Surfing Origins

In the early 1900's the Hawaiians organized the Hui Nalu (surf club) and competed in neighborly surf competitions with the Outrigger Canoe Club. This drew a great deal of attentiveness to the Waikiki surf shore, bringing a revitalized interest in the sport, which had fallen out of favor in the late 1800s.

[b]Water Sports Surfing [/b]

Duke Kahanamoku, an Olympic star in swimming, popularized the sport added by traveling internationally and showing off his surfing style to thrilled audiences colse to the world. He was favored by Hollywood elite; having acted in bit parts in films and was all the time recruiting new surfers wherever he went. He is credited with surfing the longest wave of all time in 1917, in the popular surfing area now called covering Castles in Waikiki. His 1000 meters plus wave article has yet to be overtaken.

In the 1930s, the sport of surfing was experiencing a Renaissance. Tom Blake, founder of the Pacific Coast Surf Championships that ended with the onset of war in 1941, was the first man to photograph surfing from the water. Other photographer and surfer named Doc Ball published California Surfriders 1946, which depicts the pristine coastal beaches and good-time, relaxed climate of surf living.

Surfing, although curtailed in the aftermath of Wwii, revived as all the time by the 1950s. Bud Browne, an finished surfer and waterman, created the first 'surf movie' with his 1953 "Hawaiian Surfing Movie". This inspired many photographers, filmmakers and surfers to continue documenting the sport, culminating with is arguably the best surf movie of all time, 1963's "Endless Summer" by Bruce Brown. The film opened up the genre of the surf movie and the art of surfing to non-surfing people, accumulating fans and lively neophytes.

Surfing Origins