GyroKumpass » Intro Text – Surf http://www.gyrokumpass.com True North for Outdoor News, Inspiration & Culture Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:03:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Intro Text – Surf http://www.gyrokumpass.com/index.php/2010/04/intro-text-surf/ http://www.gyrokumpass.com/index.php/2010/04/intro-text-surf/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:30:46 +0000 Marshall Cutchin http://www.gyrokumpass.com/?p=4308 Originally a Polynesian endeavor, but honed in the Hawaiian Islands for centuries, surfing and its modern day complexion of personalities, destinations, and sub-cultures are as diverse as the hand-crafted platforms intended to facilitate the sport: longboards, shortboards, guns, eggs, standup paddleboards, skimboards, bodyboards…

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“Surfing as a subject really has no edges. It’s not like baseball or aviation or beekeeping, where the relevant information—box scores, airports, honey produced—is more or less identifiable.” – William Finnegan, The Encyclopedia of Surfing

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