History of Surfing

Surfing is a sport in which people use a board made from polyurethane foam, wrapped in fiberglass, and sealed with resin, in order to ride waves in a standing up position. It hasn’t always been a fiberglass board that surfers have used however. They use to use a very heavy wooden board that ranged somewhere around 18 feet long. Now days, they use a board anywhere from five feet to 20 feet long, and they are …showed first 75 words of 796 total…

…showed last 75 words of 796 total…Duke Kahanamoku, surfing might not ever be around today. He wasn’t the actual inventor, but he was the man that introduced it to almost every country in the world and made it so popular: as well as master the sport in his day and age. Now surfing has become way more popular in the world to a point where it is now actually recognized as a sport, and not just an event or hobby.