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when it started
“The act of riding waves with a wooden board originated in Western Polynesia over three thousand years ago.” Surfing is one of the very first sports created. Surfing became more popular in the late 1700s. It was thought that the first surfers where fishermen, and they used the boards as transportation to their boats and the shore. -
Discovering Hawiian islands
“Joseph Banks, a crew member on James Cook’s HMS Endeavor during its historic initial voyage in 1769 and his “discovery” of the Hawaiian Islands.” -
forbiding surfing
“When the missionaries from Scotland and Germany arrived in 1821, they forbade or discouraged many Polynesian traditions and cultural practices, including, on Hawaii, leisure sports such as surfing and holua sledding. -
surfing coming to California
“In July 1885, three teenage Hawaiian princes took a break from their boarding school, St. Mathew’s Hall in San Mateo, and came to cool off in Santa Cruz, California.” -
almost extinct
“By 1890, surfing in Hawaii was almost extinct, with the art of wave riding being practiced in only a few places. Without the dedication of a few Hawaiian kings like David Kalakua, an advocate of all Hawaiian sports, surfing may not have survived to see the 20th century. -
Huntington Beach
“In 1907 George Freeth was brought to California from Hawaii, to demonstrate surfboard riding as a publicity stunt to promote the opening of the Los Angeles-Redondo-Huntington railroad owned by Henry Huntington, who gave his name to Huntington Beach.” -
Australia
“Surfing was brought to Australia in 1915 by Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku.” -
legends
“...in Hawai'i in the summer of 1917, Duke rode a now legendary wave at Kalehuawehe, which was now called Outside Castles.” -
becoming worldwide
“...it was only in the 1960s when it truly became worldwide and the release of the film Gidget boosted the sport's popularity immensely, moving surfing from an underground culture into a national fad and packing many surf breaks with sudden and previously unheard of crowds.” -
surfing continues
Quéré, David, and Armand Ajdari. "Liquid drops: Surfing the hot spot." Nature materials 5.6 (2006): 429-430. surfing is a worldwide popular sport and hobbie that people love to do and the hawiian tradtions ae still happening today.
