Chadd Boulter Turns to Centuries-Old Sport of Surfing

Chadd Boulter did not naturally gravitate toward the common sport of those born in Florida, bordered on three sides by hundreds of miles of ocean coast where surfing is akin to breathing for most young residents. Boulter, instead, rode his first skateboard at age 4 and was hooked. Boulter pursued skateboarding to professionalism, turning pro at age 18. He initially turned to snowboarding to keep his skills sharp, when not near skate terrain parks or other facilities to train. Snowboarding became another skillset for Boulter, who turned snowboarding pro at age 21. Upon returning to Jupiter, Florida where he was born, Boulter began to surf the waves, recognizing that both snowboarding and surfing are surface contact sports, as opposed to skateboarding, where the board does not touch the surface it moves on.

Chadd Boulter can also try out tow-in surfing where a motorized water vehicle tows the surfer into a wave front, paddle boarding, sea kayaking, kite surfing and windsurfing, and wakesurfing the wake of a boat. These and other versions of surfing have evolved from ancient Polynesian culture, but the first observation by Europeans of the sport was likely by British explorers at Tahiti in the South Pacific. A Lieutenant James King wrote about the art and recreation of surfing while in Hawaii completing the post-mortem journals of Captain James Cook in 1779. In actuality, surf riding on planks and canoe hulls was happening in Samoa and Tonga over a thousand years before surfing by Hawaiians and eastern Polynesians. Many South Seas natives, where surfing originated, feel that riding the wave with the surfer’s own body is the purest form of the sport.

Surfing requires a variety of muscle skills, many of the same types of muscles used by Chadd Boulter in both skateboarding and snowboarding. Paddling strength, positioning for a wave, timing and balance are all required. In addition to paddling strength, there must be a mastery of the techniques required to break through waves, such as duck diving and the eskimo roll. To position oneself to surf one needs experience to predict the set of waves and where they will break, and to get the exact position to ride the wave, preferred positioning, requires ability to read each waves features as much by feel and instinct as by observation. Balance on the surfboard requires balance training exercises to give would be surfers the experience of standing on a surfboard and what muscles are required to maintain a steady stance as the wave moves beneath the board.

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Chadd Boulter has excelled in every sport that he has tried his hand at, turning professional as a skateboarder at the age of 18.