surfing• And surfing is the most potentsymbol - even stimulus - of that shift.• St Ives, 7 miles away, is an old fishingport, with an artistscommunity, and good surfing.• But superficiality had crept into surfing, too.• He felt he had only come alive when he started surfing.• By the time he left Sydney surfing had taken root in another continent.• For us, surfing is real.• But what is beyond question is that, in the post-contact era, it was Hawaii that colonized other countries with surfing.