Fashioning Waves In Waikiki - Hawaii’s Surfriding Inheritance
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008The Hawaiian are credited with being the male parents of surfing, and are cognized to have practised the sport as early as the 15th century AD. The Hawaiian name for surfing “He’enalu” - can be interpreted as wave sliding. During its early chronicle, surfing was interpreted as a consecrated pattern and only those with a high societal status could occupy part; in early language - Hawaiian kings and Queens were surfers.