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Centuries ago, fisherman started out used wooden boards to catch fish easier. -
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In Hawaii, they called it wave sliding, which reflected on your emotions, hawaiians relied on priests of kahunas to pray for or bless the sea, for a good surfing day. -
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Settlers were inspired by captain cook’s adventures in Hawaii, it became a trend to move to hawaii, soon hawaiian culture would be decreasing and surfing would be lost and not a current trend. ( 19th century) -
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Beach boys of hawaii brought back the trend of surfing in 1900’s -
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Irish- Hawaiian descent and native moved to california was california’s “ first lifeguard”, who started the trend of surfing in CA. -
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1915 australia was introduced to surfing because of one of the legendary surfers, Duke Kahanamoku -
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Surfboard technology/ design took off in the 1920s -
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the first ever surf competition was in 1928 , mostly hitting california, because of the nice, perfect, coastal waves. -
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1950s jack O'neill created the wet suit for surfers to wear year round. -
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1960s they reduced the surfboard from 10ft to 6ft, which as time progressed, it was more popular to have smaller surfboards, but both are still used today.
