What is Surfing?

1. What is Surfing? - Surfing is a surface water sport in which the participant is carried along the face of a breaking wave, most commonly using a surfboard.

2. Areas in the Northwest Surfing Snowboarding and Skiing

3. Snowboarding Surfing in the Northwest Point Break Beach Break

4. History of Surfing • Surfing was started around 1000-4000 years ago in the Pacific • The first surfboards were made out of long pieces of wood from the balsa trees • Surfing spread among the islands and eventually hit the mainstream in 1779 from the writings of explorers

5. Surfboard Diagram

6. Snowboarding

7. History of Snowboarding • Snowboarding was developed in the 1960’s and 1970’s in the United States • Snowboarding is similar to skiing, but is inspired by surfing and skateboarding • Snowboarding gained popularity and became and Olympic Winter Sport in 1998

8. Snowboard Diagram

9. Skiing

10. History of Skiing • Skiing was started around 4500 to 5000 years ago • The first skis were nothing more than planks of wood attached to the feet • Skiing became an Olympic Winter Sport in Oslo in 1952

11. Ski Diagram

12. Surfboard Waxing Old wax scraped off Board with old smudged wax New wax put on and penny to show size

13. Surfing - Me