The Evolution of Surfing to what it is Today. Primitive man used surfing in the fifth century AD to facilitate his fishing capabilities and to enhance his religious experiences: now with more time at their disposal, he uses it for different purposes: challenge and recreation, consequently, as society changed, surfing evolved. Early societies that centered on survival used surfing as a means of spiritual and physical survival. Societies that no longer, as a whole, concerned …showed first 75 words of 719 total…

…showed last 75 words of 719 total…Surfing is now not only a sport, but also business (Quot’d in Brown, ed.). Surfing evolved swiftly to what it is today: from physical and spiritaul necessity, to recreation, then to profession. What will come next? Past and present, surfing adapts to human needs and wants. The thing that will remain the same in surfing despite what the sport becomes is the waves, but as long as society changes, so will surfing. Bibliography none