"The moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social clas ..."
"The moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social clas ..."
Australian Beach Cultures The History of Sun, Sand and Surf (Sport in the Global Society) by DouglasBooth Hardcover, 284 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-7146-5167-5, ISBN: 0-7146-5167-2
"Under his tutelage, Nigel Oxendew and Edward, Prince of Wales learnt to surf
during visits to Waikiki in 1919 and 1920, respectively, although surfing did not
spread to Britain until the 1950s (Hannah Sturrock [ed.], The Stormrider Guide
Europe [London: Low Pressure, 2nd edn, 1995], p. 52). For further details of the
spread of surfing to individual European countries see Sturrock, Stormrider Guide
Europe. Dan Cisco, Hawai 'i Sports ..."