The competition will run during the best three days of the holding period, which started Feb. 20, and goes until March 5.

Some might think bodyboarders have it easy, compared to surfers. For one, they don’t have to stand up. But surfers’ prone-riding brethren charge. They ride waves that surfers can’t. Big, scary, mutant ...

I grew up in Strandhill in Co Sligo, an amazing little village. My childminder’s house was on the seafront, and I started looking at all the bodyboarding and surfing films that her sons had. They were ...