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Page 302 Surfboard riding in Hawaii is the thrilling sport of hundreds who have learned to perform the feat in the warm waters at Waikiki where it is always summer. A coloured version was later printed in The Mid-Pacific Magazine Published by Alexander Hume Ford, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, Volume 25, Number 5, 1923, inside cover. See: 1923 Mid-Pacific Magazine : Surfboard Riding in Hawaii. |
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Page 303
The trick of standing on the
surfboard as it is hurled before thewave is the quick lightening like agility necessary to rise to the feet at perfect balance. First printed in A.H. Ford: Freeth Will Ride Atlantic Rollers! The Hawaiian Gazette. Honolulu, June 28, 1907, page 6. Although accredited to Ford, the photograph is by Edward P. Urwin. |
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Page 304
Children of five and six years of
age own and operate their surf
boards at Waikiki. They begin in the small surf that sweeps up to the beach and later tackle the big rollers on the reef. |
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| Page 305 Sometimes the wave is caught a
mile out at sea and
a skilful surfer may hold his wave, standing on his board, until it touches the beach and he steps ashore. |
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| Page 306.a Far out at sea the expert
guides his board with perfect ease once he has
caught his wave.
Not
reproduced from this magazine,
and actually A.R. Gurrey Jr.: Duke Kahanamoku, Waikiki, 1910. Initially
appearing as an advertising logo, And as the
cover photograph of |
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| Page 306.b Near the beach the gentlest ripples are made to carry the surf board rider a few hundred yards towards shore. |
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| Page 307 The surfboard of today is far larger than the board of a decade ago, then a board eight feet long would have been scorned as fit only for the new-comer, but it is easy to ride so has been generally adopted. Film strip shot by Burton Holmes, circa 1908. See page 309. |
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| Page 308 Second only to the surfboard in
Hawaii is the outrigger canoe
carved from the native Koa wood, a lost art today, although a number of canoes survive. |
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| Page 309 Burton Holmes
is seen here in the canoe that carried him a mile
before one great roller before which sped other canoes and many surfboards with their riders. |
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| Page 310 This is the
beginning of the Outrigger Canoe Club some ten
years ago when grass houses served
the bathers and an unimproved beach a resting place for canoes. |
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| Page 311 The modern
hotel at Waikiki grows larger and larger but the
ancient Hawaiian outrigger canoe still holds its
own as the only pleasure craft that survives in
the surf at Waikiki.
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| Page 312.a It is the
ambition of every boy at Waikiki
to learn to guide an
outrigger canoebefore the big waves. |
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| Page 312.b The small boy
at Waikiki also learns
to sail his outrigger canoe and becomes an adept. |
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| Page 313.a Less than a
decade ago at Waikiki
the grass house and the native canoe were seen side by side. |
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| Page 313.b Today at
Waikiki modern roofing is
built over Koa canoes that grow more valuable as the years fly by. |
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| Page 314 Surfboard
riding has been revived by the
Outrigger Club at Waikiki. There are some twelve hundred members, men, women and children. It is the largest club in Hawaii. |
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| Page 314 Duke
Kahanamoku, the world's champion swimmer,
is also the champion among surfboard riders, he is seen here with a junior member of the Outrigger Club at Waikiki.on his shoulders, riding the waves. Originally published as RIDING THE SURFBOARD AT WAIKIKI BEACH, HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII. Copyright 1910 A.R. Gurrey Jr. The Mid-Pacific Magazine Published by Alexander Hume Ford, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, Volume 1, Number 1, January,1911, page 2. Desoto Brown noted: "Duke (presumably) with boy on his shoulders (identified in another copy of this photo in our collection as Charlie Little. |
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Published by Alexander Hume Ford, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, Volume 18, Number 4, October,1919. Hathitrust http://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.098054302 |
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