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Welcome to the 15th Edition of The Bodyboard Report! 🤙
The world tour is officially in Mexico and the window at Pascuales opens on Friday the 3rd of July. That’s the day after this publication.
Mexico and was the feature of 👉 Last week’s Bodyboard Report
But, the story that really has my attention right now is what happens after Pascuales closes, because then the competitors fly to one of the most beautiful waveriding venues in the world… The Maldives! Finally a bodyboarding contest is going to Cokes!
Before all of this, around 3 weeks ago, our favourite TIC Roller once more pushed bodyboarding to historical new heights, literally by growing wings, and going higher and “more upside down” than ever before!
Video inside 👇
Grab your favourite board and a seatbelt, and let’s fly right in!
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From a fishing village to the Indian Ocean 🌴
On August 12, the IBC World Tour opens its next event at Cokes, on the island of Thulusdhoo in the Maldives, and it runs through to August 21.
Think about that for a second. One week you are standing on black sand at Boca de Pascuales, Colima, charging one of the heaviest and most unpredictable beach breaks on the Pacific coast of Mexico.
Then a month later, the same people are standing in crystal-clear Indian Ocean water on a coral island 28 kilometres north of Malé, looking at a hollow right-hand reef break that fires over a shallow coral shelf in one of the most visually stunning environments in surfing.
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To get a clear picture of what the Maldives have to offer -
👉 5 Days on a Maldives Boat Trip with two of my favorite riders, Iain Campbell and Dave Hubbard
The contrast from Mexico to Maldives is genuinely remarkable and I think it says something interesting about the range of the IBC calendar right now.
Have a look at this 👉 Inside scoop 👇
Aamin feeling at home and driving through at Miyaru Faru, South Malé Atoll
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Cokes, Chickens & a Coke factory 🥤🐔
The reason the wave is called Cokes is exactly what you think it is. There is a Coca-Cola factory on the island of Thulusdhoo, widely described as the only one in the world that uses desalinated sea water in its production process.
It sits on the island where you can see it from the lineup, and when Australian surfers started turning up in the 1970s, the wave that peeled in front of it became Cokes. The wave right next door is called Chickens, named after a chicken farm that used to occupy the uninhabited island across the channel.
Though I’ve never been there, I’ve always known about the spots, but never about the factory and the farm. One of the reasons I enjoy doing these reports.
Maldivians are extraordinary at many things, and wave naming, it turns out, they happily leave to visiting Australians.
The wave itself is a fast, hollow right-hander that breaks over a shallow coral reef. It has two main sections, a steep, heavy outer section that throws a quick barrel, and an even wider tube on the inside as the reef shallows up.
The ideal conditions are a clean south to south-east swell with north-west to north-east morning winds, and peak season is June through August, which is precisely when the IBC World Tour is landing. At those times, waves regularly hit double-overhead and the power, combined with the setting, makes for something pretty special to watch.
Chickens, the left-hander across the channel, is considered one of the longest lefts in the entire Indian Ocean, running through multiple sections and giving riders a lot of canvas to work with.
Both waves are paddle-accessible right from the beach, on an island of roughly 1,400 people who have been sharing this surf culture with the world for over 50 years.
The Maldives has been building to this 🏆
The IBC first came to the Maldives in 2022 for the inaugural Visit Maldives Pro, which was also the first time a world tour bodyboarding event had ever been held anywhere in Asia.
That event was not held at Cokes but at a wave called Varunulaa Raalhugandu, a powerful and wedgy break right on the south-east corner of the capital city Malé.
Dave Hubbard won both the men's and drop knee divisions at that event, which is an extremely rare double and had only been done once before in the sport's history.
Isabela Sousa won the women's event. A local Maldivian rider named Aamin Moosa made it to the final of an IBC World Tour event for the first time in the nation's history, which was a genuinely moving moment for the local bodyboarding community watching it unfold in their capital city.
The Maldives leg returned in 2023 and again in 2024 at the same Malé location. In 2024, Armide Soliveres from the Canary Islands beat Dave Hubbard in the men's final by just 0.25 of a point, one of the tightest finishes of the IBC season.
Japan's Namika Yamashita took the women's title that year.
Now for 2026 the tour steps away from the city wave and out to the open-ocean reef at Cokes and Thulusdhoo for the first time.
It feels like a natural evolution, a tour that started by planting its flag on Asian shores now heading out to one of the most iconic breaks in the region.
If the swell is game, then this one is going to be absolutely incredible.
Catch up on the highlights of the previous Visit Maldives Pro events
*Super cool artwork all 3 years 🤙
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(1 x Massive Ramp) + (2 x Back Flips) = History Made 🌊
The Wedge goes nuclear and Tanner goes mental!
On the 9th of June, a massive south swell, one of the biggest to hit Southern California in years, detonated at The Wedge in Newport Beach.
Tanner McDaniel executed this massive double backflip you can see here! ☝️
If you are new to bodyboarding or a cave dweller, Tanner is 27 years old, born in Santa Cruz but raised in Kauai from age 3.
He came up under the mentorship of THE GOAT Mike Stewart, which tells you everything you need to know.
Voted rookie of the year in his first season on the IBC World Tour, the youngest rider in the sport's history to earn that distinction, and the 2023 World Champ.
eBodyboarding.com's Vicki Reale caught up with Tanner at their warehouse for his own account of this historic event.
Tanner grew wings and flew to the sky.
I dub thee Pegasus. 🐴🤟
And you can hear the full story straight from the winged horse's mouth
Wrapping up this session...
Between Pascuales kicking off, the Maldives in ten days, and a double backflip that nobody had ever done before at The Wedge in California, it has been quite a week for the sport.
Tanner's big move proves to me that there are always new frontiers to conquer if we keep our heads on a swivel, search far enough, and push hard enough.
That… or grow wings.
Will there ever be a wave pool that duplicates that kind of wedge power so the double back flip can be trained to perfection?
Likely not. But, hey… Just a few years ago there were many snotty remarks about cellphones and The Terminator. Look where we are now! 🤔
I'll see you in the inbox next week.
Keep charging! 🌊
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