a Douglas fir staircase and a portrait of Yosemite’s El Capitan. The company’s café serves organic food and drinks. There’s an infant and toddler child-care room for employees’ children. An easy one-block walk from the Pacific Ocean‚ employees’ surfboards are lined up by the cafeteria‚ ready at a moment’s notice to catch some waves. (Current wave reports are noted on a whiteboard in the lobby.) After surfing or jogging or biking‚ employees can freshen up in the showers in the restrooms. And no one
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nine‚ she had won herself a sponsorship. At the young age of thirteen‚ she was attacked by a shark‚ resulting in her losing her left arm. She was back in the water surfing a month after her surgery. Without ambition she would have never touched a surfboard again. It takes courage to overcome incidents that almost take a life. The music business is nothing to play around with. Owner of Roc-A-Fella Records‚ Jay-Z‚ grew up in a harsh Brooklyn neighborhood. When he was a young man‚ Jay-Z had strong dreams
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to keep his feet secure. This was the very first recorded snowboard. However crude it may have been‚ it was still a snowboard. Next on the scene was Sherman Poppen who loved to surf. In 1965‚ he created a surfboard for the snow. Voje says that Poppen’s wife came up with the name for the surfboard for snow. She called it the snurfer. This design was made by binding two skis together with a rope attached at the nose of the board for people to hold. He made the first one for his daughter but soon found
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dangerous‚ racking up deaths way higher than windsurfing. People have been dying from wave surfing for at least 600 years! Windsurfing was pretty much invented in the USA in the 1960s by Hoyle Schweitzer and Jim Drake. They attached a sail to a surfboard using a universal joint‚ patented the idea‚ and spent a large amount of the next 15 years taking legal action against anyone who tried to sell anything similar or even use a word like ’Windsurf’ to sell a magazine. The patent was never granted in
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there is no way to prove this for sure. Surfing became more and more popular and skateboarding became a way to “surf” on land. The Beginning of Skating Roller Derby‚ starting in 1959‚ produce many skateboards with metal wheels. A couple years later surfboard companies started making better quality skateboards using clay wheels and trucks to make skating easier. Soon after that the first skate contest was held in California‚ 1963. Skating continued on and the wheels of skateboards and
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others hearts from what he has done over his lifetime. Eddie’s legacy is shared to lots encouraging surfers and future surfers to follow in his steps. Eddie Aikau’s strength has been exhibited through what he did best shredding enormous waves on his surfboard at Oahu’s North Shore. Not only was his strength exhibited while he surfed but it was as well shown when he was with others. Eddie was the type of guy who would sacrifice his life just to save the life of others and he did when he was on the Hokulea
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Judge Julie‚" the commentator says. While he is talking all the surfers are getting ready. When Willy says there name they wave to the crowd‚ making them go ballistic. At the same time‚ all the judges are walking by to make sure the competitors surfboard are legal to be used and check if the surfers
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photographer‚ especially when the waves are good‚” he says. Woodman‚ 36‚ eventually decided to solve the problem and founded GoPro in 2002. GoPro makes a small‚ durable‚ lightweight (just 3.3 ounces) camcorder and special mounts to attach the device to surfboards‚ helmets‚ ski poles‚ car hoods‚ or pretty much anything else. It’s become a phenomenon in the world of extreme sports‚ with back-country snowboarders‚ kayakers‚ scuba divers‚ and others using it to document their feats. Woodman’s company has sold
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thrill of riding waves. Then in 1948‚ a newspaper photograph of a 30-foot wave started a migration to Hawaii’s big wave paradise. The American redwood boards were far too heavy for those waves so‚ designer George Downey built the first big wave surfboards using fiberglass and balsa wood. Among the living legends‚ a surfing expert‚ Greg Noll found himself immersed in the emerging sub culture. He was the kind of guy who had no fear. He once rode one of history’s biggest waves
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Mount Rainier Mount Rainier is home to Columbian black-tailed deer‚ black bear‚ and elk. You can visit Mount Rainier year round because it is open all year long. The most popular time to go to Mount Rainier is in July or August because that is the time when the wildflower is in full bloom. The park has many species of wildlife‚ but in recent years park researchers have noticed a significant change in behavior of the park animals‚ as a result of people feeding the animals. That is bad because
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