Mike Stewart

ABOUT MIKE STEWART

Body board surfer and entrepreneur. He has amassed over 140,000 followers on his Instagram account mikestewart, where he shares bodyboarding photos and boards he is currently developing. He is a nine-time World Champion bodyboarder, one of the early pioneers of the bodyboarding sport, and a pioneer of big-wave tow-in surfing. He has received the title Mister Pipeline for being the best wave rider of any kind: the only non-stand-up surfer to achieve this accolade.

He has ridden bodyboards since the creation of the sport.

He has been involved in the design and manufacture of bodyboards throughout his career, and has manufactured his own line of boards under the label Science Bodyboards since 1998.

He married his wife Lisa in 1996. He was raised in Honolulu, but moved to Oahu with his wife and two children.

He has had a close relationship since childhood with the inventor of the modern bodyboard, Tom Morey .