Mentawai Bodyboarding – What waves to expect?

We are regularly asked the question – what are the waves like in the Mentawai Islands? Rather than trying to describe them, we made this video of some of the sessions from our recent trip. We all agreed that it was the best surf that any of us had ever had in our lives. We […]

Mentawai Bodyboard Camp – 5 mind-blowing reasons to join us!

By Rob Barber  Our first Mentawai Bodyboard Camp was a huge success with all 10 guest (and two instructors!) agreeing that they they’d scored the best waves of their whole lives. I’m sure that you can see from the shots that the quality is second to none. Here are few interesting facts about the trip…  […]

Mentawai Bodyboarding – Why you have to do it

An interview with Welshman Lee MacGregor. He can’t get enough of bodyboarding in the Mentawai islands.  Name: Lee MacGregor Age: 35  Home Town: – Swansea  Business: MacGregor’s Garden Maintenance  You’ve done a lot of travelling, why do you keep going back to the Mentawai’s?  The consistency, you’re pretty much guaranteed to get waves even on […]

Bodyboarding Mentawai Islands

https://www.redbulletin.com/us/us/lifestyle/the-best-places-to-get-barreled-on-a-bodyboard Bodyboard-Holidays recently featured in Red Bulletin (Red Bull’s official magazine). Rob Barber explains how it came about “We’ve been working on the Mentawai Islands as a new destination for some time and after an epic trip there last October we had all the info that we needed to launch this as our newest destination”. […]

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