• Atlantic Surfing (ATS). First published Summer 1965, by Chapey and Gundersen. According to Surfing Collectibles Guide author Tim De La Vega, "the 'right coast' was never too far behind with these nicely produced magazines. Sadly, their staying power was never very long." There were only 10 issues published total.
• Australian Longboarding Magazine (ALB). First published in Autumn 1998.
• International Surfing (ISM). (Dick Graham) In 1974, Lopez Publications dropped "International" from their name to create "Surfing Magazine." The publishers noted, "When we, Richard Graham and Leroy Grannis, received word that Petersen's Surfing magazine was no longer being published as a monthly, we began looking around for backers to enable us to continue the magazine." This quote from the editorial herewith sums up how the present-day Surfing Magazine started so many years ago. Vol 1 (1964) through Vol. 9 (1973).
• Petersen's Surfing Magazine (PSM). Petersen published the first Surfing Magazine in December 1963 (Vol. 1, No. 1) and the last in the series was published November 1964 (Vol. 1, No. 8).
• Petersen's Surfing Yearbook (PSY). The first Yearbook was published before Surfing  magazine's first issue, about the same time that SURFER published its first photo annual, according to Surfing Collectibles Guide author Tim DeLaVega. Petersen published four yearbooks, in 1963, 1965, 1966, and 1969.
  
• Surf Guide (SG). Bill Cleary, former editor; John Van Hamersveld, former art director; Larry Stevenson, former publisher. Published 1963-1965. More history is discussed here.
  
• Surf International (SIN). Editors: John Witzig, Paul Koller. Vol. 1, No. 1, was published December 1967 - January 1968. An  upmarket, alternative to Surfing World. Introduced music, lifestyle, enviroment and politics. The dates of Surf International magazines are not specified in the publication details. Some commentators have dated this issue September 1967, yet the cover article on the Newcastle Contest notes it was won by Russell Hughes on 10th September 1967. Given the publishing lag in this period (up to 6 weeks), a later date seems reasonable. The magazine's agenda was to be futher explored by Witzig in Tracks magazine. Published around 1967-1970, by Gareth Powell Associates. Information compliments of surfresearch.com.au.
• Surfabout: Australasian Surfer (SAS). In August 1962, Surfabout Australasian Surfer was published as a quarterly that would run for 24 issues until 1968. In the debut issue, editorial staff included Jack Eden who was credited as photographer and co-editor; Garry Birdsall was credited as cartoonist and co-editor, and Bob Weeks was credited as photographer. Source: Paul Scott (2005, 29 Nov-2 Dec). Australian Surfing Magazines: The First Wave (1961-1962). Refereed paper presented to the Journalism Education Conference, Griffith University.
  
• Surfer Magazine (SMQ). Also known as The Surfer Quarterly, The Surfer Bi-Monthly, Surfer.
• Surfer's Path, The (TSP). Started publication in 1997 in the UK. According to Wikipedia, "The Surfer's Path is an international surfing journal which is published every two months. Founded in 1997, the magazine is a bit of an anomaly in the surf-publishing world. Based in the United Kingdom, the Path is low-key and philosophical. From the start, its Caribbean-born editor, Alex Dick-Read, aimed the mag at the environmentally and culturally conscious global surf traveler. The magazine has its international headquarters in Oxon in England with publishing offices in New York City. An American edition of the magazine was formerly edited by Drew Kampion from Washington State. The magazine's website has full information and upates: click-surf to www.surferspath.com."
  
