Abstract: A chest and rib protection padded shirt, configured to lift a human user's head from a surfboard while providing protection to a human user's chest and ribs. The chest and rib protection padded shirt includes a shirt attached to padding. The padding further includes a plurality of primary pads, secondary pads, tertiary pads, quaternary pads, and quinary pads having a quinary plurality of pads thickness. The primary plurality of pads thickness is greater than the secondary plurality of pads thickness. The secondary plurality of pads thickness is greater than the tertiary plurality of pads thickness. The tertiary plurality of pads thickness is greater than the quaternary plurality of pads thickness. The quaternary plurality of pads thickness is greater than the quinary plurality of pads thickness. The padding is adequate to prevent rib injuries while configured to lift the human user's head from the surfboard without the neck strain.