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Originally Posted by Essex
PS - yes the surfing did look 'out of place' - but whose to say that someone hasn't thought of something like this to get down some stairs quickly before? Why do we always think that just because we only invented surfing a while back that no one's thought of using a piece of wood or metal to make it down some stairs fast (and somewhat pecariously!) years before this?
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Polynesian people have been surfing for three or four millenia and more recently surfing was observed by Captain Cook in Taihiti in 1777.