• Surfing Action (SAP). Published by Petersen, 1968-1972, also known as Surfing. Petersen Publishing decided to make another go at it with this magazine, according to Tim DeLaVega, author of the Surfing Collectibles Guide. Editor Richard Graham started off with America's first shortboard cover and this magazine covered quite a bit of the new counter culture movement. The magazine barely made in into the 70s before Petersen finally gave up in 1972.
• Surfing East (SNE). Published by Richard S. Van Winkle, for three years, 1965-67, and nine issues. Focused on the North East and based out of Ridgewood, NJ. Considered to be poorly edited and focused on contests.
• Surfing Illustrated (SIL). Published by Walt Phillips from 1962-1967. Photographer Leroy Grannis had a major influence on classic covers and layouts. Phillips also produced surf films and TV shows, "Surf's Up" and "Walt Phillips' Surfing World." (Sources: Tim DeLaVega' Surfing Collectibles Guide, 2000; Matt Warshaw's Encyclopedia of Surfing; vol. 4, no. 1, June 1966.) Published by Jack Pelzer and Edited by Peter L. Dixon beginning with v4n1 (June 1966).
  
• Surfing Magazine (ISM). In 1974, Lopez Publications dropped "International" from their name to create "Surfing Magazine." In 1974, Lopez Publications dropped "International" from their name to create "Surfing Magazine," which has become a household name in surf mags and SURFER's primary competitor for the last 30 years. This publication should not be confused with "Petersen's Surfing," which thrived in the 1960s. Vol 10 (1974) to present.
• Surfing World (ASW). Vol. 1, No. 1 was published Sept. 1962, edited by Bob Evans. First issue was titled The Surfing World Monthly and The Australian Surfing Magazine, and is also known as Australia's Surfing World. Still published today, it was and is "a monthly magazine published in the interests of promoting surfing in Australia and overseas." Editor 1966: Albert Falzon, others include John Witzig, Bruce Channon.
  
• The Surfer's Journal (TSJ). Published by Steve Pezman (former Publisher, Surfer Magazine) and Debbee Pezman (former Marketing Director, Surfer Magazine), the Journal was founded in 1992.
• Tracks. Published since...
• TransWorld Surf (TWS). Published since 1999. Chris Coté, Editor-in-Chief (2010). Located in Oceanside, CA.
• Miscellaneous Magazines (Non-surfing -- please note that some magazine articles are listed in the bibliography and annotated bibliography rather then here.)
  

• Smith, Bob (Boardroom Bob). (2010, November/December). Bellyboards, Paipo Nuis & Belloomers: The history and resurgence of an ancient craft. Australian Longboarding Magazine, 72, 50-52. Article with photographs, pp. 26,28. Click on the link to the article pages here (JPG): Page 26 - Page 28

All around the article does well until it crumbles into some of the all too customary characterizations, "... a special emotional moment for all that had Chris quietly pondering whether he could have been a stand-up surfer after all." "... the first surfcraft for many, and a developmental link in an ongoing historical progression that now seems to he embracing all aspects of its past." A critical reading of the article would seem to indicate that stand-up foot riding on the paipo is required in order to "validate" a board-type intended to be ridden prone... for the joy of it! Some good historical nuggets and a nice collection of boards are shown on p. 26.

• Valentine, Val. (1965, October). Paipo Nui. International Surfing Magazine, 1(6), 50-52. Story about how John Waidelich evolved from being a bodysurfer to becoming an avid paipo boarder. He gradually improved the board from a basic slab of marine ply to a highly articulated board with a scooped nose and a larger planing area in the aft section resulting in a delta shape. Commercially, this shape became known as the Paipo Nui and went on to be ridden on the famous North Shore breaks, including Waimea Bay. Article with photographs, pp. 50-52. Click on the link to the article pages here (JPG): Page 50 - Page 51 - Page 52.
  
• Haworth, Ron. (1965, October). Surfing Girl of the Month: Nina Cherry. International Surfing Magazine, 1(6), 55. One page cameo on water woman Nina Cherry. An accomplished bodysurfer, she was also a paipo rider, stand-up surfer and a member of a wahine paddling team at the Outrigger Canoe Club. Click on the link to the article pages here (JPG), Page 55.

• Unkown. (1965). Belly Boarding: You've got to have the stomach for it... . Petersen's Surfing Yearbook Number Two, 192-195. Los Angeles, Calif.: Petersen Publishing Co.

Excerpt from the section titled Offbeat Surfing: You name away - somebody's already tried it. Article with photographs, pp. 192-195. Click on the link to the article here in PDF [4.5MB].

