Comments by "Teagirl009" (@Teagirl009) on "American Reacts to The MOST Dangerous and Heaviest Waves in Australia" video.

  1. Those waves are definitely not typical! Speaking of surfing in Australia... There's a cool connection between Hawaii and Australia 🏄‍♂️😎 Duke Kahanamoku (the surfing king who there is a statue of in Waikiki) came to Australia in 1914. There's a statue of the Duke overlooking Freshwater beach in Sydneys northern suburbs. He was here for a surfing carnival in December 1914 to Jan 1915, I believe. He helped popularise and expand surfing in Australia. I have read that he was the first person to surf a wave on a proper board in Australia. He constructed a solid board from local sugar pine tree and with it famously performed Hawaiian-Style surf shooting. The original board that Duke created, and rode has been kept on display at the Freshwater SLSC (surf lifesaving club) since 1952. He donated it on a subsequent visit to Sydney. Having lived in Sydney for many years until about a year ago, and having been to Hawaii years ago, I have been fortunate to see both statues up close! On the 10th of January 2015, they did a re-enactment to celebrate the 100 year anniversary. They invited Hawaiian surfer Duane DeSoto over to ride a replica of the Dukes heavy board. They called it Dukes Day. I'm not a surfer but I love history, I love Sydney, I love Hawaii and I love finding these kinds of cool historical connections 😊🏄‍♂️🤙 Here's a couple of videos on the Duke/Australia if you're interested. https://youtu.be/yD9rtpPuppY https://youtu.be/xA07qJ4kcRc
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