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Surfing is one of the oldest practiced sports on the planet. The art of wave riding, is a blend of total athleticism and the comprehension of the beauty andpower of nature. Surfing is also one of the few sports that creates its own culture and lifestyle.
The act of riding waves with a wooden board originated inWestern Polynesia over three thousand years ago. The first surfers were fishermen who discovered riding waves as an efficient method of getting to shore withtheir catch . Eventually catching waves developed from being part of everyday work to being a pastime. This change revolutionized surfing.
There is no exactrecord of when stand-up surfing became a sport. It is known that during the 15th century, kings, queens and people of the Sandwich Isles were big into the sport of"he'enalu" or wave-sliding, in old Hawaiian. Navigator Captain James Cook described how a Tahitian caught waves with his outrigger canoe just for the fun ofit: "On walking one day about Matavai Point, where our tents were erected, I saw a man paddling in a small canoe so quickly and looking about him with sucheagerness of each side. He then sat motionless and was carried along at the same swift rate as the wave, till it landed him upon the beach. Then he started out,emptied his canoe, and went in search of another swell. I could not help concluding that this man felt the most supreme pleasure while he was driven on so fastand so smoothly by the sea."
Early historical records of surfing appear in the late 1700s, when Europeans and Polynesians made first contact in Tahiti.