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The ancient Hawaiian sportof surfing can be traced back...
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... as far as 1000 years ago,as men, women, children...
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... and even Hawaii'sgreat King Kamehameha...
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... enjoyed the thrill of riding waves.
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In the earliest descriptionof the sport by a visiting European...
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... Captain James Cook observedupon watching a surf rider...
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... in the year of 1777:
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"I could not help concluding this manfelt the most supreme pleasure...
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... while he was being driven onso fast and so smoothly by the sea. "
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Then in the 1800s,the waves fell flat...
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... with the arrivalof the Calvinist missionaries.
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Shocked and outragedby the state of undress...
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... and the easy mixing of the sexesthat surfing fostered...
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... the missionaries banned the sport.
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The extinct Polynesian pastimewas then reintroduced...
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... in the early 20th centuryby Alexander Hume Ford...
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... a globetrotting promoter, who setabout reviving island tourism...
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... by romanticizing surfing at Waikiki.
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In 1912 came surfing'sfirst international icon...
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... Waikiki beach boy and celebratedOlympic swimming champion...
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... Duke Kahanamoku, the only surferto ever appear on a U.S. Stamp.
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While traveling the globegiving swimming demonstrations...
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... Duke became surfing'sJohnny Appleseed...
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... introducing his favorite sportto far-flung places like California...
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... New York and Australia.
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One of the fans enthralledby the Duke was a young Wisconsin...
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