If you type "kneeboards" on a search engine you get diverted to avionic clipboards and wake riding boards....I thought I'd ease the pain a little. Note, this is from a very Australian perspective.

Before Morey's invention, there always seemed to be at least a few kneeboarders at each beach. For me, growing up on Sydney's northern beaches many years ago, those guys were Barry Stark and Ricky Wright from Collaroy, and Tom Gubler with his Swiss flag pigment jobs at Mona Vale. Unique intelligent people. Great surfers. Individuals.

Then some time later, along came Californian George Greeenough with his flexing spoon and mind blowing Crystal Voyager visions, and Peter Crawford with his Crozier slabs, Nikonos camera and DY Point mastery.... and the kneeboard art instantly had widespread respect!

So many others made a mark along the way, excuse me if I miss someone notable out, but as well as the obvious two legends above, these were just some of the standouts (for all sorts of reasons sometimes for other than who was the best kneelo) to me:
Victoria's Neil Luke, still making a few boards on Phillip Island, lead singer with the "Breakers", married with a few kids and drinking light beer;
Manly's Flip Wilson, grabbing sly waves in warmer Qld waters;
Kevin Barr, made the move long ago from Canberra surfshop to Barz Optics on the Coast;
possibly the most stylish kneeboarder I ever saw, Ken Horton, back in Sydney after moves to Forster and the Gold Coast via such surf co's as O&E, Hot Tuna, Oakley, Quik, now with Spy sunnies, and settled in with family on the Upper North Shore;
Albert Whiteman, tragically gone, a classic one-off guy who made Knormal boards, out of Maroubra via HB, then Ulladulla;
the NN crew, Steve Artis, Simon Farrer and Michael Novakov most prominent. With how many world titles between the latter two? Steve's now on the Central Coast, but I saw he did well in the Worlds; Simon, (who features in our photo above) is trying to be an ambo and putting out kneeboard videos while still surfing insanely; Nova, also still powering; last I heard, he had a cushy job maintaining ninemsn's surf cams but they pulled them a while back, so?;
then there's the rest of the DY crew, the Cronulla Point/Shark Island get-barrelled-off-their-face guys.... For the Ladies, there's South Africa's Trudi Sanders, three times and current World Professional Womens Kneeboard Champion...
And through so many years, David Parkes is still ripping, just pipped for the 1999 World Title, an amazing few decades of staying at the top, still locked into making boards at the Bay;

But I shouldn't dally too long on my small field of experience, follow the links below to find out about the guys who are tearing it up now, kneelos like Baden Smith (Current World and Australian Surfmasters Champion), Matt Gallagher, Kyle Bryant, Rowdy Simpson.......

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P.O Box 1503
Mooloolaba Queensland 4557

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