Why: NMD Winchester – sorta borrowed it off my nephew and never gave it back plus it’s a pretty smooth ride.
Sponsors: None

Name: Logan Morgan
DOB: 21.08.1998
Hometown: Forster
Bodyboarding Since: Early last year
Bodyboarding Highlights: Bodyboarding on the South Coast
Dreams for the Future: Bodyboard hopefully
Favourite Wave: Burgess wedge
Favourite Move: ARS/Flip
Current Rig And Why: Turbo 5. Just a good board.
Current Sponsors: none

Name: Jake Mauger
DOB: 09.07.95
Hometown: Tuncurry
Bodyboarding Since: About 5 years old , but taking it seriously only the last few years
Bodyboarding Highlights: 1st place in monthly FTBA comp
Dreams For The Future: Continue to improve my bodyboarding as well as just to continue having fun with mates, also to try and have a crack at a few bigger comps.
Favourite Wave: Tuncurry off the wall
Favourite More: Rolls
Current Rig And Why: VS Joe Clarke Model because I love the feel of it and it’s easy to generate lots of speed for bigger moves.
Sponsors: None

FTBA would like to introduce its youngest Member Billy Kennedy

Billy is 8 years old and has been finding his feet (or fins) since 4 years, where he would practice with father William Kennedy’s help in the Bullring with board and fins to get his balance and grip on board.

Today, Billy is one of our most progressive riders in A Division – yesterday after school he raced down to Tunners and was charging some good 2+ft slabs with long bottom hand turns racing the peak, big cutty’s and peace sign while in the barrel.

This is what GRASS ROOTS is all about – if you have a child wanting to slide, don’t stop them, jump right in and help them out.

Photos: 4yrs in Bullring, 8yrs old at Lizzy’s scooping, 8yrs old in Lizzy’s Barrel, 8yrs old night sliding Burgo, Billy after his heat on Sunday at Tuncurry in 3-4ft perfect Tuncurry, coming in from his second heat in 3-4ft waves, smiles tell a million stories…. more stories to come!