Surfing As A Sport Of Kings

Surfboards and surfing have come a lengthy way since they first gained popularity in the mid 1800’s.Initially the sport of royals, surfing has actually been with US since the 6th Century but in its modern day sort it achieved standing as a lifestyle symbol around the 1860’s. It is believed to have initially made its way to Hawaii from the Polynesian Isles around the center of the 18th Century.Two Hawaiian princes studying in the US shown their surfing skills to the locals in North America and the sport took off from there. Their surf boards would have already been primitively moulded from solid wood, sanded with granulated coral and stained with bark or charcoal before being finished with polished nut oil. Problems with first surf boards like this were that they weighed close to 150 lbs and behaved like sponges once in the water.Duke Kahanamoku, an Olympic swimmer from Hawaii, demonstrated his abilities on a surfboard while on a visit to Australia in 1865. This went down a
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