Thursday, March 6, 2008

the history of surfing



Thus Lieutenant James King commander of the Discoveryof surfing in 1779, recorded in the ship's log the first written description of Hawaiian surfing by a European. in 1779 waves lying down or standing on long pices of wood called long boards which were hardwood surfboards was an integral part of Hawaiian culture. It was like a hawaiians that were in an island and thought there where like legends and is areligion in hawaii. the first Polynesians arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in the fourth century A.D. The Polynesians who made a journey from Tahiti and the to hawaii they found surfing there The Polynesians who made it to Hawai'i also brought their customs with them, including playing in the surf on paipo belly board. and now there is surfing tournaments with awsome boards.

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