Who was the first recorded person to surf ?

Question

Who was the first recorded person to surf ?

Answer 1

Noah?

Answer 2

The Hawaiians left us more accurate evidence of their sport. Petroglyphs of surfers (that would be the first recorded surfers! - who they were...unknown), carved into the lava-rock landscape, and chants that tell the stories of great surfing feats, carried a symbolic lore throughout the generations. Some of these chants date as far back as 1500 A.D., which leads us to believe that surfing may have begun long before this time in the Polynesian culture.

Answer 3

It was a little known Hawaiian called Wesley Nackers. He obtained that name from falling on his groin as his board was not waxed!

Answer 4

he was called duke kahnamoko from hawaii was the first to push the sport and give it the initial boost of popularity, which others have carried on,but it was actually going on long before then, read the story of Eddie Aikau, youll learn lots about the history and emotion of surfing,also its great true story

Answer 5

the first recordings  were by lt.james king after captain cook waz killed. he made reports and drawings of surfing and surf boards at kealakekua bay in 1779.

Answer 6

Da Hawaiian's brudda!

Capt. Cook was the first "white" man to see us Hawaiian's

rip & tear da waves. Den, everybody else had fo' copy us.

Us guys da ORIGINAL surfas!!!

And dat's da fact!

Answer 7

The Hawaiians have been doing it for at least a thousand years. but exactly who is long lost to history.

Recorded might be The duke, a Hawaiian olympic swimmer who spread surfing around the globe. But check the recorded history of the calvanist missionaries to see if their were any named surfers from that period(the calvanist tried to destroy surfing)

Answer 8

The first European record of surfing in Hawaii comes from Lieutenant James King who completed the journals of Captain James Cook upon Cooks's death in 1779. At the time, surfing had already been an integral part of indigenous Hawaiian culture for generations. Native Hawaiian surfers rode waves lying down, sitting or standing on long, hardwood boards. Surfing is a sport of native Hawaiian life as any major sport is part of western life today, if not more. It permeated from Hawaiian society, including religion and myth. Hawaiian chiefs would demonstrate and confirm their authority by the skills they displayed in the surf.