Australian bodyboarder Chase O’Leary caught deep in a pit at The Shark Island Challenge which went down last month. Not bad exposure, the oke has got over 100 000 Likes on Facebook alone from this cranker… Even though he got hammered a few split seconds after this :p Well worth it mate, keep charging!
Shark Island Challenge at Shark Island, near Cronulla on June 17, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
“I just wanted to get a bomb and was really enjoying the ride,” says bodyboarder Chase O’Leary of catching this six-foot wave during the Shark Island Challenge, in June 2011, near Sydney, Australia. “But I didn’t read the wave properly, hence why I got smashed into the reef.” Surfing’s little brother, bodyboarding is a sport that’s growing up. “There’s been a real boom in the younger generation—not just in Australia but around the world,” says O’Leary, 19, who has been bodyboarding for nine years. “People see it as a more functional way of riding a wave than surfing. Once you start to get the hang of it, it becomes addictive.”
Shark Island Challenge 2011 Highlights