• Haworth, Ron. (1966). Belly Boarding. Petersen's Surfing Yearbook Number Three, 108-111. Los Angeles, Calif.: Petersen Publishing Co.

"The bellyboarding fan finds a whole new dimension in surfing because he gets a faster
ride on a wave than a regular board rider, particularly on the drop down the curl." Article with photographs, pp. 108-111. Click on the link to the article here in PDF [725KB]. Click here for JPG images: p108 websized | hi-rez; p109 websized | hi-rez; p110 websized | hi-rez; p111 websized | hi-rez; photo spread on pp110-1 websized | hi-rez

• Valentine, Val. (1965, January). It's Smaller, Faster and 300 years Old: The Paipo Board. Surf Guide, 3(1), 17-19. Article with photographs, pp. 17-19. The article touches upon the early history of the paipo board in ancient Polynesian times up through the then current types of paipos in Hawai`i. The article implies that all paipos are made of wood, vary in craftsmanship from the plain plank to sophisticated woodworkings and sealants (oil or fiberglass), and may or may not have a skeg. There is also mention of experimentation with a hydrofoil paipo. The article cites the recent development of the delta shape board and a commercial version called the Paipo Nui. Also mentions that the word paipo is not in the Hawai`ian dictionary and speculates how the word was derived. Click on the link to the article here in PDF [700KMB], or JPG image files of about 450KB each [p17,  p18,  p19].
  

• Magazine Cover Shot. (1969). Nat Young at Winkipop, 1969. Surf International, 2(4), cover. Magazine cover.
  

  This issue features a cover shot of Australian surf rider Nat Young at Winki in 1969. The paipo rider in front of Young is Jeff Callaghan, confirmed by both Rocky Hall and Jeff Callaghan. In a review of John Witzig's newly published Surfing Photographs From the 1960s and '70s, Geoff Cater of surfresearch.com.au notes that the photograph, "Nat Young at Winkipop, 1969," was originally published in 1969 on the cover of Witizig's Surf International magazine (Vol. 2, No. 4) and that the bellyboardrider (riding on the outside of Nat) has apparently been brushed out of the later version.

• Unknown (1963, Winter). Spotlight on Hawaii, Surfabout 2(6), 13-19. The photo shown below appears on p.17. Thanks to Henry Marfleet for this contribution. (Click on image for a larger viewing.)
  

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• Unknown. (1965, Summer). Belly Boards. Surfabout: Australasian Surfer, 3(1), 44-46. An article on bellyboarding. Click on the link to the article here in PDF [700KMB], or JPG image files of about 300KB each [p44,  p45,  p46].

Jack Evans took the photos on the cover at Cronulla Pt. He was consulting editor by this time. Reg Millar was editor.

General notes and comments from the article: Introduction makes a distinction between the belly board and the paipo board, noting, "Belly boards are made of laminated wood or foam. The size is usually 2 feet. x 3 feet and they have two skegs. The Paipo board is at times called the belly board, but this is incorrect." Continuing, "The Paipo is an entirely different type of board. Saucer-shaped, sometimes made of ply or balsa covered with fibreglass, the name Paipo is derived from the Hawaiian word "Paepae" which means in a slapping manner."  More to the point, "Belly boards or Paipos simply mean a body-planing board. Candy Calhoun, mat rider. "Girls, too, are taking kindly to mat riding - one notable fern in the sport is Candy Calhoun, of America, who hasbecome an expert in this phase of surfing." "Bozo" Griffith has become a top belly board rider and has given up his surfboard to concentrate on mastering this art. Bellyboard is spelled with two words, "belly board."  Belly boarders make the cover shot! Is this the only instance of a cover? Puurri from the paipo forums tells us that he is the bodysurfer pictured in p. 45; the pictures were of Cronulla Point; the girl on p. 46 is Julie Gibson and she still bodysurfs though mainly at Curl Curl; and that Jack Eden Jack  used these photos in a book he did on Oz surfing.

