91裸聊视频淟et91裸聊视频檚 go surfing now, everybody91裸聊视频檚 learning how,91裸聊视频� the Beach Boys have been telling us in song since 1962.

And if you haven91裸聊视频檛 started listening by now 91裸聊视频� and you live in California 91裸聊视频� perhaps it91裸聊视频檚 time you did.

On Monday surfing became the official sport of California.

So grab a board, catch a wave and again as the Beach Boys like to say, find yourself, 91裸聊视频渟ittin91裸聊视频� on top of the world.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淚 am stoked that surfing is now California91裸聊视频檚 official sport,91裸聊视频� declared Al Muratsuchi, state assemblyman and a dedicated surfer dude himself, after Gov. Jerry Brown put his signature to the new law Muratsuchi wrote and shepherded through the Legislature.

91裸聊视频淣o other sport represents the California Dream better than surfing 91裸聊视频� riding the waves of opportunity and living in harmony with nature,91裸聊视频� added Muratsuchi, a surfer since high school who represents the city of Torrance, a place not far from the heralded California surf break called Haggerty91裸聊视频檚. (Yes, the one mentioned in the Beach Boys91裸聊视频� song 91裸聊视频淪urfin91裸聊视频� USA.91裸聊视频�)

While the law acknowledges that surfing, like so much other California stuff, actually came from somewhere else 91裸聊视频� in this case Hawaii 91裸聊视频� it also makes the case that California revolutionized the art of shooting the curl and hanging 10.

The Golden State is the heart of the surfboard building industry and the place where the wetsuit was invented, state officials say, and with 1,100 miles (1,770 kilometres) of coastline, it provides a surfer91裸聊视频檚 paradise that Muratsuchi estimates generates more than $6 billion in annual retail sales.

Michael Scott Moore, author of the acclaimed 2010 surfing history 91裸聊视频淪weetness and Blood,91裸聊视频� agrees that although Hawaii is the cradle of surfing, California did play a key role in revolutionizing the sport.

91裸聊视频淢odern surfing was born in Huntington Beach, Malibu, the South Bay, Manhattan, Redondo,91裸聊视频� Moore said, referencing many of the beachfront cities the Beach Boys call out in 91裸聊视频淪urfin USA.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淭hat91裸聊视频檚 where new technologies in surf design got developed,91裸聊视频� continued Moore, an avid surfer himself. 91裸聊视频淲e had a lot of aerospace technicians who were into surfing, and they developed new shapes for surfboards that turned the sport into something of a pop cultural phenomenon.91裸聊视频�

Basically, California builders began making boards safer, lighter, easier to stand on and easier to manoeuvr through the water than the ones the Hawaiians had used for centuries, Moore said. They also added a key feature, the skeg or bottom-of-the-board rudder and, yes, they invented the wetsuit.

Meanwhile, popular 91裸聊视频淏each Party91裸聊视频� movies of the 1960s that starred teen heartthrobs Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon made it look to the rest of the country like one big surf party was going on nonstop in California. The Beach Boys, Dick Dale, Jan and Dean and other popular musicians of the time provided the soundtrack.

91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 part of the California mythology,91裸聊视频� University of Southern California pop culture historian Leo Braudy said. 91裸聊视频淭he idea of someone becoming Californianized, and if you become Californianized then surfing is part of the deal.91裸聊视频�

Indeed, Huntington Beach now calls itself Surf City and is home to the Surfers91裸聊视频� Hall of Fame and the International Surfing Museum. Oceanside has the California Surf Museum. In Redondo Beach, there is a bust of George Freeth, hailed as California91裸聊视频檚 first surfer after he began dazzling local crowds with his wave-riding skills in 1907.

(Freeth actually learned to surf in his native Hawaii, where it91裸聊视频檚 been the official sport since 1998.)

But no matter. Which state lays claims to surfing as its sport doesn91裸聊视频檛 bother surfers all that much, said Moore, who has surfed all over the world.

91裸聊视频淎s long as the waves are good, we don91裸聊视频檛 care,91裸聊视频� he said laughing.

He may be right.

A woman who answered the phone Monday at legendary big-wave rider Titus Kinimaka91裸聊视频檚 surf school in Hanalei, Hawaii, said she91裸聊视频檇 be happy to put a surfer on the phone to discuss the issue.

91裸聊视频淏ut they91裸聊视频檙e all in the water,91裸聊视频� she added.

John Rogers, The Associated Press

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