Surfing Research Paper

In order to try and understand a culture, it is necessary to closely analyze its history. The first reporting of surfing, the activity, to the western world was by diary entries that came behind the Pacific voyages of Captain Cook and his crews during the Resolution and Discovery. Surfing’s popularity in Hawaii dramatically decreased to where it almost disappeared as an activity because of the way it was looked down upon by western religious colonists and missionaries. In this era, most western cultures basically forbade swimming in the sea, due to its public nature and prudent citizens.
While almost all surfing in Hawaii had disappeared in the early 1900s, three ‘Haoles’[4]: Alexander Hume Ford, Jack London, and George Freeth helped to bring