21 November 2013
Justice for Surfing
Now usually when someone thinks about the Olympics, normally they would imagine extreme and exciting sports. It’s something that everyone can enjoy and have fun watching with their friends and family. People get excited to watch basketball, swimming, rowing and for some very peculiar reason curling. But why is it that we don’t have surfing as a sport in the Olympics? It’s challenging, exciting and entertaining like any other extreme sport that is included in the Olympics but how it can’t be included when there are boring and unentertaining sports like curling, beach volleyball and ping pong that are included. This seems to be unfair and makes no sense to me. Surfing should be an Olympic sport due to the fact that it has all the proper qualifications needed to become one.
When you look at the reasons why it hasn’t been added to the Olympics it’s quite annoying and frustrating especially to the people from the surfing community because the reasons why can now be solved easily with our advanced technology and immense amount of support. “Surfing has been around for more than a hundred years and has been trying to become an Olympic Sport since then. ‘Duke’ Kahanamoku the ambassador of ‘Aloha and Surfing to the world’ was the first person that developed his passion for surfing into a committee. This committee would soon try push the sport into becoming an Olympic event.” (Herrera).
However one of the reasons why was because many people from the surfing community were saying that surfing isn’t a sport it’s a way of life. Yet if you think about it from a logical standpoint, then you can definitely classify surfing as an amazing and challenging support. It’s something that requires a lot of practice, training and commitment just like any other serious and legitimate sport. So to solve that problem all that has to be done is that the people from the surfing society must be told that yes, it may be a way of life but it is also definitely a sport. The second reason is that some people would argue that surfing is not famous enough. But that’s not true at all. Due to social media and every other thing people watch surfing has become the most popular and well known sport around the world. It’s become so famous that people are taking advantage of its popularity to gain massive amounts of money from it. “While many surfers are often ambivalent about the athletic aspects of surfing, preferring to cast wave riding as a purely lifestyle or “artistic” endeavor, the fact is that surfers are athletes. Competitive surfing requires a level of fitness and athleticism that rivals any sport.” (Aguerre and Dedina).
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By competing in the Olympics amazingly talented and successful competitive surfers such as Kelly Slater, Joel Parkinson, Jeremy Flores, Mick Fanning and Stephanie Gilmore would light up Olympic venues and become national and international heroes. Something else I shouldn’t forget to mention is that surfing legend and pioneer “Duke Kahanamoku was a five-time Olympic swimming medalist”. (Myers).
The Olympics would also benefit surfers in countries such as Mexico, Indonesia, Ireland, Morocco and the Dominican Republic who have only recently began to compete internationally. “Their own countries would give surfer athletes more attention and resources and more importantly help to solidify the conservation of the waves and beaches that make surfing possible.” (SunDanceBeach).
Fernando Aguerre is the president of the International Surfing Association which is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the World Governing Authority for surfing. And he says “Olympic Surfing would be a strong push for a better understanding and protection of the oceans, their reefs and the beaches that border them,” (Aguerre).
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Another complication would be that the ocean is too unpredictable and it would be unfair for the competitors not to have an equal playing field. The solution would be a wave pool. Therefore, the playing field would be level. Every wave is the same. There would be no worries about forecasting good swell. Every surfer has the same opportunity. Every drop, every wave the same. Cameras, lights, sponsors, logos, glittering LCD scoreboards all blazing. How is it different from snowboarding? Heck, how is surfing less of a sport than figure skating? But think about it. It’s a graceful, athletic expression that is totally outstanding and unmatched by other sports. Both are acrobatic tests of balance and style. Think about it, completing the most radical and high risk maneuvers with the most control and speed wins. That could be gymnastics or figure skating or snowboarding or whatever. Surfing sticklers hate having to share surfing with the rest of the world.
Why else should it be an Olympic Sport? Well surfing should be in the Olympics because it is a very unique sport. It involves smooth, lightheartedness and strategy. In the Olympics, a wave pool would be perfectly fair so judging would be based on the same criteria for all surfers, including wave conditions, time period, and number of rides. Luck in detecting the biggest and best waves would not factor into the competition. Many surfers have won Olympic medals for swimming, even though they power through so fast because of the swimming practice they have gained from surfing. These swimming surfers could show their true abilities if they could also win medals in competitive surfing. For example, “Duke Kahanamoku, one of the first pioneers of surfing, went to the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden with the American team, and broke the record for the one hundred-yard freestyle, winning the gold medal.” (Herrera).
When it was time for the 1920 games at Antwerp, Belgium, Duke was 30 and seemed too old to go compete for the American team. But he whipped himself into better shape and broke his previous world record in the 100 meter sprint with a time of 60.4 seconds. (Dedina).
Because he was a surfer he had the confidence and strength to believe in himself and prove everyone wrong. Joining the surfing lifestyle can change you and your life for the better. It quite a significant and beneficial sport that its surprising that it’s taken so long for the Olympic panel to finally take surfing seriously and actually consider having it added to the Olympics. I think the reason it’s not one yet is because people do not take surfers seriously. Most of the people who run the Olympics recall that ice skate or the high jump are real sports, a large number of people would agree that surfing is more of a sport than both of them and more than a few of the other insignificant sports involved in the Olympics.
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Aguerre, Fernando. “Statement from the ISA President.” International Surfing Association Statement from the ISA President Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2013.
Myers, Nathan. “SURFING Magazine.” SURFING Magazine RSS. N.p., 28 July 2012. Web. 13 Nov. 2013.
Herrera, Justin. “Why Surfing Should be an Olympic Sport.” – Just another Edublogs.org site. N.p., 4 Mar. 2012. Web. 14 Nov. 2013.
