About this product
A bodyboard is the fastest way to get a first-timer riding waves, and the Ripple is the size most people should start on: 39 inches suits a teenager or a lighter adult, which is the bracket where cheap boards usually let you down. The difference here is in the layers.
The core is EPS – expanded polystyrene – which is light and floats high, so the board planes early and you catch waves that a denser core would miss. Running through it is an FRP stringer, a fibre-reinforced rod that stops the board bending permanently under load. That is the part that separates a board you still own next season from one that arrives home from the beach with a crease across the middle.
The deck is IXPE foam, heat-laminated rather than glued, giving a surface that is soft against your chest and ribs on a hard landing but does not soak up water or delaminate. Underneath, the slick bottom is HDPE reinforced with a plastic mesh, with two channels moulded into it. Those channels are what let the board hold a line across the wave face instead of sliding straight down it. The crescent tail and 60/40 rails round out a shape aimed at beginner and intermediate riders rather than at experts.
The coiled wrist leash supplied with it uses a double stainless-steel swivel, which matters more in salt water than it sounds – a single swivel winds up tight after a dozen waves and starts tugging your arm.




























Contour Surf Ripple EPS 39 in Bodyboard with Coiled Wrist Leash