Duke Kahanamoku Quotes

Did you know? Duke Kahanamoku competed in four Olympics from 1912 to 1932 setting three world-records, while winning three gold medals, two silver, and one bronze.

it was the Hawaiians who took it to the next level and who recognized surfing as exhilarating, primal, addictive fun, tasting the salty spray while moving through coils of liquid, feeling the wind and the sun and being at one with the mysterious universe.

Unlike Herman Melville and Mark Twain, London brought his readers into the surf from the moment he espied “the white-headed combers thrust suddenly skyward out of the placid turquoise blue and come rolling in to shore. One after another they come, a mile long, with smoking crests, the white battalions of the infinite army of the sea. And one sits and listens to the perpetual roar, and watches the unending procession, and feels tiny and fragile before this tremendous force expressing itself in fury and foam and sound.”12