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Surfings' Olympic Debut
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Depends on if his God defeats Italo's or Gabe's God in a game of poker.
Well you just knew this was coming.
abcnews.go.com
Olympic surfing exposes whitewashed Native Hawaiian roots
For some Native Hawaiians, surfing’s Olympic debut is both a celebration of a cultural touchstone invented by their ancestors, and an extension of the racial indignities seared into the history of the game and their homeland
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A complete load of utter ethnocentric rubbish.Well you just knew this was coming.
Olympic surfing exposes whitewashed Native Hawaiian roots
For some Native Hawaiians, surfing’s Olympic debut is both a celebration of a cultural touchstone invented by their ancestors, and an extension of the racial indignities seared into the history of the game and their homeland
As has been stated many times, surfing probably did not originate in Hawaii, or even in Polynesia. We will never know, but many people from many cultures worldwide have been riding waves on boards for centuries. Anyone with deep travel experience in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, São Tomé, Madagascar, Peru and other places will know - they have seen the modern version of what people in these places have been doing for millennia.
What is certain is the first recorded observation of surfing by educated Europeans was described by Captain James Cook and Joseph Banks - in text and illustrations. Incidents of surfing in many other places before this had never been recorded as most seamen were illiterate and did not have an interested audience - Cook and Banks were both literate and did have an interested audience, being commissioned by the Royal Navy to record the transit of Venus in Tahiti in 1769 along with and any and all interesting natural and human history in the Pacific - like natives riding waves on surfing boards.
I have some sympathy for the Kahanamoku family not controlling their surname trademark, but the rules for trademark registration are the same for everyone regardless of ethnicity. If you can't manage it yourself, find a lawyer who can do it for you.
Business doesn't run on sentiment and if the Kahanamoku name has value in the marketplace, no one is going to give the family money for their dead ancestors legacy -
The business acumen of the Quiksilver people certainly made a lot of money in partnership with the Aikau family, maybe another company can do the same for the Kahanamoku clan.
I will drag my balls through a mile of broken glass, just to hear her fart through a walkie-talkieAlica has some damn good genes. Are those 501s?
A few years ago he and his sister showed up where we were surfing. The waves were waist to chest high, crumbling and really weak. He put on a hell of a show. It was amazing to see what he could do with such gutless waves. His little sister rips too.do you think Medina is just as good in the s m a l l stuff?
pic from that day
Team USA Inspects Japan’s New Wave Pool During A Practice Session
John Florence, Kolohe Andino, Caroline Marks, and Carissa Moore ran Olympic warm-up laps at the water park yesterday.
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That looks incredibly lame.Team USA Inspects Japan’s New Wave Pool During A Practice Session
John Florence, Kolohe Andino, Caroline Marks, and Carissa Moore ran Olympic warm-up laps at the water park yesterday.
It looks kinda weak. Like, it's steep, but looks like there's no juice to it
Never the less, I hope they build them everywhere. Everyone's ocean positioning sense will be crap and I'll get more waves
I cant imagine how happy i would be to get a box full of those boards delivered to me for free. Instead i wait 3 months for one board i pay full price for
I'm a John fan and I don't think he should be back so soon. If it's small, which it most likely will be, he's going to have a tough time against the Brazzos even if he wasn't coming off of ACL surgery. Maybe the injury wasn't that bad. I just don't have a good feeling about this.
Carissa. Go girl!
Carissa. Go girl!
I dunno how Barton is planning to get into Japan, he's not vaccinated.
Why do you say that? Were you a disappointed olympic hopeful, or just some mouthy shmuck on the internet?
I'm kinda looking forward to this.
Wonder if they can come up with a better format than the WQS/SL .... Maybe a round robin by countries including men/women/other all into one same category?
Wonder if they can come up with a better format than the WQS/SL .... Maybe a round robin by countries including men/women/other all into one same category?