"or feet (in rare instances). ""Alaia"" boards were generally made from the wood of ""Acacia koa"" and ranged in length and shape. They are distinct from the modern stand-up surfboards in that they had no ventral fins. Captain Cook recorded seeing Hawaiian villagers riding such boards when he came to Hawaii in 1778. The boards he witnessed were about and were ridden prone (on the belly) or on the knees. ""Alaia"" boards then evolved into the more modern """"paipo"""" (pronounced pipe-oh) board. ""Paipo"" boards were either made of wood or fiberglass. Fiberglass boards usually had fins on the bottom. Tom"
"Bellyboarding Bellyboarding is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a bodyboard on the crest, face, and curl of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore. Bellyboarding is the oldest form of surfing from ancient Hawaii & the Polynesian islands. The board design was based on the ancient Hawaiin Paipo boards (Paipo meaning short or small board). In Hawaii people learnt the art of riding prone on these short wooden boards before they attempted to stand up on the longer ""alaia"" boards. The boards were made of Gaboon wood or of Paulownia wood. It appeared"
"History of surfing The riding of waves has likely existed since humans began swimming in the ocean. In this sense, bodysurfing is the oldest type of wave-catching. Standing up on what is now called a surfboard is a relatively recent innovation developed by the Polynesians.The influences for modern surfing can be directly traced to the surfers of pre-contact Hawaii. The art of surfing, known as ""heʻe ʻana"" (""heʻe"" means ""to surf"", and ""ʻana"" 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"
"Bodyboarding Bodyboarding is a water sport in which the surfer rides a bodyboard on the crest, face, and curl of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore. Bodyboarding is also referred to as ""Boogieboarding"" due to the invention of the ""Boogie Board"" by Tom Morey. The average bodyboarding consists of a short, rectangular piece of hydrodynamic foam. Bodyboarders typically use swim fins for additional propulsion and control while riding a breaking wave. Bodyboarding originates from an ancient form of riding waves (surfing) on one's belly. Indigenous Polynesians rode """"alaia"""" (pronounced ah-lie-ah) boards either on their belly, knees,"
"was originally hosted by the Honolulu City Parks Department to promote water safety and wave consciousness, as a multi-division bodysurfing, handboard and skegless paipo board competition open to both men and women. Eventually, the event was adopted by the North Shore Bodysurfing Club in Haleiwa, Hawaii. Currently, the Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic, started in February 1971; and the Oceanside World Bodysurfing Championship, started in 1977, are the two biggest bodysurfing competitions in the world. The PBC is an event open to all bodysurfers. It is a judged competition specific to Bodysurfing and uses established judging standards. The Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic was"
"by researchers who have investigated its roots and provenance, and the reality is probably that she did not do so until shortly after, at Dee Why beach in Sydney, on February 6, 1915. Kahanamoku had been invited to Australia by the NSW Swimming Association. He hadn't brought a surfboard so he made one from sugar pine. At Freshwater Beach, Kahanamoku gave a 3-hour demonstration of ""Hawaiian-style surf shooting"" to a crowd of several hundred people on 10 January 1915. Australians had been bodyboarding on wooden boards, and bodysurfing. Again probably apocryphally, the idea has been repeated for years that at"
"be difficult to imagine just how far surfboard technology has come since the first recorded surfboards seen in Hawaii. In 1778, Captain James Cook of the HMS Discovery had just begun his third discovery voyage and came across the Sandwich Islands, now known as the Hawaiian Islands. It was there he saw the natives riding large pieces of wood on the faces of waves. In the early days of Hawaiian surfing, surfing was a highly religious and spiritual affair for the natives. The art of surfing itself, praying for good surf, and the process of making a surfboard were all"
"Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic The Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic (PBC) is a bodysurfing competition held annually during the winter season at the Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The goals (and historical precedent) for the Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic are based on the original concept of the North Shore Expressive / Paipo bodysurfing event. The Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic first ran in February 1971 (which preceded the Pipe Masters, which ran in December 1971). Therefore, the Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic was the first surfing event at Pipeline (Ehukai Beach Park) on the North Shore of Oahu. The event"
