Aussie surfing history Part 2

Written by MC and ASP

Bombora: a definitive history of surfing in Australia

How good was Part 1? Get to your couch again this Thursday night as episode 2 of Bombora: The Story of Australian Surfinghits the screen. WATCH VIDEO TRAILER

According to ASP, this definitive history of surfing in Australia is a two-part series which follows the rise of surfing and its culture in Australia, using archival footage and classic Australian music to illustrate its growing importance in Australian society in the 20th century and beyond.

It tracks the development right from bodysurfing, to the first boards and Duke Kahanamoku's 1914 visit which boosted surfing's popularity, and looks at international legends such as Midget Farrelly, Nat Young and seven-time world champion Layne Beachley, along with global surfwear brands.

Bombora sees interviews with a host of notable surfing personalities such as our first surf champion Isabel Letham, author and surfer Tim Winton, legendary surfboard shaper Bob McTavish, Rip Curl founder Doug Warbrick and former world champion surfers Barton Lynch and Wayne Rabbit Bartholomew, and examines the rise of female surfers and the explosion of Australian labels including Billabong, Rip Curl and Quiksilver.

What you missed on Thursday 26 March, 8:30pm on ABC1

"Global surfing culture is a mix of wildness, grace and cool that is utterly Australian, but how did a nation of people, who mostly couldn't swim, turn a Polynesian pastime into a national obsession and international cultural force? Episode one looks at the early years of Australian surf history from 1830 to 1964."

Episode 2 airs the folowing week, Thursday 2 April, 8:30pm on ABC1

"In the early days of Australia's surf history, young people found a place to live out their dreams of innocence and freedom in the surf, but it wasn't to last. Episode two looks at the later years of Australian surf history from 1967 to the present."