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The art of surfing, called he'enalu in the Hawaiian language, was first described in 1769 by Joseph Banks on the HMS Endeavour during the first voyage of Captain James Cook.
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When the missionaries from Scotland and Germany arrived in 1821, they forbade or discouraged many Polynesian traditions and cultural practices, including, on Hawaii, leisure sports such as surfing
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In 1907 George Freeth was brought to California from Hawaii, to demonstrate surfboard riding as a publicity stunt to promote the opening of the Los Angeles-Redondo-Huntington railroad
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Around the beginning of the 20th century, Hawaiians living close to Waikiki began to revive surfing, and soon re-established surfing as a sport
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Surfing on the East Coast of the United States began in Virginia Beach, Virginia in 1912 when James Matthias Jordan, Jr. captivated the locals astride a 110-pound , 9-foot Hawaiian redwood
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Surfing was brought to Australia in 1915 by Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku.[3] He demonstrated this ancient Hawaiian board riding technique at Freshwater (or Harbord) in Sydney
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Surfing's development and culture was centered primarily in three locations: Hawaii, Australia, and California, although the first footage of surfing in the UK was in 1929 by Louis Rosenberg
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It was in the 1960s when it truly became worldwide and the release of the film Gidget boosted the sport's popularity immensely, moving surfing from an underground culture into a national fad
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The creation and evolution of the short board occured in the 70s
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Proffestional surfing didnt really began until 1990, after the greast growth in popularety
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Surfing today has grown alot since its 1769 orgin. New ideas are making surfing grown in oularity everyday. One new type of surfing is tow-in surfing