"encountered across the islands. Surfing was a part of Māori culture before the arrival of European settlers in the 19th century. The practice was called ""whakahekeheke"", and was carried out using a variety of craft, including boards, or ""kopapa"", and even bags of kelp (""poha""). The influence of Christian missionaries led to a noted decline in surfing. It was later revived following a tour of New Zealand by Hawai'ian surfer Duke Kahanamoku in 1915, when he gave demonstrations to locals. By the 1920s and 1930s, New Zealanders were surfing using solid wooden boards. Surfing was utilized in the Surf Lifesaving"
"Bodybuilding in the United States Bodybuilding in the United States traces its early history to the 1860s when it was based on the east coast. By the 1940s, it had arrived in Hawaii. In the same period, the country was involved with the early internationalization of the sport. The sport had a golden age during the 1960s and 1970s when much of the activity was taking place on the west coast. Bodybuilding for women began to take off during the 1970s. A number of changes took place in the 1980s. Gymnasiums began to be built in the United States during"
"the 1860s, with most of the first ones based on the east coast. The spread of the tradition of physical conditioning was helped during this era because of the concept of muscular Christianity. In 1944, the sport made its way to Hawaii. By 1948, a resident of San Francisco moved to Oahu and opened a gym, one of the few at the time that catered to the specific needs of bodybuilders. The gym, Mit-Miks Health Studio, became one of the most influential centers for the sport in the state. During the 1940s and 1950s, Chuck Sipes and Bill Pearl were"
"spelled words such as ""pau"" (pronounced ""pow"") and ""pa'u"" (pronounced ""pah-oo"") from being confused. In 1917 Jack London wrote in his work ""The Cruise of the Snark"": Pa'u riders Paʻu riders (pronounced pah-oo riders), (sometimes written as ""pa-u riders""), are ""wahine"" () horseback riders who wear long, colorful skirts () and characteristically ride astride, rather than sidesaddle. This equestrian tradition's roots are from the early 19th century, when horses were introduced to Hawaii and aliʻi women dressed up to ride for formal occasions. It declined after the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, but was revitalized in the early 20th"
"The pa'u riding tradition began just after Captain Richard J. Cleveland introduced horses to Hawaii in 1803. Kamehameha disliked the creatures, partially on account of the amount of food they required, so western sailors began riding them along the beaches to demonstrate their capabilities. Hawaiian men and women quickly took to riding, establishing a long equestrian tradition that also includes the paniolo, the Hawaiian cowboy. As the early Western visitors to Hawaii were men, rather than women who might have introduced sidesaddle riding, Hawaiian women joined the men in learning to ride astride. Additionally, Hawaii soon established trade connections with"
"and kitesurfing. In 1996 Hamilton and Manu Bertin were instrumental in demonstrating and popularizing kitesurfing off the Hawaiian coast of Maui. In 1999 Hamilton sailed his windsurfer between the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauai, some fifty miles away, in just under six hours. Hamilton has also experimented with the foilboard, an innovative surfboard which incorporates hydrofoil technology allowing a higher degree of precision and effectiveness of aerial techniques within the water. He has become a proponent of Stand up paddle surfing, an ancient Hawaiian technique that requires a longboard and a long-handled paddle, as well as considerable skill, strength"
"the board is initially skimmed by a human) and to windsurf with a human, and bodysurfing dogs have also been documented in surfing media. Additionally, some dogs have been trained to ride on paddleboards with people. Dog surfing has been documented as occurring in the 1920s in California and Hawaii. In the 1930s, a silent film titled ""On The Waves in Waikiki"" depicts Phillip K. Auna and Night Hawk, his terrier, surfing together on a wooden surfboard in Hawaii. The terrier was able to perform the hang ten surfing maneuver on the surfboard. In 1944, a full page image of"
"boarding school to educate the children of the Hawaiian royalty (""aliʻi""). The school was first located where the ʻIolani Barracks stand now. The need for the school was agreed upon during the general meeting of the mission in June 1839. The buildings were ready by 1840, and two more students were added in 1842. An 1844 article in the ""Polynesian"" listed all children with the exception of John William Pitt Kīnaʻu, who had just enrolled, as ""princes and chiefs eligible to rulers."" The main goal of this school was to educate the next generation of Hawaiian royalty to govern. Seven"
