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The First Description of Surfing is of Paipo Boarding ( Bodyboard)
". . . .a diversion most common is upon the Water, where there is a very great Sea, & surf breaking on the Shore.
The Men sometimes 20 or 30 go without the Swell of the Surf, & lay themselves flat upon an oval piece of plank about their Size & breadth, they keep their legs close on top of it, & their Arms are us’d to guide the plank . . ."
Source: Lt. James King, 1778, Kealakekua Bay, Hawai’i, from King’s unedited log of 1778. Reprinted in "The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery," by John C. Beaglehole (1967); as quoted in "Surfing, a History of the Ancient Hawaiian Sport," by Ben Finney and James D. Houston (1996, Pomgranate Artbooks, San Francisco).
Paipo (pipe-oh) is a Hawaiian word designating a short or small board.
Also known in Hawaiian as kioe, a body board, or belly board, from 2-to-4 feet long, ridden in the prone position
Forced to migrate into the vast region by the push of population and the pull of the horizon, the first Polynesians arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in the fourth century A.D.
The Polynesians who made the arduous journey from Tahiti and the Marquesas to Hawai'i were necessarily exceptional watermen and women who brought a deep love and knowledge of the ocean with them.
The Polynesians who made it to Hawai'i also brought their customs with them, including playing in the surf on paipo (belly) boards.
[from History of Surfing From Captain Cook to the Present, By Ben Marcus]
In ancient Hawaiian times "the construction of the few remaining papa he'e nalu
(pa-pa HAY-ay NA-lu) -- the wave sliding boards of ancient Hawaiians -- still show sophisticated parabolic contours, demonstrating a high degree of development.
Four types of papa he'e nalu rode upon the waves of long ago.
Listed in order of length, from longest to shortest, these surfboards were the:
super-long olo (O-lo),
kiko`o (key-CO-oo),
alaia (ah-LAI-ah)
and paipo (pipe-oh) bodyboard... .
Like the other shorter boards the paipo boards were made from either koa wood or ulu (breadfruit).
It was practiced on wooden boards until 1971
when the modern flexible board was invented by Tom Morey and
the sport started its path to being one of the fastest growing sporting phenomena of modern times.
The paipo evolved from finless shapes made from wood to fiberglass and foam boards with skegs and then evolved into the widely popular modern flexible foam bodyboard shape.
Prone riding craft of today feature all of these designs, materials, and combinations, but the contemporary bodyboard dwarfs the others in popularity.
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