Kahanamoku's father and uncle taught him how to swim when he was a kid with a traditional Hawaiian way - by throwing him to the side of an outrigger canoe into the surf. He learned quickly and scared in the water. Growing up, Kahanamoku spent all his spare time at the beach. As noted in the Great Athlete, "he could swim as easily as walking." In a teenager, he dropped out of high school for swimming, surfing, boat, surfboard shapes, and living on the beach. He and his friends were among the first called "sons of the beach." A man, tall and slender, Kahanamoku was a leader among his friends. He never drank or smoked, rarely fought, and trained consistently. Especially interested in surfing, she's largest councils from anyone. board his 16-foot weighed 114 pounds and patterned after an ancient Hawaiian designs. Around 1910, he persuaded others to try to use a surfboard again: they are about eight or nine feet, while he is now a ten feet shorter. To encourage long board surf smoothly through the necessary power. A scissors kick followed by a flutter kick gave her strength. His "Kahanamoku kick" will then be adopted by the freestyle swimmer after he began to destroy the world record swim.
After the Olympics, Kahanamoku cast about for something to be done. He read a water meter, working in the office preparing, and conducting surveys. None of this work was measured until stature as an Olympic gold medalist. He began to receive invitations to exhibitions and swim meets throughout the United States and Europe, and finally New Zealand and Australia. Wherever he goes, he will show surfing and swimming. Thus, he became an unofficial ambassador for Hawaii and for surfing. According to the King of the Surf, Kahanamoku was the first to showcase the tandem surfing and the first to show the wake surfing. "long surf boards which are recorded on the news.
In 1915, the board Kahanamoku introduced surfing to Australia. He has brought the board was not with him from Hawaii, so he built one there from sugar pine. Design concave on this board give it greater stability in rough surf. On January 15, he rode the board for three hours at Freshwater beach, pointing out the various tricks. Before the demonstration, the coast guard had tried to convince him not to surf in shark-filled waters. After that they asked if he had seen any sharks. As related in Surfers legendary, Duke said, "Yes, I saw a lot." When asked whether the shark had been disturbed, the answer is "No, and I did not bother them." He showed Australia how to build a board before he left.
Some rides take a legendary Kahanamoku surfing. Perhaps the most famous occurred in 1917, on the monster waves generated by after an earthquake in Japan. Seeing the wave caused many people to run for cover. Kahanamoku encourage surfboard to catch a wave, despite the obvious dangers. According to Legendary Surfers, he later related: "Sliding left along the watery monster's face, I do not know I was in the beginning of a journey that would become a celebrated and memoried All I know is that I have come to cope. with a wave, the highest bulkiest , the fastest I've ever seen. "Although the legend has been extended up to a mile more, he rode a wave of more than a mile to cut down some beaches.
In 1925, Kahanamoku shows another use for a surfboard - as a lifesaving device. He and the party of actors and actresses who camped on a beach when the cruise ship upside down from Newport Beach, California. Reaching a surfboard that, Kahanamoku release into the wild waves. Of the 12 passengers rescued from a cruise ship, he was able to rescue eight. Kahanamoku role in the development and manufacture of surfboards giant hole in the 1920s and 1930s, and adapted them to work saving lives. His book, World of Surfing, written with Joe Brennan, was published in 1968.
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Editing : Made Wisnu Wijaya
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