• Unknown. (1965). Bellyboarding a sport!!! Surfer Magazine, 6(4), 54-57.

Click on pic for a PDF version. Hi-Rez image files: page 54, page 55, page 57.
Summary:

• Unknown. (1967, September). The Unsung Body Surfer. Surfer Magazine, 8(4), 73. Excerpt of article cameo of Bob Gardner, with photograph, p. 73. Click on the link to the article here in PDF [5.5MB].

• Kampion, Drew. (1969, September). one step beyond... The Legend of Spyder Wills. Surfer Magazine, 10(4), 100-103. Article with photographs, pp. 100-103. Click on the link to the article here in PDF [5.5MB].

• Unknown. (1970, May). Toward Unencumbered Flight. Surfer Magazine, 11(2), 110-117. Link to the introduction and the three supporting articles is here in PDF [6.5MB].
• Introduction, pp. 110-111.
• Crandall, Gary. Potato Chip Thrills In a Washing Machine, 112.
• Romanosky,Ron. A Wilderness of Knees and Spoons, 113.
• Ramuno, John. Specifications for the Revolution, 114-117.

• Carson, David & Kenvin, Richard. (2009/2010, December/January). Deaf Musicians and Silent Dancing: Wave Riding with Richard Kenvin. The Surfer's Path, 75, 40-53. Article with several photographs. Below is an excerpt from the article that discusses paipo boarding. Also see this section in PDF format.
  

• Sankey, Mark. (2010, August/September). "The functional art of paipo glide," in Ripples & bombs - Shapers first hand. Surfer's Path, 79, 32.  Article about the paipo glide boards built by Andy Bick, in Cornwall, UK. Click pic for a largr JPG or read it in PDF.

  Snippets from the article "My first board was just an experiment," says Andy. "It was much too wide and thick, but it worked." Since that first board five years ago, Andy has developed his own blends of rocker, foil, rails and concaves to achieve the combination of drift and performance he's looking for in a prone position. According to Andy, normal foam bodyboards just don't compare. "These boards are really fast," he says. ''And personally, I just love the feel of a wood board - they're that much more in tune with the ocean, plus they look good." He's embracing neighbouring Homeblowns evolving bio foam and resin.

• Shipman, Chuck. (1969, September/October). Heritage Series: Surfing at the time of Capt. Cook. Surfing Action, 2(5), 68-70.
  My reading of the article is that a board similar to what is now called the Alaia was most popular and that this board was usually ridden prone. There is a mention of some very skilled riders that rode on their knees or standing. Certainly provides a good departure point for some serious research. Click here for a PDF version [2GB] and Hi-Rez image files: page 1, page 2, page 3 [200KB each].

• Newell, Skip. (1970, January/February). Paipo Part I: It's not how long you make it... . Surfing Action, 3(1), 56-59.
  First in a 3-part series focused on the paipo board. Click here for a PDF version [400KB].

  Bob Simmons built a modern day balsa paipo around 1950. Skip Newell produced the Newport Paipo. Con Colburn also shaped for Newport Paipo board builder. Bud Hulst is the manufacturer of the El Paipo "spoon" shape. Jack Hokanson, of Jack's Surfshop, was the first to market mass produced belly boards.

  "Almost twenty years ago,1 some work in the development of a board having a surfboard-like shape was begun by Bob Simmons, the man who created many innovations in the design of the surfboard as we know it today. He built a paipo board that had contoured rails, two fins, and was shaped of balsa." Newell then notes that the small board concept lay dormant for many years until the advent of foam/fiberglass construction. However, these boards were rather large and the excessive floation made paddling out difficult in large wave conditions. However, the boards were small enough to ride waves on beaches that did not allow surfboards.

