Did the Irish invent Surfing?

[Mark Kohut]

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--- On Sun, 8/30/09, Tara Brady <madame.brady at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tara Brady <madame.brady at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Did the Irish invent Surfing?
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com>, "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 5:14 PM
> Yes, actually.
> We owe all of modern surfing to George Freeth,
> an Ulsterman who revived the lost Polynesian art after
> Christian missionaries had all but eradicated
> it.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Freeth
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> 2009/8/30 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> 
> don't know fer sure, but they did invent The Aryan
> Brotherhood.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Brotherhood
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> --- On Sun, 8/30/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
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> > Subject: Re: Did the Irish invent Surfing?
> 
> > To: "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> 
> > Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> 
> > Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 11:21 AM
> 
> > more of  this locals
> rule bit
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> >
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> > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/sports/othersports/23surfing.html?_r=1
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> > SUNSET BEACH, Hawaii — They are known as the Wolfpak
> or
> 
> > simply “the
> 
> > boys.” They use fear and their fists to command
> respect
> 
> > in the surf
> 
> > along the North Shore of Oahu, a seven-mile stretch of
> some
> 
> > of the
> 
> > world’s most renowned waves. At the celebrated
> Banzai
> 
> > Pipeline, they
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> > determine which waves go to whom, and punish those
> who
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> > breach their
> 
> > code of respect for local residents and the waves.
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> > The Wolfpak formed a decade ago when Alexander moved
> to the
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> > North
> 
> > Shore and joined his childhood friend Kai Garcia, a
> former
> 
> > professional surfer and jujitsu champion known as
> Kaiborg
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> > for his
> 
> > fearsome superhuman reputation. Alexander had recently
> been
> 
> > released
> 
> > from prison after serving time for assault.
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> >
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> > “It was crowded when I came here,” Alexander said
> about
> 
> > Pipeline. “A
> 
> > lot of people in the water, not much respect. Where I
> grew
> 
> > up on
> 
> > Kauai, you respect everybody in the water, especially
> your
> 
> > elders.
> 
> > Don’t step out of line. We just brought that
> mentality
> 
> > over here.”
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> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:35 AM, John Carvill<johncarvill at gmail.com>
> 
> > wrote:
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> > > Tribalism, turf wars, and Californian
> crypto-fascism:
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> > >
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> > > "Few anthropological groups are as tribal
> and
> 
> > turf-conscious as
> 
> > > surfers, be they Californian, Hawaiian,
> Australian,
> 
> > South African,
> 
> > > British or even Irish - a people who already know
> a
> 
> > thing or two about
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> > > turf wars.
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> > >
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> > > Go to any renowned surfing beach and you'll
> always
> 
> > find that resentful
> 
> > > remnant of original surfer-inhabitants whose
> halcyon
> 
> > adolescence of
> 
> > > sun-kissed, carefree wavewalking has long since
> been
> 
> > eclipsed by the
> 
> > > world's discovery of their once enviably
> uncrowded
> 
> > breaks and peaks.
> 
> > > Strangers and outsiders are usually greeted by
> them
> 
> > with the
> 
> > > chip-on-the-shoulder salutation, "Locals
> rule!"
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> > >
> 
> > > Right. I bet that's what those Hawaiians said
> to
> 
> > Captain Cook when
> 
> > > they bashed in his head with that rock:
> "Goddamn limey
> 
> > stepped into my
> 
> > > wave, brah!" Wallop...."
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> > >
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> > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/29/surfing-films-bustin-down-the-door
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