Mike Stewart
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Mike Stewart is a nine-time World Champion bodyboarder, one of the early pioneers of the bodyboarding sport, a pioneer of big-wave tow-in surfing and also a champion bodysurfer.
Mike Stewart was the first non local to surf Teahupoo in 1987 and it soon became an underground spot for thrill-seeking bodyboarders. Few professional surfers rode Teahupoo during the early '90s and it was only in 1998, at the Gotcha Tahiti Pro. since then,Teahupoo became recognized as one of the best surf spots in the world.
He has won the annual Banzai Pipeline
event a record 11 times, from which 9 earned him the world title, and has been crowned the Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic
champion a record 13 times. He is the only bodyboarder to have been competing in the Banzai Pipeline event since 1982.
He has received the title Mister Pipeline
for being the best wave rider of any kind, the only non stand-up surfer to achieve this title.
Mike has released his own line of Bodyboards called Science.
Hailing from the Big Island of Hawai'i, he is father to two kids and now lives on Oahu
with his family.
He has recently finished an Australian and American Tour premiering his new film "Fire" created and directed by filmmaker Scott Carter.
Stewart appears in the 1998 Zalman King
film In God’s Hands.
Biography
Having ridden bodyboards since the inception of the sport he is the most experienced bodyboarders currently on the tour.Mike Stewart was the first non local to surf Teahupoo in 1987 and it soon became an underground spot for thrill-seeking bodyboarders. Few professional surfers rode Teahupoo during the early '90s and it was only in 1998, at the Gotcha Tahiti Pro. since then,Teahupoo became recognized as one of the best surf spots in the world.
He has won the annual Banzai Pipeline
Banzai Pipeline
The Banzai Pipeline, or simply "Pipeline" or "Pipe," is a surf reef break located in Hawaii, off Ehukai Beach Park in Pupukea on O'ahu's North Shore. A reef break is an area in the ocean where waves start to break once they reach the shallows of a reef...
event a record 11 times, from which 9 earned him the world title, and has been crowned the Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic
Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic
The Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic is a bodysurfing competition held annually during the Winter season at the Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of the island of Oahu in Hawaii....
champion a record 13 times. He is the only bodyboarder to have been competing in the Banzai Pipeline event since 1982.
He has received the title Mister Pipeline
Mister Pipeline
Mister Pipeline is a title given to masters of the waves at the North Shore's Pipeline. It was first given to Butch Van Artsdalen, and is passed on from generation to generation, by consensus. Other holders of the title have included sometime actor Gerry Lopez and bodyboarding legend Mike Stewart....
for being the best wave rider of any kind, the only non stand-up surfer to achieve this title.
Mike has released his own line of Bodyboards called Science.
Hailing from the Big Island of Hawai'i, he is father to two kids and now lives on Oahu
Oahu
Oahu or Oahu , known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The state capital Honolulu is located on the southeast coast...
with his family.
He has recently finished an Australian and American Tour premiering his new film "Fire" created and directed by filmmaker Scott Carter.
Stewart appears in the 1998 Zalman King
Zalman King
Zalman King is an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His directing and writing productions are known for incorporating erotica as a centerpiece to plots which are nevertheless about greater issues.-Acting:As a young man in 1963 he played a gang member on Alfred Hitchcock Presents...
film In God’s Hands.
External links
- http://www.mikestewart.com/
- http://www.viperfins.com/
- http://www.pipebodysurf.com/
- http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Broadland