Our Founders
Association for the Progression of Bodyboarding
Our Founders.
A founding group with decades of experience across the global bodyboarding community — in competition, in administration, and in the sport’s culture. Their involvement is in service of the sport.
Mike Stewart
Co-Founder · President
Mike Stewart is widely recognized as one of bodyboarding’s defining competitors and ambassadors. He brings an athlete’s understanding of what the sport requires at its highest level.
Terry “Teza” McKenna
Co-Founder · Treasurer
Terry “Teza” McKenna is widely regarded as a pivotal administrative and visionary force in professional bodyboarding, famously helping to transition the sport into what he termed a “sleeping giant of action sports.” His overarching contribution was treating bodyboarding not as a lesser sub-discipline of surfing, but as a distinct, elite, and hyper-athletic sport that deserved a premium global platform. He re-engineered the competitive heat formats, creating highly spectator-friendly and progressive rule sets designed to rival traditional extreme sports.
Ricardo Estupién
Co-Founder
Ricardo Estupién brings a European perspective and a long record of leadership within bodyboarding’s organizational structures on that continent; a voice and a constituency that has too often been underrepresented in global discussions about the sport’s direction.
Art Fisher
Founding Board Member · Secretary & Legal Counsel
Art Fisher currently serves as legal counsel to APB. As a founding board member, he is deeply dedicated to the well-being and future of bodyboarding. He once entered a contest and progressed through to the second round before being eliminated and retiring from competition. His home-zones encompass the U.S. regions of NorCal and Oregon, with aspirations for global travel.
In service of the sport. Nothing else.