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	1920 Risby Bros. Solid wood Belly Board 3ft 6''
	1930 Solid Wood Belly Board           4ft   5 1/2"
	1930   Solid Wood Belly Board           4ft 3 "
	1933  Surf-o-plane,  Dr Ernest Smithers
	1950 Lamaroo 5ft 1''
	1953 Plywood Bellyboard 2ft 11''
	1956 Paipo, Balsa  3ft 8"
	1960 Paipo Bellyboard  2 ft 8''
	1960 Plywood Bellyboard Twin fin 'Rocket'  3 ft 2''
	1960 Paipo by Farfor, 3 ft 5''  Tapa cloth laminated bottom
	1960 Bill Wallace Balsa Bellyboard 4 ft
	1963 Barry Bennett, Bellyboard Twin fin 5ft 1"
	1963 Bill Wallace, Kneeboard  5ft 3"
	1964 McDonagh Twin Fin Kneeboard 4 ft 9''
	1966  Bay Area   Belly/Knee Board       5 ft 5"
	1967         Barry Bennett  Kneeboard 5 ft 7''
	1969 Surf-o-plane Marlin model, surfer Nick Carroll
	1970  The Shoe by Shane.  Spoon decked  Knee Board       4 ft 11"
	1970  Zippy Board Small 'Hunters Toyline' 16''
	1972 Midget Farrelly, Coolite 4 ft 10" Rubber fin
	1973Jackson, Greenough Spoon 5 ft 10"
	1973Ron Wade Spoon 4ft 8''
	1973  Barry Taylor, Flextail Kneeboard 5 ft 6"  Hand made fin box
	1973 Zippy Board Large 'Super Surfer' 3ft
	1975? Backyard,  Spoon deck Kneeboard 5ft 6"
	1975 Rod Ball Design Ski tail Kneeboard 5ft 8
	1975 Belly Bogger 3ft 7''
	1976 Molded plastic handboard, 15 1/2''
	1976 Merrin, Air mat twin fin 5 ft 4"
	1976 Crozier, Kneeboard  Slab 5 ft 4" Tri boxes
	1978 Sky Kneeboard 5 ft 8 1/2" George Greenough Design Shaped by Chris Brock
	1980 Coolite Twin fin adaptation
	1980 Morey Boogie, Mach 7
	1985  Express Four fin Kneeboard 5 ft 7''
	1989 The Pod - Molded Handboard 12''
	1990 Zero Utra Light (Thruster Coolite)  5 ft

Before bodyboards there was plywood. Paipo rider Sean Ross, Pipeline, Hawaii.  Photo: Alan (Bud) McCray, Photo courtesy Rod Rogers

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

There no use of the term "paipo" before about 1960, about the time the specific design noted above was developed.
It does not appear to be a traditional Hawaiian surboard term and does not appear as such in
Pukui, Mary Kawena and Elbert, Samuel H.: Hawaiian Dictionary : Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian.
Revised and Enlarged Edition.
University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1986.

There is the term "pa ipu" (the a has an overmark) meaning "Calabash, wooden dish in general cooking utensil, bowl", page 303, which perhaps was adapted circa 1960 as a description of the dished nose design.

"A Hawiian surfer cuts a fast right slide  in standing crouch on the zippy skim or  belly board at Kuhio pier, Waikiki. Photo by Val Valentine." Kelly (1965), facing page 192.