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In Petersen's Surfing magazine Volume 1 #8 (November 1964) there is a short article about a bellyboard contest at Salt Creek.

Page 4 of this magazine has an ad for Val Surf's new bellyboard. Further research is needed to determine if this is the first appearance of the Val Surf foam bellyboard. Note: the Dextra ad on page 6 makes no mention of bellyboards.

On page 52 of this magazine in "What's New," the editors mention another new foam and glass bellyboard called the Belly Buster.

Poobah · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 10:36 pm Post subject:

Inside the back cover of this magazine we find a full page ad for the Belly Buster and the skateboards made by Cooley Associates Inc.

If you want to fetch your own copy of this magazine, then the cover looks like this....

HIpaipo · Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: Location: Oahu,Ewa Beach

Thanks for posting more articles, keep up the good work! I noticed that the boards in the contest pics were thin(possibly wood?), Hawaiian style paipos, as opposed to the thicker foam/fiberglass boards that are more commonly seen or made in California. Maybe home made, or copied Hawaiian paipos?
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Poobah · Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:57 pm Post subject:

In some photos it's hard to tell whether it's foam or wood. I'm guessing wood in many of them, but some could be foam and glass with most of the board thickness near the tail...in the wave where we can't see it. Here's an interesting website with Noll bellyboards and paipos. As I recall...and I can't remember whether I read or heard it...the wooden paipos were made by Val Valentine for the Greg Noll shop in Hawaii.

http://www.vintagegregnollsurf.com/bellyboards.html

Soulglider · Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts:

i have an El Paipo 54 thats only about an 1" thick from nose to tail and is made outa foam and fiberglass.
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Poobah · Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:20 pm Post subject:

Tracking the evolution of the El Paipo by their ads is on my "to do" list. I always thought of them as late sixties. Of course people could be riding thin foam prototypes at Salt Creek in 1964...or even thin balsa, like from an old surfboard. It's unfortunate that we don't get a beach shot of the contestants with their boards. Also unfortunate that we don't even get the photographers name. We do at least have the names of some of the riders, and that could lead to finding their personal bellyboards.