I really enjoy surfing down here in Florida!  Have you ever surfed?
I have tried surfing, both with a board and without a board. I'm on the mid-Atlantic, and our waves are not always great.
Yeah, I agree that the waves are not ideal.  How do you surf without a board?
It's called body surfing. It's just the act of catching a wave and riding it to shore. 
Interesting!  I have never tried that before!  When was surfing created?
Riding waves has probably existed for as long as humans have been swimming in the ocean! But surfboards are probably relatively new. 
Do you know any well known surfers?
Dewey Weber
David Earl Weber (born August 18, 1938, in Denver, Colorado; died January 6, 1993), known as Dewey Weber, was an American surfer, a popular surfing film subject, and a successful surfboard manufacturing businessman.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he distinguished himself with a surfing style unique at the outset of that era. Out of the water, he had already become a national yo-yo champion and a CIF champion in wrestling, then appeared in several feature films, and
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The quirky, textured writing extended to episode titles, which included such oddities as "How Much a Pound is Albatross?" and "Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?", the latter causing a sensation as a 'surfing story' where Buz oddly berates a surf bum for existing without purpose. Other episode titles were drawn from a wide range of literary sources, such as Shakespeare ("A Lance of Straw", "Hell is Empty, All the Devils are Here")