Surfing

Surfing is a surface water sport where a person (the surfer) moves along the face of a breaking ocean wave (the surf). Surfing also takes place on rivers, riding a standing wave.

Surfing was a central part of ancient Polynesian culture. The sport was first observed by Europeans at Tahiti in 1767, by the crew members of the Dolphin.

Surfing in Days of Infamy
Hawaii is the popular origin of surfing and the most popular water sport. Oscar van der Kirk and Charlie Kaapu are avid surfers, and taught tourists in learning how to surf. Waikiki's beaches was the popular site of surfing. During and after the Japanese invasion of Hawaii, Japanese soldiers and military personnel were unfamiliar with surfing, as it is nonnative and unheard of in their country, and were simply amaze by it. During the invasion Corporal Takeo Shimizu and Lieutenant Osami Yonehara first saw surfers Oscar van der Kirk and Charlie Kaapu, who were surfing. In which Shimizu consider them to be kami (spirits) and Yonehara even in comparing them to Jesus Christ walking on water.