Where Was Surfing Actually Born: A Look at the Origins of Wave Riding
Community Modern surfing was born in Hawaii. But wave riding has probably been going on for centuries around the world. Photo: From the cover of the film, Anthropologists, when noting a time period associated with the first human inhabitation of the coast of West Africa, point to fossil kitchen shell middens dating back 170,000 years; dense academic tomes like Traditional Fishing Methods of Africa chronicle shoreline techniques in use over 10,000 years ago. So what? So, consider that 20 years ago I accompanied veteran surf explorers Randy Rarick and John Callahan to a tiny island...
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