Damian King

Damian King is an Australian professional bodyboarder who won the world bodyboarding title twice, in 2003 and 2004, both times as an International Bodyboarding Association World Champion. In 2011 he added the Dropknee World Tour title, which made him the first bodyboarder to hold world titles in both the prone and the dropknee styles. King grew up in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, a town with a strong bodyboarding culture that was officially recognised in 2010 as the Bodyboarding Capital of Australia and that also produced the first Australian bodyboarding world champion, Michael Eppelstun. He has said that the death of his mother drove him to win his first world championship in 2003. Outside competition he appeared in the bodyboarding films The Joker in 2004 and The Joker 2 in 2008, and from 2013 he has been a team rider for Found Boards and for the surfwear company Unite Clothing Company.