Best Inventions 2005: Sporting Life
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DENNIS GALANTE FOR TIME
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Get Down And Boogie
Inventor: Now, $217 at ebodyboarding.com
Availability: Now, $249
To Learn More: moreybodyboards.com
Morey's Taloa III boosts bodyboarding's cool quotient by letting you hit the gnarliest waves with cutting-edge technology: a stiff, lightweight polypropylene core and graphite rod for strength, and mesh reinforcement for optimal flexibility (too much
and you lose projection; too little and the board snaps back in heavy surf). Designed with intermediate and advanced bodyboarders in mind, the Taloa sports a retro shape that's appropriate no matter how you ride — prone, drop-knee or stand-up like the pros.
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