i want to surf but i cant swim
Well you can learn! Surfing can done with or without a board and it takes practice! Native people in the Pacific do it all the time.
i love how The Hawaiians referred to surfing as he’enalu, which means “wave sliding.”
is the nominilizing particle) in the Hawaiian language, was recorded by Joseph Banks aboard HMS Endeavour during the first voyage of James Cook, during the ship's stay in Tahiti. Surfing was a central part of ancient Polynesian culture and predates European contact. The chief (Ali'i) was traditionally the most skilled wave rider in the community with the best board made from the best wood. The ruling class had the best beaches and the best boards, and the commoners were not allowed on the same beaches, but they could gain
wave riding contests.
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The author of this article about skimboarding is ignorant. Anyone who does not credit the Hawaiians with creating skimboarding is just plain uninformed. It has been documented countless times that they invented surfing and skimboarding was right there with it, done on something called a paipo. It is a very short wood board, usually used for bodysurfing was and sliding along the shore. I have a picture of my mother, Marion Haines, doing this as a child in 1928 at Kailua Beach on