  
  "There was a need for a very thin and very fast paipo board that could adapt to any wave of any shape in the country. A series of foam, hand shaped, high peformance paipo baords were introduced by the author early in 1966. Known as the Newport Paipo, they has a flat bottom which ended in a a realse area at the tail. They were designed to produce as little turbulence in the water as possible. The rails were hand shaped and turned down sharoply towards the rear. The idea worked out quite well becasue with two fins, aka Bob Simmons, the Newport Paipo rode higher in the wave and never spun out on hollow tubes." Newell goes on to note that he experimented with different bottom countours (e.g., "V," concave, convex, slot) before settling on a concave bottom, naming this design the Newport Paipo Concave Vector.
  
  Newell takes some credit for the popularity of kneeboarding with Rick Newcomb riding his paipo design at The Wedge, and hence the evolution of the "Knee Machine." Then the bluring between paipo riding (prone) and kneeboarding -- the paipo board basically meaning "short board" regardless of whether ridden prone or on the knees, or even stand-up style. Newell goes on to write, "The paipo offers the surfer tremendous speed and involvement with the wave, whether ridden prone or as a knee machine." Jack Hokanson famous quote: "Belly boards will soon outnumber surfboards."
  ¹Editor's Note: ca1950.

• Newell, Skip. (1970, March/April). Paipo Part II: Greenough-Man in Motion. Surfing Action, 3(2), 62-63. Second in a 3-part series focused on the paipo board. The author notes Greenough's influence on riding waves, from mat surfing to erectile boarding riding, in particular kneeboards. There is no mention of Greenough riding a paipo (notwithstanding riding a "soft" paipo, aka a surf mat). Newells states, "What Greenough gave us is more than a new concept, it is a new impetus to develop the paipo board or knee machine to further degrees of refinement for more and more people." Click here for a PDF version [450KB].

• Newell, Skip. (1970, May/June). Paipo Part III: Wave Test. Surfing Action, 3(3), 66-68. Third in a 3-part series focused on the paipo board. "To bring this rapidly growing segment of surfing into clearer focus, SURFING Magazine conducted the most comprehensive research and testing program ever attempted. Performance, design, and specification tests were made both in and out of the water on the contemporary boards available on the market today. The results and evaluations are now available for publication." Click here for a PDF version of the entire article (2.5MB) or the Table of Boards (250KB). Medium-resolution image files: page 1, page 2, page 3.
  
  
  

• Pennings, John. (1965, May). New South Coast Discovery: Wilinga Reef. Surfing World, 6(2), pp. 13-16. Photos: John Pennings.

• Bellybogger [Advertisement]. (1978, August). Surfing World, 27(5). Issue 167, inside back cover. Thanks to Jeff Bickerstaff for a copy. [Note: Date is approximate.] Also see the Dick Ash interview.

• Doherty, Sean. (2012, February). Board Design. Outside the square: Look mum, they fibreglassed a boogieboard! Surfing World, 322, p. 101.

A short story about professional surfers who foot ride very short boards (bodyboard type boards with fins) or very thin boards (alaia). The article describes the board dimensions stating, "The tape says 4'6" by somewhere around 23"' wide. The outline is something between a boogieboard and a Mini Simmons with maybe a just hint of paipo thrown into the mix." Continuing, Dave concurs, noting. "It looks like an oId paipo and similar to the single fin Ted Spencer was riding at Angourie in Morning of the Earth." Dave apparently likes this board for riding small point break waves, "The points at one, two foot have always been a challenge to find the right craft.. Yoo need something to paddle you if the current's strong, but somethtng that's small enough to fit in the pocket."

• Unknown. (1993, Summer). Tales of a Town and Country: Walter Hoffman's Scrapbook, The Early Years: 1948-1954. The Surfer’s Journal, 2(2), 83.. This article contains one noteworthy photograph and another photo which is curious. The first photograph is noteworthy since there are not many photographs of paipo boards from this period in time and the board appears to be a reasonably modern looking shape for 1950 era. It's unclear what the other board is in the other photo.
  

