tandem surfing
While tandem surfing is technically defined as any two people riding the same board at once, it's generally recognized as a particular surfing subgenre involving opposite-sex partners, with the man hoisting the woman into a series of lifts and poses. Pre-20th-century Hawaiians likely practiced some form of two-to-a-board surfing, but tandem riding was more or less created in the 1920s by the touri...
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Tandem surfing, Southern California, early 1960sSubscribe to view
Pete Peterson and Sharon Barker, 1963Subscribe to view
Waikiki tandem surfers, mid-1950sSubscribe to view
Waikiki tandem surfers, 2007. Photo: Carol CunninghamSubscribe to view
Bobby Friedman and Ana Shisler, Pipeline, 1995Subscribe to view

Tandem Surfing

Tandem surfing, Southern California, early 1960s

Pete Peterson and Sharon Barker, 1963

Waikiki tandem surfers, mid-1950s

Waikiki tandem surfers, 2007. Photo: Carol Cunningham

Bobby Friedman and Ana Shisler, Pipeline, 1995