Chapter: 5
Barefoot Revolution
- Revolution is not a Dinner Party
- The Tao of George
- Getting Slippery with Bob McTavish
- Bismarck with a Tan
- Plastic Machine
- Enlightenment at Honolua Bay
- Panic on the Showroom Floor
- Style Takes a Dive
- Everybody Must Get Stoned
- Surfer Goes Electrical Bananas
- No Contest
- There Will be Slaps
- Kook Straps, Cadillacs, and Sex Wax
- Blame it on the Boogie
- Country Soul
- Higher and Brighter with Alby Falzon
- Fresh Blood on the Newsstand
- Long Road to Bells Beach
- Speed Freaks
- Gods of Thunder
- The Impossible Wave
- Into the Vortex
- Gerry Lopez, Pipeline Firewalker
- The Rubberman Cometh
Blame it on the Boogie
Sunset Beach. Photo: Jeff Divine
Tom Morey, 1975
Tom Morey. Photo: Bill Delaney
Jack Lindholm. Photo: Lance Trout
Mike Stewart, around 1987
The Morey Boogie was cheap, safe, indestructible, easily transportable, fun from the moment it hit the water—a surfboard was none of those things—and the bodyboard industry began posting sales figures the likes of which boardmakers only dreamt of.
The bodyboard was invented by longtime Southern California surfer Tom Morey, a charismatic USC math grad who’d worked as a Douglas Aircraft engineer before opening a Ventura County surf shop in 1964. Equal parts scientist, futurist, and carnival barker, Morey spent the rest of the '60s bringing strange new products to the surf marketplace. First was the Trisect, a three-piece travel surfboard that...
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