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World Surfing Champion Kelly Slater’s Surfboard

Kelly Slater, a supernaturally talented pro surfer from Cocoa Beach, Florida, has reinvented virtually every aspect of high-performance surfing. “his competitive statistics numb the brain” world champion Shaun Tomson said of Slater,…

CSMApril 9, 2019

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Body Surfing and Handplanes

In the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci experimented with various devices to improve the human physical condition: wings, vehicles and swim fins. At the same time, Hawaiians were leaving petroglyphic records of…

CSMApril 9, 2019

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Body Surfing and Handplanes

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