"Hawaii in 17th Century. These instances are correlated to the Hawaiian tradition of ""he'e nalu"", which means ""wave-sliding"". Nick Gabaldon is first known African American surfer. Surfing is very much a part of Californian, Floridian, and Hawaiian culture. Surfing on the East Coast of the United States began in Virginia Beach, Virginia in 1909 when Burke Haywood Bridgers and a colony of surfers introduced surfing to the East Coast. The State of North Carolina honored Burke Haywood Bridgers and the colony of surfers by placing a North Carolina Highway Marker for PIONEER EAST COAST SURFING on Wrightsville Beach and designated"
"first successful attempt at paddling the 26 miles from the mainland to Catalina Island. Then on August 1, 1936, he set a milestone that still stands: entering the waves at Kalehuawehe near Waikiki, he made a run estimated at 4,500 feet, the longest recorded surf ride in history. While in Hawaii, Blake became fascinated by the traditional surfboards preserved at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu. These included a variety of styles, from the shorter alaia to the heavy, 16-foot long ""olo"" boards traditionally reserved for royalty. On his 1926 visit, he was able to secure permission from the"
"of Professional Bodyboarders World Tour, the governing tour determining bodyboarding's world champion. Current Men's APB World Tour champion is Jared Houston of South Africa. Current Women's APB World Champion is Alexandra Rinder of Canary Islands. nomad.com.au funkshen.com webodyboard.com Bodyboarding Bodyboarding is a water sport in which the surfer rides a bodyboard on the crest, face, and curl of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore. Bodyboarding is also referred to as ""Boogieboarding"" due to the invention of the ""Boogie Board"" by Tom Morey. The average bodyboarding consists of a short, rectangular piece of hydrodynamic foam. Bodyboarders typically"
"fishing. His family, the Kamakeeāinas, were a well known fishing family in the area, and stories can still be found today of their abilities in fishing. To the south of town is Pounders Beach, named for the pounding shorebreak. The name change occurred in the 1950s, when a group of students at the Church College of the Pacific (now Brigham Young University–Hawaii) called the beach ""Pounders"" after the shorebreak that provided popular bodysurfing rides; the nickname stuck. Another bodysurfing beach is Hukilau Beach, located at the north end of town, at the mouth of Kahawainui Stream. As of the census"
"a skilled surfer can ride a wave standing on the nose of a longboard with their toes over the nose's edge: in this way, with the ""toes on the nose"", the surfer can ""hang ten"". Compared to the shortboards, longboards are considerably easier to learn on as they are capable of achieving stability, thus making the transition quite difficult. Longboards are the original and very first variety of board used in standup surfing. Ever since the sixth-century CE the ancient Hawaiians have used solid wooden boards when practicing their ancient art of Hoe he'e nalu. Surfing was brought to the"
"of plywood. The nose of the board is up curved up. There are no swin fins. There is no leash because the board is easier to manage and to keep in hand. Wetsuits are not necessary because the skin is not irritated by the wood, as polystyrene of bodyboards do. Bellyboarding Bellyboarding is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a bodyboard on the crest, face, and curl of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore. Bellyboarding is the oldest form of surfing from ancient Hawaii & the Polynesian islands. The board design was based"
"person to write about the art of surfing on Hawaii when he was completing the journals of Captain James Cook upon Cook's death in 1779. When Mark Twain visited Hawaii in 1866 he wrote, In one place we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf-bathing. References to surf riding on planks and single canoe hulls are also verified for pre-contact Samoa, where surfing was called ""fa'ase'e"" or ""se'egalu"" (see Augustin Krämer, ""The Samoa Islands""), and Tonga, far pre-dating the practice of surfing by Hawaiians and"
"Kauai beach, where ""whites, blacks and Hawaiians, mixed cordially"" ""After a couple of months of attending informal meetings on Bahá'í teachings - I realized this was very something important not to toy with; rather to become immersed in."" ""I withdrew immediately from alcohol, drugs and sexual promiscuity"". Morey attributes inspiration for invention of the Boogie board (July 7, 1971) to a particular Baha'i prayer he kept coming across which included the passage ""convey upon me, oh, my God, a thought which will turn this planet into a rose garden.'"" He married Marchia Nichols, now Marchia Morey, ""mother of bodyboarding"", who"
"a handful of people surfed, mostly at Waikiki. But there, it started to grow again. Beginning in 1912, Duke Kahanamoku, a Hawaiian Olympic swimmer in the early 1900s, brought surfing to mainland United States and Australia. Because of this, Duke is considered the ""Father of Modern Surfing"". From that point on, surfing became an integral part of the California beach lifestyle. In Malibu (in Los Angeles county), the beach was so popular amongst the early surfers that it lent its name to the type of longboard, the Malibu Surfboard. In the 1920s boards made of plywood or planking called Hollowboards"
