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A History of surfing
 The history of surfing 18. UNDOUBTLY goes back a long way. It seems to 19. HAVE FORMED a central part of the culture of the Polynesian people, who were inhabitants of islands in the Pacific Ocean such as Samoa, Tonga and Hawaii. These people 20. REGARDED surfing as a mere recreational activity. For them, it was much more of an art. Although surfing 21. APPEARED from many parts of Polynesia in the early twentieth century, a small number of people in Hawaii 22. KEPT the tradition alive. In 1912, it spread to the east coast of the United States, and in particular to Virginia Beach, which became an important surfing centre. Surfing developed quite 23. RAPIDLY from then on, and the design of surfboards became more sophisticated. However, it was not until the 1960s that surfing came 24. TO BE a truly global phenomenon, boosted not only by the success of surfing films but also by pop songs about surfing culture.