This spring quarter, UC Santa Cruz Humanities students immersed themselves in the story of three Hawaiian princes who introduced surfing to the United States in the late 19th century, using Santa Cruz ...

When many people think about images of vintage California surfing, they primarily picture ads or album covers from the 1950s through the 1980s of life on the coast. They might recall comedic films ...

Surfing has been around for centuries. It is well-known that the ancient Polynesians and Hawaiians were among the first to ever ride the waves, but there are accounts of surfing that go back even ...

SANTA CRUZ — Here’s a fun activity: Ask anybody — it doesn’t even need to be somebody local — what things they most associate with Santa Cruz. If surfing is not the first thing they bring up, it ...

Surfing might not immediately strike one as a subject filled with history, but Professors Peter Westwick and Peter Neushel prove that the multi-billion dollar industry has a complicated past in their ...

“My first trip out here, in 1990, I was 18 years old. Instantly, Cloudbreak and Restaurants became my favorite waves in the world.” – Kelly Slater For someone who has surfed nearly every conceivable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surfing has been around for centuries. It is well-known that the ancient Polynesians and Hawaiians were among the first to ever ...