Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890-1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman. Long before Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz made their splashes in the pool, Kahanamoku emerged from the backwaters of Waikiki to become America's first superstar Olympic swimmer. The original "human fish" set dozens of world records and topped the world rankings for more than a decade. Kahanamoku used his Olympic renown to introduce the sport of "surf-riding," an activity unknown beyond the Hawaiian Islands, to the world. No American athlete has influenced two sports as profoundly as Kahanamoku did, and yet he remains an enigmatic and underappreciated figure: a dark-skinned Pacific Islander who encountered and overcame racism and ignorance long before the likes of Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson. Kahanamoku's connection to his homeland was equally important. He was born when Hawaii was an independent kingdom; he served as the sheriff of Honolulu during Pearl Harbor and World War II and as a globetrotting "Ambassador of Aloha" afterward. In Waterman award-winning journalist David Davis examines the remarkable life of Duke Kahanamoku, in and out of the water.

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Ahora en espanol El mejor manual practico del surf traducido del ingles, en edicion aumentada con nuevas imagenes y explicaciones. Surfea mejor es el libro imprescindible para surfistas, gente que frecuenta la playa y cualquiera que busque una manera sencilla y eficaz de ponerse y mantenerse en plena forma fisica. Un cursillo completo de surf que incluye acondicionamiento fisico, tactica y tecnica, conocimiento del mar y del mareaje, y mas. Ampliamente ilustrado con tablas, diagramas y fotos instructivas del surf. Surfea mejor te ofrece:
Fotos instructivas de todos los aspectos del surf.
Explicaciones tecnicas, con ejemplos y listas de puntos claves.
Entrenamiento con ejercicios para una preparacion completa.
Conocimiento del oleaje, su tamano y direccion.
Como abordar un break desconocido.
Interpretacion de olas, corrientes de resaca y ebulliciones.
Aprovechamiento de las mareas y corrientes. PARTE I: TECNICA DEL SURF
Preparacion y takeoff (el arranque) - Los giros - Colocacion de los pies - Frontside vs. Backside - Practica tecnica: puntos claves - Manejo del invento y el Momento Houdini PARTE II: CONOCE TU OCEANO
Viento, mar de fondo (swell) y olas - De donde provienen las olas del mar? - Como recorren el oceano las olas? - A que velocidad se desplazan la olas? - Cuan profundo es profundo? - Datos marinos PARTE III: CONOCE TU SPOT
Factor: direccion del oleaje y efectos en la zona del surf - Factor: las mareas - Con cual marea se corre mejor? - Obstaculos a la accion de las olas - Refraccion de las olas - Islas y sombras en el oleaje - Los efectos del viento - Cambios del oleaje en aguas someras - Interpretacion de los partes de swell - Cuan grande es grande? - Las ebulliciones (boils) - Las corrientes de resaca PARTE IV: ENTRENAMIENTO
Como sacar los mejores resultados - Conservacion de los hombros y la columna vertebral - Ejercicios claves para acondicionamiento, flexibilidad, agilidad APENDICE: Terminologia del surf (ilustrado)

Fit to Surf, a cutting-edge surfing-specific fitness guide, supplies surfers of all levels of experience with everything they need to create a personal fitness program that builds strength and endurance, increases balance and coordination, and minimizes the risk of injury.

Personal trainer Rocky Snyder--himself an avid surfer with two decades of experience riding the waves--provides easy to-follow, step-by-step instructions supplemented with 60photographs of conditioning exercises that can be performed at home, in the gym, or on the water.

There is no greater or more powerful or more pure human rapport with the elements than that experienced by a surfer dancing with the ocean. In "Dancing the Wave, Jean-Etienne Poirier brings alive the world of surfing by offering historical, anthropological, and cultural perspectives on this increasingly popular sport. By recounting tales of his own surfing adventures, he opens the door to this world beyond the summer sun and simple pleasures of the ride, inviting readers to reflect upon the true place of human beings in the universe.
This book is for all board riders, for all those who are touched by the forces of the ocean, and for all those who wish to understand the boldness of surfers, who join power and elegance in that harmonious dance with the sinuous movement of the wave.

If there was one story that enthralled and captivated the surfing world in the past decade, it was the resurrection of Australian surfer Mark Occhilupo. After a high of #3 in the world in the early 1990s Occy spent three years in the surfing wilderness, his ranking plummeting to a low of #490.

Then in spectacular fashion, Occy made a comeback and returned to the waves. In 1999, at Barra Beach in Brazil, he finally clinched the elusive crown and became the last surfing world champion of the twentieth century."

A Surfers Year" picks up where Occy left off in Rio, following the day-by-day highs and lows of life on the World Championship tour and his all out effort to successfully defend his title. A must for all surfing fans.

The mixed-race Hawaiian athlete George Freeth brought surfing to Venice, California, in 1907. Over the next twelve years, Freeth taught Southern Californians to surf and swim while creating a modern lifeguard service that transformed the beach into a destination for fun, leisure, and excitement. Patrick Moser places Freeth's inspiring life story against the rise of the Southern California beach culture he helped shape and define. Freeth made headlines with his rescue of seven fishermen, an act of heroism that highlighted his innovative lifeguarding techniques. But he also founded California's first surf club and coached both male and female athletes, including Olympic swimming champion and "father of modern surfing" Duke Kahanamoku. Often in financial straits, Freeth persevered as a teacher and lifeguarding pioneer--building a legacy that endured long after his death during the 1919 influenza pandemic. A compelling merger of biography and sports history, Surf and Rescue brings to light the forgotten figure whose novel way of seeing the beach sparked the imaginations of people around the world.

Surfing has fascinated filmmakers since Thomas Edison shot footage of Waikiki beachboys in 1906. Before the 1950s surf craze, surfing showed up in travelogues or as exotic background for studio features. The arrival of Gidget (1959) on the big screen swept the sport into popular culture, but surfer-filmmakers were already featuring the day's best surfers in self-narrated two-reelers. Hollywood and independent filmmakers have produced about three dozen surf films in the last half-century, including the frothy Beach Party movies, Point Break (1991) and Chasing Mavericks (2012). From Bud Browne's earliest efforts to The Endless Summer (1966), Riding Giants (2004) and today's brilliant videos, over 1,000 ""surfing movies"" have celebrated the ""stoke."" This first full-length study of surf movies gives critical attention to hundreds of the most important films.