Surfing: Rules, Events, and Champions in the World of Waves
Surfing: Introduction and Cultural Significance – Surfing is a sport with ancient Polynesian roots. Captain James Cook in 1788 observed Tahitians and Hawaiians riding long wooden boards on waves, and American author Mark Twain wrote about Hawaiian surfing in 1871. By the 1920s–30s, California had become a hotbed of the sport, and surfing exploded into […]