Surfing

Surfing or boarding is a water sport that consists of sliding and turning in a wave, standing on a board.
There is evidence of the presence of surfing for more than 500 years on the islands of Polynesia. The English explorer James Cook arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in 1778.
On the other hand in the north of Peru, local cultures left traces that show men climbing waves. The huacos are pre-Inca ceramics and one of them clearly shows a man on a tree or something similar in an attitude of sliding on a wave.4 This would indicate that everything started in South America, but it was the Polynesians in their constant swells between islands, who some centuries later, took the custom of sliding waves to places like Hawaii.
With the contact, the native cultures were repressed and the surf happened to lose height. James Cook was later killed by the natives. In the twentieth century, surfing recovered and with the influx of American tourists and military in Hawaii and the fame of the Hawaiian Olympic Duke Kahanamoku, surfing began to become popular on the coasts of California and Australia, creating the germ of a subculture in the environments in which it was practiced extending then to other countries.
This happened in the 50s and 60s. Then the boards were large solid wood objects and surfing was a simple practice. Later it became more difficult thanks to the audacity of pioneers like Óscar Rodríguez, patriarch of modern surfing of big waves. There was also an evolution in acrobatics and movements as well as an investigation into new designs and board materials that would allow other expressions. Currently, competitive surfing is fundamentally based on:
• The design and materials researches of aeronautical engineers surfers looking for a hydrodynamic optimization of the boards.
• The current of Australian evolution of style (broad and energetic movements).
• In recent years, it has included influences from skateboarding and snowboarding - sports in turn based on surfing.
Surfing was known in the 60s in many countries on different continents. Currently, it is practiced in almost the entire world, although the most buoyant tables and accessories industries have their headquarters in Australia, southern Europe and the United States. Among the destinations most requested by practicing travelers are Australia and Southeast Asia. Surfing is a thriving sport also in Latin America in some areas of Peru, Chile, Mexico or Brazil, with a large number of beaches suitable and ideal for this sport