  Above partial caption: The guy that controlled the area where hundreds of balsa life rafts were stored on the base at Pearl Harbor ended up being our friend's, the Patterson brothers, father , so he'd let us drive in there and we'd slice up the balsa rafts and glue the pieces into blanks. Question: Is that a balsa life raft in the above photo or something else? Caption (left): "Our living quarters, Summer 1950--a $25 a month basement and backyard garden area where we kept our boards." Against the garden wall is a variety of surfing equipment of the period ranging from the balsa/redwood planks on the left (note the  ittle plywood palpo with fin leaning against the tree), Malibu chips In the middle, ("They were just beginning to arrive in the islands In the hands of guys like Zahn, Quigg, Kivlin and Rochlen who would bring them over and sell them when they left.") to the kook box at right.

• Elwell, John. (1994). The Enigma of Simmons. The Surfer’s Journal, 3(1). See the article on the Hydrodynamica website.
  

• Unknown. (1995, Fall). Indiana Seymour in the Temple of Oceanian. The Surfer’s Journal, 4(3), 3. In "Collector's Corner." [PDF (240KB), JPG (400KB) ] [Note: the PDF is text-searchable, the JPG is cleaner to read.]

• Gault-Williams, Malcolm. (1997, Winter). Surf Drunk: Wally Froiseth. The Surfer’s Journal, 6(4), 105. [PDF, 170KB]. Picture of Wally Froiseth riding a paipo board vertically at Makaha - no other references to paipos in the article.

• Pezman, Steve. (2009, August-September). Hobie's Story - Chapters from His Early Years. The Surfer’s Journal, 18(4), 49, 54-55. [PDF, 320KB & 570KB]. Bellyboarding as a youth, swim fins and using a belly board mold in early poly foam experiments.
  
• On p. 49, Hobie Alter mentions his early days surfing as a kid at Laguna Beach: "When you think about how we get into stuff, well, there's a lot of luck involved. In my case, I picked good parents. If there was ever a spot where you wanted to be: I had Brooks Street right here and Oak Street there, and Thalia down at the other side of us. I mean, that's it! That's surfing in Laguna. Dead center. Best bodysurfing of anywhere around there. That's what we did. A group of us kids grew up bodysurfing and skimboarding and bellyboarding." Hobie also mentions using swim fins: "We had Owen Churchill swim fins, but you couldn't get rubber during the war so they were made of black synthetic rubber that wore holes in our feet. We'd wrap cloth around them, tape, everything. There were even some wood ones on the market then, but they didn't look like they worked very well."
  
• On pp. 54-55, he mentions a bellyboard mold that was used in his early experimentation with polyurethane foam: "You can't believe what a shock it was after Styrofoam didn't work. That was the first I had seen of urethane foam. After that I had a belly board mold that I tried to foam up. I went up to Reichhold and did it right in their lab."
  

• Pu'u, David. (2000, Summer). Mothball Fleet: A Moment with David Swanson, Paipo Boarder, in “Undercurrents.” The Surfer’s Journal, 9(3), 122-123. [PDF, 1.6MB].
  

• Growney, Jim. (2008, Summer). More Paipo Magic at Waikiki, in “Surf Story: The Longest Ride.”  The Surfer’s Journal, 17(4), 125. [PDF, 75KB].
  

• Kenvin, Richard. (2010, Fall). Square One: Serious fun with Lindsay Lord and the Yard Possums. The Surfer’s Journal, 19(5). Introduction on Lindsay Lord by John Elwell. See the article on the Hydrodynamica website.

• Steele, Jon. (2009, Winter). Cowboy From Hell: Hoo-dang! The Surfer’s Journal, 18(6), 79.
  

  Note the picture of the Texas paipo-boarder from the article on Texas surfing. "Out of the woodwork: When hurricane swells are forecast a menagerie of archetypes emerges from Lone Star country to slide a few. Homemade craft appear like this finned paipo--In quick peaks a challenging ride." Read the full article here: http://www.surfersjournal.com/node/828

• Pendarvis, Cher. (2010, Winter). Uncle Val. Paipo in practice. The living link to surfing's high-performance roots. The Surfer’s Journal, 19(6), 38-47.  Article summary: All around waterman, Valentine Ching, Jr., has spent a lifetime surfing the waters of Oahu and is known as the pioneer of shortboard surfing on his paipo. He and his father began designing and riding paipo boards when he was only 7 years old, riding both kipapa (prone) and ku (standing) style. "Uncle Val" is busy passing the torch on to his children and their generation by encouraging and teaching Hawaiian culture, farming, arts fishing practices, and, of course, paipo shaping and riding. [Rod's Note: More to follow.]
  

