{"id":187832,"date":"2025-04-16T10:45:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/the-rebellious-history-of-cornwalls-surfing-scene\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:45:38","slug":"the-rebellious-history-of-cornwalls-surfing-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=187832","title":{"rendered":"The rebellious history of Cornwall\u2019s surfing scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tcocdn.com\/tco\/images\/Huck\/10.-Surfers-Against-Sewage-2000-campaign-Photo-%40-Alex-Brown.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Its curator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.falmouth.ac.uk\/staff\/dr-sam-bleakley\">Dr. Sam Bleakley<\/a>, was keen to tell the story of \u201c100 years in 100 boards\u201d, he says. The earliest, he shows me, is a wooden \u201ccoffinboard\u201d, made by local coffin makers in the 1920s \u2013 which was ridden prone (belly down). As the decades progress, the boards get longer and shinier \u2013 as does the sheen of surf\u2019s image. By the \u201960s, headband-wearing wave-riders were grinning from the pages of surf magazines. Vintage posters with slogans like \u201cGet your surf on!\u201d cover the walls. Wetsuits become more skin tight. By the end of the decade, the sport was attracting thousands to the shores of Cornwall, which was becoming what the exhibition dubs the \u201cCalifornia of the UK\u201d. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bleakley, a European longboard champion and senior lecturer in cultural tourism at Falmouth University, was born and bred with the sea. He views <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/topic\/surfing\">surfing<\/a> as a less confrontational way to bring light to some of our most urgent crises: \u201cI like the way that the video clips interlink with the physical objects, to the narrative, to the smells, and the noises, so I really wanted it to be something that was deep enough to celebrate the people who\u2019ve really done special things, but to also plant the seeds to think more sustainably, to be more ethical without being dogmatic,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This tension lies at the heart of surfing \u2013 much of the exhibition celebrates the \u201ccare-free spirit\u201d of surfing, the idea, as Bleakley puts, we need to \u201creconnect with nature\u201d and \u201cgo to the coast and play because we live a busy life\u201d. But it was precisely this free-spirited image that gave the sport its edge \u2013 seen as a lifestyle for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huckmag.com\/article\/dennis-stock-california-trip-photography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Californians<\/a>, barefoot drifters, and countercultural creatives riding against the tide of convention. In the late \u201960s, surfing was banned on some Cornish beaches, thought to attract the \u201cwrong kind of tourist\u201d. \u201cIt\u2019s really important to recognise the tensions that activities create,\u201d says Bleakley. \u201cSome councils banned it because they thought it was bringing a bad element to the town, that it was dangerous. Those tensions led to the more politicised side of surfing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its curator, Dr. Sam Bleakley, was keen to tell the story of \u201c100 years in 100 boards\u201d, he says. 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