Article: Catch A Wave The Hawaii Way
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Catch A Wave The Hawaii Way
When you?re on the deck of your cruise ship off the coast of Hawaii, you may just catch a glimpse of some dedicated surfers riding on top of a tall wave. Watch the sun beat down on their glistening backs as the sea spray hits their tanned faces.
Hawaii is a surfer?s paradise. The Pacific, after all, is where surfing originated and became almost an art. Hawaiians used to have a strict social class order called ?kapu?. The kapu system of laws separated royal Hawaiians from commoners.
Surfing was a big part of traditional Hawaiian culture, and kapu law determined where people could surf, how big their surfboards were, and even what materials boards could be made out of. Of course, Hawaiian royalty had the best and biggest boards, as well as the choicest surfing s...
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