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Surfing is a popular coastal sport, in which participants ride waves on a surfboard. All questions regarding surfing, surfboards, surf culture, the origins of surfing, and related surf questions should be asked here.

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Is there any places to surf where there are no sharks?

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There is no known ocean where sharks aren't around. Sharks play a main- role in the Eco- system and keep the food chain intact. Without them, there probably would be an overflow of bacteria, where no one would be able to swim in the ocean.

How often do people get eaten by sharks?

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There are no accurate records because people are frequently lost at sea for all kinds of reasons. Unless a body with clear evidence of a fatal shark attack is recovered, there's no way of telling whether a shark is responsible. It isn't like a car crash, where the cause of death or injury is often immediately clear. When it comes to analysing the threat to people from sharks it is necessary to consider many more people are killed by drowning, or attacks by marine creatures other than sharks, and many, many, more are killed or horribly injured simply driving to the beach. It's a matter of perspective.

What year did stand up paddle boarding originate?

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Here's a link to the history of Stand Up Paddle Boarding on the surfing side of things. It was a long time ago!!
http://www.supglobal.com/stand-up-paddle/stand-up-paddle-surfing-articles/6-the-history-of-stand-up-paddle-surfing.html

If you're interested in how we started doing it up here on Lake Tahoe, a few core locals have been paddling on longboards during the summer months for quite some time (most likely since the early '70s) after the Olympics brought us up to standard with other destinations.

As for full-on lake born, stand up paddleboard touring? Us and a few others started up about six years ago. Three years ago our founder Nate Brouwer decided to head out on the lake for a paddle on a typical board. It didn't work! It needed a displacement hull, so he back to the drawing board and started making his own boards.

Here's our story -
http://tahoesup.com/#/about

What is surfing god?

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The god of surfing is called HUEY, and is a fictional character that surfers can praise when the surf is good, and curse when the surf is......you guessed it!

How many people die from surfing?

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Skiing. Many people have died in avalanches and going extremely fast and then crashing into a tree. Surfing the only way to die is drowning pretty much.

What school did Stephanie Gilmore attend?

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A school in Australia

Can you surf on the East Coast?

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Yes you can but the only really decent waves come when there is a storm/hurricane on the way. East coast is noting compared to west coast or hawaii or Australia

Where did Layne Beachley grow up?

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layne beachly went to wadalba high school from year 7 up to year 12 and started surfing as soon as she finished high school.

What are the names of Bethany Hamilton brothers?

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They worked with Noah in a hotel and now they help Bethany

What surfing equipment has changed since surfing started?

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Fiberglass was the biggest innovation in surfing. It created light-weight and ultra-fast boards that could skim through the water at lightning speeds. Before fiberglass, all boards were made from wood.

Wave-runners are also a new innovation in the world of big wave surfing. Surfers can't always paddle into a massively large wave, so sometimes they must be towed in via a wave-runner.

New waxes make the boards slicker and obviously as the human race has become bigger and faster, so too have the surfers.

Back in the day, surfing was an almost oppressively male-dominated sport. Now, surfer chicks have their own circuits and prize money.

The internet has played a large roll in surfing, believe it or not, as people are sharing ideas on best locations to surf, photos, and instant surf reports for thousands of locations worldwide.

What does a child gain from swimming?

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I am a 12 year old that swims and I love it! I think I have gained being physically fit, learning to listen, and also to relate to other people by doing something we both love! I have also gained self confidence, and pride. I would reccommend swimming to anyone! ---- Aside from the above, children who are taught to swim gain confidence in the water. You never know when they might need that confidence. If they can swim and float, they'll never drown in water. Better to have those tools and never need them, than need them and not have them. Also, maybe one day someone who swam as a child (or even an actual child), will save the life of a non-swimmer, child or adult.

Why do you need a good balance for surfing?

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practice.

Who is a legend in surfing?

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Rodney Mullen because he invented most skateboarding tricks. I think he is considered as the father of skateboarding. i beg to difer with the guy above me......Jay Adams is the godfather of skateboarding.

Bethany Hamilton How did you become famous?

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Bethany Hamilton is called a soul surfer. She will not give up surfing for anything. While she was surfing lazily one day, her arm was bit off by a shark on Halloween. Today, missing one arm, Bethany Hamilton still competes in surfing competitions and wins mostly every one.

How many people die each year in Hawaii from swimmingsnorkeling and surfing?

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There is a study on the web indicating that between 93 and 97 a total of 17 drownings occurred in the entire state of Hawaii while surfing or bodyboarding. One could assume that most deaths while surfing would involve drowning, thus it would seem that this study can give us a good idea of the surfing related deaths per year at or near 4, at least during the stated time period; chances are it is not a lot higher now. More info in this link: http://www.aloha.com/~lifeguards/drownings93_97.HTML

Where did surfing originate?

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When it comes to surfing's origins, they can be traced with reasonable accuracy to the people who set out some 3,500 years ago from somewhere new New Guinea to investigate the vast ocean to the east.

These people -- a mix of humans from the Philippines, Indonesia and perhaps other parts of eastern Asia -- spent the next 3,000 years settling the Pacific Ocean, becoming Micronesians, Melanesians and Polynesians, sailing from Samoa and Tonga to Tahiti, Hawaii and finally New Zealand, mostly in double hulled canoes without engines, compasses, clocks, or guns.

It was one of humankind's most extraordinary achievements but you won't read much about it at school because it didn't involve western Europeans or Americans.

In any case, as they went, these people invented surfing for fun, first among the kids of Samoa and probably New Guinea, then among the Tahitians (where adults took up the sport), then eventually among the Hawaiians, where surfing really blossomed during the second millennium, crossing the thin line between sport and cultural essential. When they first saw people surfing in the late 18th century in Tahiti and Hawaii, Europeans were completely stunned and very impressed; Captain James Cook's lieutenant King thought it appeared to be "a most supreme pleasure", and he was dead right (though he didn't actually try it).

But surfing was beaten out of the Hawaiians through the 19th century by missionaries and pissed-off traders who wanted the locals to work, not play, and it took much of the first half of the 20th century to revive it. Surfing spread outward from Hawaii through this period, eventually to almost every nation with rideable waves on its coastline, and its durability is best attested to by the fact that once it's been taken up, no nation has been able to stop.

AnswerAs I understand it started during WW2 when soldiers in the South Pacific saw a wing from a fighter plane wash up on the beach. A soldier tried taking the wing back out and rode it in. AnswerActually it is a old tradition started by the Hawiian people in the late 1800's. AnswerSurfing was developed by Hawaiian islanders before the 15th century, I believe. It spread to the California coast during the 1920s and became very popular with Americans in the 1960s. AnswerPolynesia

actually ladies surf boarding originated in the desert when a Arab rode a wing of a jumbo jet down a sand dune and then got steaming and thought lets try it in the sea.

What is the benefit of a fin on a surfboard?

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The point of having a fin on the bottom of a board is to make sure you do not slide out or spin freely. It gives you a basis of control to have sharper turns and cuts.

How do you strip wax off a surfboard?

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get the wax and rub it on the board while its dry. the more wax, the better.

Best country for surfing?

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queensland. i know this because my cousin is a professional surfer and was told by her coach to make it big she should move to qld.

What do surfers consider a perfect wave?

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i have been surfing for a few years, and depending on where you live, a "perfect" wave can mean many different things. i live in southern california, where the surf is always decent or better, and to us, a perfect wave is one that gets around 6-7 feet, and peels, which is when the wave breaks from left to right or right to left, instead of the whole thing collapsing on itself, so that way you can ride the wave any way and have momentum to do some shredding.