Ben Severson

Ben Severson is a bodyboarder from the Sandy Beach break who won the 1986 Morey World Championship and the National Pro/Am in the same year, and is counted as the 1986 world bodyboarding champion. In the early 1980s he rode the Morey Boogie Mach 7-7, the first slick-bottomed board designed by Tom Morey, and from 1984 he experimented with transitional rails and board sizes, working from blanks Morey Boogie sent him to suit big surf at Pipeline. In 1987 he signed with the manufacturer BZ and released his first mass-produced custom board, the Ben T-10, which sold well despite its price of 305 US dollars. In the 1990s he founded Ben Severson Designs, which still makes custom boards, and with Mike Stewart he pioneered surfing Teahupo'o in the late 1980s.