Did the Irish invent Surfing?

[Tara Brady]

Very well.
Let's say he codified it.



2009/9/3 <malignd at aol.com>

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> I'm so hopelessly behind ...   Anyway --
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> If he revived it he didn't invent it.
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> -----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?
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> 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 <lt%3Bmarkekohut at yahoo.com>
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> 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<lt%3Brichard.romeo at gmail.com>>
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> > From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com <lt%3Brichard.romeo at gmail.com>
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> > Subject: Re: Did the Irish invent Surfing?
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> > To: "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com<lt%3Bjohncarvill at gmail.com>
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> > Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org <lt%3Bpynchon-l at waste.org>
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> > Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 11:21 AM
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> > more of  this locals rule bit
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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
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> > simply “the
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> > boys.” They use fear and their fists to command respect
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> > in the surf
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> > along the North Shore of Oahu,
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>  a seven-mile stretch of some
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> > of the
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> > world’s most renowned waves. At the celebrated Banzai
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> > Pipeline, they
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> > determine which waves go to whom, and punish those who
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> > breach their
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> > 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
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> > Shore and joined his childhood friend Kai Garcia, a former
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> > professional surfer and jujitsu champion known as Kaiborg
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> > for his
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> > fearsome superhuman reputation. Alexander had recently been
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> > released
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> > from prison after serving time for assault.
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> > “It was crowded when I came here,” Alexander said about
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> > Pipeline. “A
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> > lot of people in the water, not much respect. Where I grew
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> > up on
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> > Kauai, you respect everybody in the water, especially your
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> > elders.
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> > Don’t step out of line. We just brought that mentality
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> > over here.”
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> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:35 AM, John
> Carvill<johncarvill at gmail.com <Carvill%26lt%3Bjohncarvill at gmail.com>
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> > wrote:
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> > > Tribalism, turf wars, and Californian crypto-fascism:
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> > > "Few anthropological groups are as tribal and
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> > turf-conscious as
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> > > surfers, be they Californian, Hawaiian, Australian,
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> > South African,
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> > > British or=20D
> 0even Irish - a people who already know a
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> > thing or two about
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> > > turf wars.
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> > > Go to any renowned surfing beach and you'll always
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> > find that resentful
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> > > remnant of original surfer-inhabitants whose halcyon
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> > adolescence of
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> > > sun-kissed, carefree wavewalking has long since been
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> > eclipsed by the
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> > > world's discovery of their once enviably uncrowded
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> > breaks and peaks.
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> > > Strangers and outsiders are usually greeted by them
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> > with the
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> > > chip-on-the-shoulder salutation, "Locals rule!"
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> > > Right. I bet that's what those Hawaiians said to
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> > Captain Cook when
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> > > they bashed in his head with that rock: "Goddamn limey
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> > stepped into my
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> > > wave, brah!" Wallop...."
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/29/surfing-films-bustin-down-the-door
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