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.” 
Yup, wasn't that saying discovered by Joseph Banks on the HMS Endeavor where his ship stayed in Tahiti? 
i think so, WWII led to the invention of chemicals and materials that helped revolutionize the construction of surfboards.
Surfboard shaper
A surfboard shaper is someone who builds and designs surfboards by hand. Originally made from wood, most modern surfboards are made from pre-formed polyurethane blanks or styrofoam and then fine shaped by the shaper using an array of tools ranging from surforms, rasps, sanding machines and power planers. When the form is sculpted in the foam core, the shaper may complete the build by layering fiberglass sheets over the deck and bottom and laminating these with a thermosetting resin such as polyester.
History.
Most shapers
wave riding contests.
See also.
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