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*Prone and Kneeling Craft - Paipo, Lamaroo, Bellyboard, Surf-o-plane, Coolite, Kneeboard, Spoon, Slab, Mat, Boogie, etc

#00000335	1920	Risby Bros. Prone board (Lamaroo), 3ft 6''
#00000172	1930	Solid wood Bellyboard 4 ft 5''
#00000173	1930	Solid wood Bellyboard 4 ft 3''
#00000146	1933	Surf-o-plane, Dr Ernest Smithers
#00000166	1950	Lamaroo 5ft 1''
#00000233	1950	Lamaroo 5ft 6''
#00000113	1956	Paipo, Balsa 3ft 8"
#00000325	1953	Plywood Bellyboard 2ft 11''
#00000194	1960	Paipo Bellyboard 2 ft 8''
#00000204	1960	Plywood Bellyboard Twin fin 'Rocket' 4ft 6''
#00000193	1960	Paipo by Farfor, 3 ft 5'' Tapa cloth laminated bottom
#00000307	1960	Bill Wallace Balsa Bellyboard 4 ft
#00000050	1963	Barry Bennett, Bellyboard Twin fin 5ft 1"
#00000311	1964	McDonagh Twin Fin Kneeboard 4 ft 9''
#00000313	1964	Wallace Belly/Knee board 5ft 3''
#00000197	1966	Bay Area Belly board 5 ft 5''
#00000219	1974	Barry Bennett Kneeboard 5 ft 7''
#00000147	1969	Surf-o-plane Marlin model, surfer Nick Carroll
#00000034	1972	Midget Farrelly, Coolite 4 ft 10" Rubber fin
#00000195	1970	The Shoe by Shane, 4 ft 11''. Spooned deck kneeboard.
#00000203	1970	Zippy Board Small 'Hunters Toyline' 16''
#00000076	1973	Jackson, Greenough Spoon 5 ft 10"
#00000320	1973	Ron Wade Spoon 4ft 8''
#00000083	1973	Barry Taylor, Flextail Kneeboard 5 ft 6" Hand made fin box
#00000202	1973	Zippy Board Large 'Super Surfer' 3ft
#00000227	1975	Rod Ball Design Ski tail Kneeboard 5ft 8
#00000068	1975?	Backyard, Spoon deck Kneeboard 5ft 6"
#00000150	1975	Belly Bogger 3ft 7''
#00000066	1976	Merrin, Air mat twin fin 5 ft 4"
#00000058	1976	Crozier, Kneeboard Slab 5 ft 4" Tri boxes
#00000310	1978	Sky Kneeboard 5 ft 8 1/2"George Greenough Design Shaped by Chris Brock
#00000342	1980	Crozier Tri fin Kneeboard, 5ft 7'', Shaped by Peter Crawford.
#00000088	1980	Coolite Twin fin adaptation
#00000030	1980	Morey Boogie, Mach 7
#00000206	1985	Express Four fin Kneeboard 5 ft 7''
#00000205	1989	The Pod - Molded Handboard 12''
#00000091	1990	Zero Utra Light (Thruster Coolite) 5 ft

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Paipo Catalogue for...
Rod Rodgers, Baltimore, Maryland : My Paipo Boards and ...More.

Before bodyboards there was plywood.
Sean Ross, Pipeline, Hawaii.
Board by Paul Lindbergh's Hawaii Paipo Designs.
Photo: Alan (Bud) McCray.
Sean was a life guard at the Ehukai Beach (Pipeline) during the1970's.
Photo courtesy Rod Rodgers

David Swanson and his and Val Valentine's
Paipo Collection, Haleiwa, 2000.
Photo and article by David Pu'u
The Surfer's Journal,
Vol 9 No 3, 2000 Pages 122-123

Paipo, Lamaroo, Bellyboard, Surf-o-plane, Coolite, Kneeboard, Spoon, Slab, Mat, Boogie

Often denegated, usually ignored, prone surfboards play an integral part in surfboard design and riding performance.
Note..
1. The art of Hawaiian surfriding as evidenced by Captain Cook in 1770 must have developed in the Pacific islands over centuries. Obviously the initial ventures would have been on small boards in small surf, close to shore. Only with a vast increase in skill and experience over a long time and the availability of suitable materials (for example wili wili, an Hawaiian equivalent of balsa wood) would stand up surfing be possible.
2. Most surfers begin their surfing on prone boards - for example Mark Richards on a Surf-o-plane and Tom Carroll on a Coolite.
3. Many surfboard design features have either been initially developed or taken to their extremes by non-standup surfers, for example George Greenough.
4. In many cases, performance levels have been set by prone/kneel boards. This was partically the case up to 1974, before the introduction of the legrope. Prone or knee boarders, by virtue of their proximity, have more control of the board during wipe outs and this enabled them to ride deeper in the wave with confidence and to dominate at breaks were wipeouts were board destroying, for example Little Avalon, Sydney.
5. Subequent to the general adoption of the legrope, prone craft still establish some performance levels. Photographic evidence appears to confirm that Boogie riders ride deer and longer in the tube.
6. In other performance areas, such as "getting air", the manourves were established by Boogie riders ten years before being adapte by standup surfers.

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