Month: August 2016

Elegance is Gabby Douglas and the Chrysler 200. Like Gabby Douglas for her second Olympics, the Chrysler 200 has made a comeback. Better than ever, we’d say the two are as good as gold.

 

 

Small, yet mighty, provides the perfect description for 4 foot 8’ inch Olympian and the FIAT that puts the might in mighty. Just like Simone has proven, big things can come in small packages. We think this duo would be a firecracker!

 

Just like the Buick Regal, Kerri Walsh Jennings has been around the block. She knows the playing field and with three gold medals under her belt, she’s very well perfected it.

 

With 21 gold medals in his career in a range of different races, Phelps’ versatility is what makes us believe he could pull off being a ride as flexible as the Jeep Wrangler.

1. Duke Kahanamoku, the “Father of modern surfing”, revitalized surfing on Waikiki beach in the early 1900s.
2. Captain James King wrote the earliest account of surfing known in 1779. He wrote “who had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and smoothly by the seas.”
3. Surfing is nicknamed the ‘sport of kings’ because it was originally reserved for royalty.
4. Among the oldest sports on earth, prehistoric stone carvings in Chan Chan in Peru depict surfers.
5. The amount of female surfers around the world has risen by 300% since 2002.
6. Following WWII the surfboard was revolutionized through materials like styrofoam, fiberglass and resin.
7. In 1928, the first major surf competition took place in Corona del Mar, California.
8. Believe it or not, Plymouth University in the UK offers a Surf Science and Technology degree.
9. Hollywood helped push surfing into popularity with movies like Gidget and The Endless Summer.
10. American Surf Magazine recorded that 66% of surfers think about sharks while riding a wave.
11. You are more likely to die from a falling coconut than to die from a shark attack.
12. The longest ride ever on a single wave was 37 minutes long on a pororoca, a tidal bore wave on the Amazon River.