• Kenvin, Richard. (2011, Feb-Mar). Child of the Cataclysm. The Surfer’s Journal, 20(1), 20-23. Article summary: He made skateboard history, but Tony Alva’s always been a surfer at heart. In this piece we decode myth and the man down in dusty, old Baja Mexico. Paipo punch line in the article appears on p. 20, "Bertleman was, after all, raised on a paipo." This comment was made in reference to how the surf/skate style traces its worldwide roots to the Hawaiian paipo board and the ancient alaia which are the elder siblings of the Simmons planing hull and Lis's fish.

• Pendarvis, Cher. (2011, Feb-Mar). Home Grown: Steve Lis and His Fish. The Surfer’s Journal, 20(1), 108-119. Article summary: It was only one of the most influential developments in surfboard design, no big deal. From his quiet perch above Sunset Cliffs, emerged Steve Lis and this unabridged Fish story. Paipo bottom turn storyline: Steve Lis started out bodysurfing at age 10, but wanted to rider steeper, faster waves. He started building and riding small marine plywood paipos, adding skegs near the tail, and then starting experimenting with foils, concave and rocker. [Rod's Note: More to follow.]
  

• Unknown. (2010, October). Quivers: Malloys' Gear for Killing Fish, slaying waves, and Much More. TransWorld Surf, 12(9), 72. 

  The adjacent panorama image shows the paipo board on the right. Odd fact in the article: the paipo is not listed even though the handboard and fins are itemized. Side note: Danny Hess, in San Francisco, makes bellyboards and bodysurfing devices. The plywood paipo was built by Dan Malloy after watching the surf video, Modern Collective. [PDF (740KB), JPG (500KB) ] Original photograph by Brian Bielmann.

• Masters, Brad. (2012, June). South Pacific: Find Your Own Way. TransWorld Surf, 14(5), 1-2, 94-99. 

  	This might represent the first time in a decade or more that a surfing magazine cover shot featured a paipo surfer (other than in a bodyboarding magazine). Alas, it appears to make for a nice novelty photograph as not much text follows in the magazine article about traveling to a remote South Pacific destination. (Although I am a bit confused because the article cites Indonesia as the destination and Indo appears to be in the Indian Ocean, not the South Pacific.) The adjacent panorama image shows a super stoked native kid riding a plank. The caption states, "Sometimes pro surfers don’t score the trip’s best photo. Instead, a stoked young kid on a plank does—by exemplifying all of the reasons we started surfing in one single moment."  Original photographs and words by Brad Masters.
  	This photograph appears in the table of contents. This wider version of the cover photograph adds two dimensions not seen on the cover shot: (1) there is noticeable rocker on the paipo plank and (2) the kids in the background are also riding paipo planks. The caption accompanying this photo in the table of contents states, "Mikala Jones, Dede Suryana, and photographer Brad Masters cash in on a hunch and a gamble--and prove that magical, untouched places still exist."
  	This is an image appearing on the TransWorld Surf website. A higher resolution image of the board being held in the foreground may be seen by clicking on the figure to the left. This photograph opens the 6-page article on pp. 94-95.
  The online version includes the following dialog: "We caught up with Brad as he was dashing through the Perth airport en route to Bali, the place he calls home. TransWorld SURF: So Brad, how did this photo come about? Brad Masters: We’d been surfing all morning and we’re driving back along the coast to where we were going to camp when I saw a bunch of kids playing in the water on these little boards. The guys were surfed out so I just went out and joined them for some fun. It was just a little reef pass, and I stayed out there for about an hour and a half shooting photos of the kids. Stoked! That’s two covers for WA guys in the last two months! While we’re not going to disclose the exact location of the trip, it’s safe to say the boys scored somewhere in the South Pacific…"
  	Caption for the photo on p. 96: "How many times have these groms witnessed pumping surf without taking notice? Mikala Jones punts while the local kids play." My guess based on the history of surfing going back to ancient times is that the local kids noticed.
  	Caption for p. 98: "Dede Suryana was just as stoked to high-five the local kids as they were to see him. We couldn't help but wonder, were we the first to surf these waves?" My guess based on the history of surfing going back to ancient times is that the indigenous people had surfed these waves before the TW visitors' arrival... just not on thrusters!
  My overall observations: Were these planks and the pictorial spread a completely fabricated event? Did the kids have these boards lying around and ride them regularly? Unfortunately the trip story sheds little light other than observing the now old cliché, "Were we the first to surf these waves?"

