If you regularly watch Jamie O’Brien’s escapades online, you may have noticed earlier this year that J.O.B. started mixing in a boogie board session here and there. In fact, at one point he teamed up with world champion bodyboarder Jeff Hubbard for what seemed like nothing more than a novelty session at the time.
Welp, O’Brien’s scored plenty of good waves at Pipe lately and maybe he’s just had his fill, because the vlog king decided to get serious about his boog ambitions, apparently. So he suited up, waxed up (at least as best as he could), got in a good stretch, and broke in a new bodyboard on a pretty solid day at the world’s most deadly wave.
“Are you gonna boogie board out there?” asks a passerby on the beach. “Why not surf?”
“Surfing’s for kooks,” O’Brien says.
Joking aside, this should offer some solid perspective on how challenging it can be to master any one discipline of waveriding. Because for a guy who makes surfing Pipe look effortless, easy, and more-or-less carefree, J.O.B.’s still-respectable bodyboard performance here isn’t in the same realm as his surfing prowess.
