Surfing

a surfer turned millionaire, who founded the GoPro Company in 2002. The company’s flagship product is a high-speed, durable camera used for extreme sports such as skydiving, surfing, biking, and much, much more. At the tender age of, Nick became an interstate surfing medalist, after inspiring himself with photos from a surfing magazine. He began his entrepreneurship as a teenager, selling t-shirts, and eventually entered UC San Diego, due to its close proximity to the beach. In the early 2000’s,…

water before she was even a year old on a board and ready to catch waves. Bethany Hamilton received her first board from her dad at just six years old and has surfed ever since setting goals to become better and better. Hamilton started competitive surfing at age of eight by age nine she had earned her first sponsorship. Hamilton and her family all surf and usually all of them try to go out every morning and catch some waves. The morning of October 31 2003 Hamilton lost her arm to a shark attack…

During the 1970's a group of skaters called the Z-boys created a punk style that still exists today. The skaters were part of a skate team called The Jeff Ho Zephyr team that's where they got the name Z-boys. The start of Z-boys was in 1973 when Jeff Ho opened his surf shop in Venice beach California. The first Z-boy was Nathan Pratt when he was 14 years old. He was hired to work as a surfboard maker and the founder of the Z-boys. By 1974 the Z-boys had 5 members Allen Sarlo, Jay Adams, Tony…

childhood growing up in East Los Angeles on the ghetto streets of Vermont avenue near its sandy beaches. where his love for surfing beings and his understanding of what society think of him and what he truly desires. Growing on the ghettos streets of east LA, as a child Jack Lopez, want to be nothing but a surfer. he thought he could do this by wearing the traditional surfing clothing of "baggy shorts, larger penny's town craft shirts" or by owning a Surfer Quarterly magazine. even with his…

She got her computer out and started looking for places to get some food from. She finally found a place she thought looked good. After her food got there she ate and relaxed for the rest of the night. She decided that the next morning she would go surfing. She started looking for her surf board, and then she noticed that she had forgotten it back at home. Since she left it at home, she had to go buy a new one. So, later that night she went out to the store. She finally found one she liked and…

One can treat themselves to scuba diving and snorkeling, while checking the outstanding marine life of marine eels, manta rays and stingrays. If not underwater, then there is kite surfing and windsurfing. The firms organizing the water sports also have the famed Hi-Winds Amateur World Challenge: a tournament for kite surfing and windsurfing. Flight tickets in this peak season are a prizefight to arrange; the airlines are chock-full! True bike-enthusiasts relish the exhilarating mountain bike…

water jetpack, the Maldives is also a favorite destination of wave hunters. Surfing season in the Maldives between March and October attracts surfers around the world to come and challenge themselves. Affected by the southwest monsoon, this season is often wet and rainy which brings many desirable, great billows. This is why international surfing events and competitions are often held in Maldives. Especially, Asian Surfing Championship held in Maldives in 2014 affirmed the attraction of Maldives…

One day she was out with her friend surfing when she has victim of a shark attack. Obviously losing your arm is a very big disappointment and setback in your life. You can no longer do some things you could when you had two arms. While Bethany was in the middle of passing out in the ambulance on her way to the hospital she was imagining herself surfing on a wave. She went under the tunnel. Just as she was coming to the end she saw a bright white…

Interdependence: Bethany showed interdependence through asking for help when she needed it after she first started practicing surfing again. She depended on her family's support to get through what she was going through because all of the support her family gave her motivated her to do her best and keep trying even if she didn’t get it the first time. However, she was also dependent…

Through the successful direction of Sunny Abberton and Macario De Souza, their intention to legitimise the struggles of the Bra Boys surf community is achieved in their confronting documentary, Bra Boys: blood is thicker than water. Filmed over 3 years and released in 2007, the documentary follows Maroubra’s ‘bra boys’ surf gang, primarily focused on the Abberton brothers; Jai, Koby and Sunny. The audience is positioned into accepting the bra boys as a fringe-group that have been victims of…