After decades of campaigning, surfing will makes its Olympics debut in 2020 in Tokyo.
The origins of surfing are murky, but European voyagers in the 1700s recorded seeing the sport practiced throughout the Polynesian Islands. British explorer Captain James Cook’s first lieutenant, James King, documented the activity in the posthumous portion of Cook’s diary, describing Native Hawaiians riding ocean waves on long, carved planks of wood off the coast of Hawaii island in 1779.
Evidence of similar wave-riding-via-wooden-vessels have also been recorded in West Africa and Peru. But historian Peter Neushul says that surfing’s modern incarnation — standing upright while riding a wave on a board — must be credited to Native Hawaiians, whose population was decimated after contact with Cook and his crew in 1778.
But with a weakened population and missionaries imposing moratoriums on certain Hawaiian cultural practices in the 19th century — including hula — surfing went into decline, although never truly went away, as Neushul noted that missionaries didAs the islands became increasingly popular tourist destinations, so did the sport. One practitioner, George Freeth, Jr.
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