Fwd: Re: Did the Irish invent Surfing?

[malignd at aol.com]

I'm so hopelessly behind ...   Anyway --

If he revived it he didn't invent it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tara Brady <madame.brady at gmail.com>
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>
Sent: Sun, Aug 30, 2009 5:14 pm
Subject: Re: Did the Irish invent Surfing?

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





2009/8/30 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

don't know fer sure, but they did invent The Aryan Brotherhood.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Brotherhood



--- On Sun, 8/30/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:



> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>

> 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

>

>
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/sports/othersports/23surfing.html?_r=1

>

> 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

> determine which waves go to whom, and punish those who

> breach their

> code of respect for local residents and the waves.

>

> The Wolfpak formed a decade ago when Alexander moved to the

> North

> Shore and joined his childhood friend Kai Garcia, a former

> professional surfer and jujitsu champion known as Kaiborg

> for his

> fearsome superhuman reputation. Alexander had recently been

> released

> from prison after serving time for assault.

>

> “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.”

>

> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:35 AM, John
Carvill<johncarvill at gmail.com>

> wrote:

> > Tribalism, turf wars, and Californian crypto-fascism:

> >

> > "Few anthropological groups are as tribal and

> turf-conscious as

> > surfers, be they Californian, Hawaiian, Australian,

> South African,

> > British or=20D
0even Irish - a people who already know a

> thing or two about

> > turf wars.

> >

> > 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!"

> >

> > 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...."

> >

> >
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/29/surfing-films-bustin-down-the-door

> >

>

>