Surfing Culture

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One of the key contributors to the development of surfing culture is Tom Blake . He started surfing when he was young and continued with that sport until old age . At the age of twenty , he set a world swimming record at the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU ) after winning the ten-mile contest . In 1922 , Blake was working in the movies because he had water talents and thus built the first trail rest of surfing pack which he later capitalized on

(Warshaw , 2005 : 66 . Blake first surfed on a redwood plank he acquired when he was a life guard at Santa Monica Swimming Club but it was too heavy and cumbersome

In 1926 , Blake made his own surf board which he , together with Sam Reid used to pioneer surfing at Malibu point . In the same year , he made hollow surf boards which marked an advancement from the Paki 's boards (Cisco , 1999 : 277 . Tom Blake clinched the winning title in the 1928 Pacific Coast surfing championships with his board of olo replica . In that same year , he devised a hollow paddle board which he used as a turning tool (Finney Houston , 1996 : 82

Moreover , Tom Blake made a chambered sail board in 1929 . It was a hollow board which was of chambered-type . The board was known as `cigar board because it resembled a giant cigar (Warshaw , 2005 : 269 . Due to his increasing innovation techniques of making surfboards and paddleboards Tom Blake invented water-proof...