Ben Severson

Ben Severson
Born (1964-08-29) August 29, 1964
NationalityAmerican
OccupationBodyboarder
Known for1986 World Champion
Home townSandy Beach, Hawaii
Spouse(s)Chris Ann Kim (1997 - present)
Websitebenseverson.com

Biography

Ben Severson is a pioneer and true legend in the sport of bodyboarding and Sandy Beach local.[1] Severson was the 1986 world bodyboarding champion.[2]

Bodyboard Development

In the early 1980s, Severson had been riding the Morey Boogie Mach 7-7, the first slick-bottomed board designed by Tom Morey. In 1984 Severson began experimenting with transitional rails and changing the size of his boards as well. Morey Boogie sent him blanks that he began to customize, in particular to aid surfing in large surf at Pipeline.[3]

By 1986 Severson was becoming recognized as a developer of innovative board designs by the industry and that year was his most successful competitively as he won both the 1986 Morey World Championship and the National Pro/Am. In 1987 Severson signed with bodyboard manufacturer BZ and he soon released his first mass-produced custom board named the BEN T-10. Despite costing USD$305 it became one of the best-selling boards on the market.[4]

In the 1990s he established Ben Severson Designs (BSD) and continues to produce custom boards.[5]

Teahupo'o

Along with fellow bodyboarder Mike Stewart, Severson pioneered surfing Teahupo'o in the late 1980s.[6][7] This location has since gone on to become a premier global big-wave surfing destination on the WSL circuit.

gollark: Where else would they go?
gollark: What? Of course they are in our universe.
gollark: Those aren't heaven and hell, silly.
gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972
gollark: This is because it canonically receives 50 times the light Earth does.

References
  1. Severson, Ben with Jake Grubb (1986). Bodyboard Handbook. Newport Beach, California: Grubb Stake Media Ltd. ASIN: B000GKJSQ6
  2. "World Championship Titles". Bodyboard Museum. 2012-04-11. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  3. Pye, Owen (2013). Born to Boogie - Legends of Bodyboarding. Page 22. Newquay, UK: Orca Publications. ISBN 978-0-9567893-2-7
  4. Pye, Owen (2013). Born to Boogie - Legends of Bodyboarding. Page 31. Newquay, UK: Orca Publications. ISBN 978-0-9567893-2-7
  5. "Bodyboard Museum - Ben Severson". bodyboardmuseum.com.au. 2011-05-05. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
  6. "The history of the Teahupoo waves and surf break". Surfertoday.com. 2012-08-19. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  7. "TEAHUPOO, BEFORE IT WAS EVEN TEAHUPOO – Encyclopedia Of Surfing". Encyclopediaofsurfing.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-14. Retrieved 2016-04-18.


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