Surfing in Waikiki
The Hawaiian are credited to the fathers of surf, and it is known that these sports since 15 Century of our era. The name Hawaiian surfing “He’enalu” - can push through microwave. While the beginnings of history, surfing was considered sacred usual, and only those who have a high social status to participate, in other words - Hawaiian kings and queens were surfers. Ironically, today, surfing, is supported by the population as a sport for those who have abandoned the Company, which is in contradiction to the way he started.
As people live on a series of small islands in a sea very large, and the Hawaiian Not surprisingly, fascinated by the ocean and a great importance to the moods and forms. Just as the Inuit have many names for snow, which also have hundreds Hawaiiens words to describe the various forms of ocean that is constantly evolving.
Like the beggars of Modern Surfing on surfing as a form of life is not only a sport, and thus a large part of the time and cost required for the pursuit of the waves, which was also the Hawaiian names with unfathomable practice, as the writings of Kepelino Keauokalani, 19th Hawaiian Century Scholar, shows in her opinion by the local surfing Hawaiian:
“All the works, the idea is too late, but the left is the sport. Woman can go hungry, the children, the whole family, but the head of the house is not aware. Everything is for sport, which is his food. Whole day , but there is nothing to surf. surfing Many leave from four o’clock in the morning: men, women, children. ”
This was the wish of the former Hawaiian wave of sliding far when storms do not have enough overlapping waves, the surfers, whether working with a “kahuna” - a priest who pray, and the questions come surf gods in Hawaiian shores.
However, the surfing is the transition to a period of decline after the arrival of Christian missionaries who believed, surfing, it was an act hedonistic and a waste of time. They preach surfing categorically against the existence, and at the end of 1800, this sport has been almost completely eradicated. N’eût were some hard-core users who continue to practice the sport of Hawaiian kings and, as David Kalakau, surfing, all gone.
However, the gradual reduction of the influence of missionaries surfing allowed to breathe again, and from the beginning of 1900, surfing is not only returned to his old popularity in Hawaii, but he begins to be transferred to other areas of the world.
At the end of the years 1920, tourists from around the world were rebuilt, in the booking of hotels in Waikiki by hundreds, all happy about the most famous in the world, and the exotic beach “surf people” for them - equals. Some 30 years later, and surfing on the waves of migrants in the United States began arriving from California in search of fame Hawaiian waves, which had reached the status of a legend is surfing circles.
Now, surfing is an industrial billion US dollars, practised throughout the world from Iceland on Indonesia - but let us not forget the pioneering role Hawaiian kings and queens, without which the sport can not surf - never been invented.
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