A brief history of surfing
Most (0) historians agree that surfing began centuries ago in the Hawaii islands in the Pacific Ocean,where the (25) regarded it as an important part of their culture, not as a recreational(26) It was not until the early 20th century that it achieved (27) as a sport, and for many years it remained(18) to see surfers anywhere other than in three main (29) Hawaii, California and Australia.
All that began to change in the 1960s, partly as a result of(30) in the design of surfboards, but also because of the success of films and pop bands, (31) The Beach Boys, that were associated with surfing culture. Since then there has been rapid (32) in the popularity of surfing throughout the world, and for many surfers it has become a highly (33) sport that requires skill and courage to deal with the (34) conditions in some of the roughest seas on Earth.