The United States SURFBOARDING
Championships will be in Hawaii July 31st,
but I'm standing here this morning
in Oceanside, where 5 Southern
Californians who will be competing
next month workout each day. This
is 21 year old Johnny Boydton of Oceanside,
one of five Southern Californians
who will compete in the US
Surfboard championships in Hawaii.
The meat will run for 10 days with
about 200 surfers participating.
Approximately 50 of those
will be from California.
Johnny did his thing for us this morning
on the big waves and then we talked
about the upcoming championships.
The surf in Hawaii is the best surf
in the world and the competitors
are the top competitors in
the world and this is going
to be a great contest Johnny,
which is more important,
the surfer or the board? The
surfer is really important in
the fact that he has to keep in
condition and really keep in shape,
because especially in Hawaii you've
got long paddle outs and in these
heats are going to have big waves.
Long rides are going to really have
to be paddling and everyone's going
to be going full blast so you have to
be really moving good and be in good
shape in order to compete and do good.
So of course the board is all important
and I understand you build your own
and the one you've been surfing.
And here this morning is an example.
Can you tell us a little bit about it?
Is it different from most other surfboards
that people use here in California?
I've developed a new kind of surfboard
and I call it an air lubricated
surfboard and it's for high speed
maneuvering and and for really top notch
surfing and I've tried to develop it.
I've developed it and I've tried to.
You know, keep refining it so that
it gets better and better and better.
And now that I'm going to
the US Championships,
I really want to test it out in
the Hawaiian waves to see if my
board is as good as the others,
or if it's better.
Buddy
water on period off here
causing back in the air.
Riding on a Commission of
error instead of water dragon.
Go ahead.
With that
that is, that's fun. Called patient.