• Unknown. (1953, August). Making Your Own Surf Board. Woodworker, LVII(717), 158-159, 145.
  Thanks to Henry Marfleet for this contribution.

  An article on making your own U.K.-style bellyboard, with and without nose rocker. Wood types are suggested along with board lengths and how to build rocker into a board. The boards also feature finger grips and and a strip of wood on the rear bottom of the board to prevent wear from scraping along the sand. From the article, "One of the pleasures of a holiday on the North Cornish coast is surf board riding. Although surf boards can be hired, readers who propose to spend a holiday in this part of Britain may like to make their own. The only part of a board that may involve some difficulty is the slight upward curl towards the front, though this curve is not absolutely necessary. To anyone familiar with woodworking, the formation of this curve should not prove an insurmountable obstacle. One real difficulty may well be the obtaining of suitable material of the right size, in which case it would be better to purchase a board rather than to use material, which would prove unsatisfactory." Click here to read a PDF version [500KB] of the article.

• Pedersen, M. J. (1966, April). Surfboard for Sand and Sea. Popular Mechanics, 125(4), 98-99.

  (Click on figure to see a larger view of the belly riders.)

  A combo sand, snow, or surf board. Excerpts from the article appear below: "It's just as easy to ride down the slope of a sand dune as it is to ride the crest of a wave with a new lightweight fiberglass "surfer." The multi-use surfer is really a thesis that was done by a UCLA student in his industrial design studies. The board is five feet, eight inches long and weighs between 12 and 13 pounds. Runners on the bottom make it usable on sand and snow while an aluminum skeg is attached to the bottom when the board is to be used in water." Many thanks to Poobah for identifying this article.

• McGetrick, Patricia. (1966, December 7). Be in it, girls! The Australian Women's Weekly, 34(28), 24.
  Retrieved December 1, 2010, from National Library of Australia website: http://nla.gov.au/nla.newspage4902618
  (or http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/4902618).

  An article on Candy Calhoun, an all-around accomplished wave rider, loved the paipo. Of special note is this excerpt from the article: Although Candy has won international acclaim as a surfboard rider, her greatest thrills in competition were when she twice took second place as the only female in U.S. body‐surfing contests. Despite these successes her first love is bellyboard riding. "With a bellyboard you are down in the water going with it," she said. "You can get right inside a hangover and feel like a fish. There is no trouble balancing and it is easier to catch a wave. "Older people find them easier to handle - I sold one of my boards to a man over 40 - and they are cheaper, about $50 compared with approximately $95 for a surfboard." Click here different file format versions of the article: PDF, image or a text [in PDF]. Note: The text version Includes an editor's reference note on the surfo-plane.

• Gilmore, Roland. (2010, October/November). Riding the Plank. Hana Hou: The Magazine of Hawaiian Airlines, 13(3), 25. Retrieved June 3, 2011, from http://www.hanahou.com/. 

  An article on author and paipo rider, John Clark, and his soon to be released book, Hawaiian Surfing Traditions from the Past. Click here for a PDF version [500KB] or text only version or the article.