Surf History

Surfing is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards theshore. Waves suitable for surfing are found primarily in the ocean, but are also sometimes found in lakes and rivers, and also in manmade wave pools.

Many variations of the sport exist and the definitions of what constitutes a suitable wave, what is a surfboard, and even what is a surfer, have been expanding and multiplying over the years. Bodysurfing involves riding the wave without a board, and is considered by some to be the purest form of surfing. Other variations that have existed for centuries include paipo boarding, stand up paddle surfing, and the use of boats or canoes to ride waves. More modern craft that are used include inflatable mats (surfmatting), bodyboards, and foils. As documented in various surfing documentaries (including "Fair Bits") other objects have occasionally been used instead of surfboards, including water skiis, wakeboards, desks, guitars, and doors. When more than one person uses the same craft to ride a wave together, it is known as "tandem" surfing. People have also helped enable dogs, cats, rats, and mice to surf using boards. Remote-controlled and non-controllable toys such as the Micro Surfer and Mini Surfer can also ride waves.

Two major subdivisions within stand-up surfing are longboarding and shortboarding, reflecting differences in board design, including surfboard length, riding style, and the kind of wave that is ridden.

In tow-in surfing (most often, but not exclusively, associated with big wave surfing), a motorized water vehicle, such as a personal watercraft, tows the surfer into the wave front, helping the surfer match a large wave's higher speed, which is generally a speed that a self-propelled surfer cannot match.

Surfing-related sports such as stand up paddle surfing, paddleboarding and sea kayaking do not require waves, and other derivative sports such as kitesurfing and windsurfing rely primarily on wind for power, yet all of these platforms may also be used to ride waves.

Recently with the use of V-drive boats, wake surfing, in which one surfs on the wake of a boat, has emerged.

Resume: Piece of Mind

Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our Ability to Remember?

This text is a about the impact of the internet and modern facilities on human mind and memorization skills. It discuss if the internet with all facilities that we have today like google, Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia plus the cell phones which keep everyone connected on the internet every time everywhere, including when we are sleeping. Because nowadays we do not need to remember the things anymore. We just need to “google” the question and the answer will be just there. We are not really trying to memorize things, friends contacts, food recipes, etc. Would be possible that a consequence of this is that we are all unlearning how to use our brain?

The Columbia University of Psycologist conduct a series of experiments to discuss this topic. The fact is, before the people do have to research to know about the things, but the information were never as accessible as today, so the people today just have ways to find the information easier and faster. So the text said that the people that do not have the information so easier to find they will try to memorize the facts in order to understand the concepts and this is worse for the brain the not try to memorize.

Concluding the text John Suler a psychology professor at Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J. agrees and said that we are still going to remember information that is importanto to us, and use the internet to find information that is less usual or not used often.