"during the 1960s, considers that outrigger canoeing should be recognised as the direct link between the idea of standing on a board and propelling it with a canoe paddle, since the individual SUP skills (board riding and paddling) already existed, used by people who had traditionally grown up learning them. Standup paddleboarding (SUP), the act of propelling oneself on a floating platform with the help of a paddle or pole, traces back to thousands of years ago and across many continents, but its current form and popularity originated in Hawaii in the 1900s. Records of earlier forms of SUP have"
"Malia (canoe) Mālia is a Hawaiian-style wooden racing canoe crafted by James Takeo Yamasaki. The canoe was hewn out of blonde koa wood in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, in 1933. Its wooden hull provided the founding model for all subsequent outrigger canoeing hulls, including those later molded from fiberglass. Hawaiian racing canoeist Tommy Holmes observed that ""Malia"" ""remains a prototype for contemporary racing canoes [and] was among the first canoes built exclusively for the sport."" The canoe was listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places in 1993. Outrigger canoe racing became popular in Hawaii during the early 1900s. Prince"
"Two years later, using this same , board, Blake won the Pacific Coast Surfriding Championship, first Mainland event integrating both surfing and paddling. Blake then returned to Hawaii to break virtually every established paddling record available, setting and records that stood until 1955. In 1932, using his drastically modified chambered hollow board, now weighing roughly , which over the next decade he would tirelessly promote as a lifeguarding rescue tool, Blake out-paddled top California watermen Pete Peterson and Wally Burton in the first Mainland to Catalina crossing race— in 5 hours, 53 minutes. During the 1930s, Blake-influenced hollow boards (called"
"been found as early as 1,000 B.C. (i.e. 3,000 years ago) and its iterations span over various regions such as Peru, Israel, Italy, China, and beyond. By contrast, the modern form of stand up paddle boarding, where a surfboard-like vessel is used, has a much clearer heritage, dating back to the 1900s and emerging from a collection of loosely related activities by a few very specific characters, such as Duke Kahanamoku and Dave Kalama. Once it reached California in the early 2000s, stand up paddling formed four epicenters, each with its own fountainhead: Rick Thomas (San Diego), Ron House (Dana"
"in Oceania. Starting around 1100 AD, the people of Easter Island would begin construction of nearly 900 moai (large stone statues). At about 1200 AD, the people of Pohnpei, a Micronesian island, would embark on another megalithic construction, building Nan Madol, a city of artificial islands and a system of canals. Hawaiian art includes wood carvings, feather work, petroglyphs, bark cloth (called kapa in Hawaiian and tapa elsewhere in the Pacific) and tattoos. Native Hawaiians had neither metal nor woven cloth. Rugby union is one of the region's most prominent sports, and is the national sport of New Zealand, Samoa,"
"reputation in November 1957 after surfing Waimea Bay<ref name='files.legendarysurfers.com/surf/legends/lsc208.html#haleiwa_boards'> </ref> in 25–30 ft surf when it had previously been thought impossible even to the local Hawaiians. He is perhaps best known for being the first surfer to ride a wave breaking on the outside reef at the so-called Banzai Pipeline in November 1964. It was later at Makaha, in December 1969, that he rode what many at the time believed to be the largest wave ever surfed. After that wave and the ensuing wipeout during the course of that spectacular ride down the face of a massive dark wall of"
"Pa'u riders Paʻu riders (pronounced pah-oo riders), (sometimes written as ""pa-u riders""), are ""wahine"" () horseback riders who wear long, colorful skirts () and characteristically ride astride, rather than sidesaddle. This equestrian tradition's roots are from the early 19th century, when horses were introduced to Hawaii and aliʻi women dressed up to ride for formal occasions. It declined after the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, but was revitalized in the early 20th century with the establishment of formal riding organizations called Pau Riders. Today, they participate in Kamehameha Day floral parades and other parades and festivals throughout the islands."
"Hawaiian Islands by Polynesians and has since become popular worldwide. The ancient boards were carved and fashioned out of solid wood, reaching lengths of long and weighing as much as . Both men and women, royalty and commoners surfed. But the longest of boards (the Olo) was reserved for royalty. During the 19th century, some extreme western missionaries actively discouraged surfing, viewing it as sinful. Surfing almost died out completely. In recent times replicas have been made of Olo's and alaia's by experienced surfers and shapers wishing to explore the roots of the sport. By the early 20th century, only"