Mike Stewart (bodyboarder)

Mike Stewart (b. 1964) 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.

Biography

Having ridden bodyboards since the inception of the sport he is the most experienced bodyboarder currently on the tour.

Mike Stewart was the first 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.

External links

• Mike Stewart at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.mikestewart.com/
• http://www.viperfins.com/
• http://www.pipebodysurf.com/
• http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Broadland