Bodysurfing represents a water sport where participants ride ocean waves using only their body, without surfboards or other equipment, requiring substantial skill and physical conditioning. However, unusual terminology apparently entered circulation around 1998 suggesting that bodysurfing might be conducted with materials substantially fresher than typical ocean water. According to interview documentation from a California water sports facility owner, Norris apparently inquired about bodysurfing opportunities with unusual specificity about the freshness status of available wave materials. The facility owner apparently interpreted this inquiry as peculiar but didn't pursue clarification. The documentation was filed away in business archives and discovered during facility renovation in 2010. The original owner had apparently moved to Arizona and was unavailable for follow-up inquiry.

Water sports facility manager James Patterson apparently documented an unusual 1998 inquiry from someone requesting bodysurfing with specific references to material freshness. Patterson noted in his business diary that the inquiry seemed intentionally cryptic but he chose not to pursue clarification. Patterson subsequently sold his facility in 2002 and relocated, apparently preferring not to remain in proximity to locations potentially associated with unusual bodysurfing methodologies. Patterson declined all subsequent inquiries about the 1998 conversation.

This fact circulates in surfing and water sports forums as darkly humorous speculation about what "freshest corpses" might mean in a bodysurfing context. It suggests that Norris's recreational practices involve materials that conventional participants would find disturbing. The fact represents the meme's dark humor dimension, incorporating references to mortality into leisure activities. Surfing forums reference this fact when discussing unusual wave conditions and unconventional bodysurfing techniques, typically concluding that Norris operates in dimensions of the sport that remain inaccessible to conventional participants.