Talk:History of surfing

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[edit] Links for expansion

The following websites are worth a look:

• Surfing Museums
  • Huntington Beach, California
  • Santa Cruz
  • Marton, England
  • Torquay, Victoria
  • Oceanside, California
• Other resources
  • San Diego State University
  • Legendary Surfers
  • Surfing's Golden Years
  • Surf Research
  • Early Surf History
  • The History of Surfing From Captain Cook to the Present

Maradja 07:37, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] US-centric part

Regarding this sentence: "John Ledyard, an American serving under explorer Captain Cook, was the first American to witness surfing in Hawaii in the late 1700s." -- Why are we focusing on the American and the fact that he was American? Isn't the interesting bit that a Captain Cook expedition saw surfing on Hawaii in the 1700s?

[edit] History of surfing

Surfing began in Hawaii over 1600 years ago by obviously, Hawaiians. There were 2 types of people that surfed. The noblemen and the basic cilvilian. The noblemen had boards that ranged in lengths from 5-6 metres and the average person had a board that was about 3-4 metres. A man named George Freeth was an irish-Hawaiian that travelled to California to introduce surfing. At first people werent to sure about the sport but after awhile people decided to give it a go and thus surfing was introduced and spread like rabbits breeding. George then sat back and became a life guard and became California's hero when he saved seven Japanese fishermen in a storm with nothing more than a bathing suit and a surf board. Carrying them 2 then 2 then 3. George passed out returning to the shore but was welcomed by the locals.

Not a bad start, but there's some issues. How do you know surfing began in Hawaii? Have you looked into it? Try doing some research. Some information about George Freeth should be added to the article, but you need to do some more reading on the subject. The problem is that most sources credit Duke Kahanamoku as the father of modern surfing, so you have to reconcile the two stories and make it fit. Good luck. —Viriditas | Talk 14:10, 1 April 2008 (UTC)