As you know, Bodyboarding in New Zealand has been in slumber for the past few years so a group of us decided to resurrect it to get our sport pumping again. Our main goal was to create and establish a structure for Bodyboarding in New Zealand that will support those who have been supporting the sport for so long and to promote the sport of Bodyboarding in New Zealand.
In order to ensure that the structure we set up would be supportive of our cause we needed to do the research in terms of what has been done, what worked, etc. The research also included investigating the international scene to see how or if NZers could compete in overseas competitions. After numerous meetings (starting in May 2004), hours of input of our own time, money (over $300) and resources, we’ve set up a structure and are now an incorporated society.
Logo Meanings
Black: Representative of New Zealand sports people and is the ‘unofficial’ National Colour.
Red: Red is representative of power. It’s a strong color that conjures up a range of conflicting emotions from love to violence. Studies show that red can have a physical effect, increasing the rate of respiration and raising blood pressure. Red is selected for this logo because of these factors and how they relate to bodyboarders in terms of the passion we have for this sport and the lengths we’ll go through to keep it alive.
The Wave: The wave has numerous symbolic meanings as it takes three distinct shapes.
The Fern is representative of New Zealand sports people.
The Kiwi represents our national bird and is an icon.
The Wave represents the ocean which is our play ground and it is shaped in a way that is suitable and ideal for bodyboarding.
The Koru is symbolic of Maori who are the indigenous people of this land.
The Bodyboarder: The back flip is one of the radical manoeuvres performed by bodyboarders and represents the radical ever-growing culture surrounding Bodyboarding.
Photos
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Thanks
The entire BBSNZ team would like to thank Paulus Herewini from Isolated New Zealand Bodyboarding for his help with the hosting of this website as well as those photographers who contributed photos, in particular Hayden Parsons and Chris Garden.