Surfing has been around for many years, in fact since 400 A.D and people are still going hard at it today and will for many more years to come. The very first surfers were the Island folk who would use the waves to get over the coral reefs and back to shore after their hard days of fishing. They found that this was the easiest and quickest way of transport over the reefs so they continued to do it for many years. As time went on the art of riding waves then developed into more of a ˇ§leisure sportˇ¨ than that of being a part of work. The first actual surfboarders originated in the 1920ˇ¦s where they rode large redwood planks t