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 SurfingSubscribe to view
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