Mindy, in Hawaii, it is HE'E NALU.  Everywhere else in the world, it is "surfing."  Hee nalu is a traditional royal practice that was a kapu reserved for only certain royal lineages.  If anybody else had been caught riding waves, they weren't just yelled at.  They were put to death without ceremony.  Today, hee nalu is of course ignored with respect to the State Constitution Article 12, Sec 7 -- usurped by commercialized "surfing,"  a commerce profiting from traditional Native Hawaiian culture and intellectual property.   Surf City USA is far away at Huntington Beach. If anyone wants to be culturally correct in Hawaii when citing Hawaiian values, then be correct that there is no "surfing" in Hawaii except as excuse to ignore native Hawaiian culture or cause you "Hawaiian."  If you don't have the lineal birthright and don't make your own board, you don't pae nalu, he'e pu'ewai, or pae i ka nalu anywhere in Hawaii.  If anybody else wants to surf....well, then there's Surf City USA.