This Is Your Life | Duke Kahanamoku (Father of Surfing)
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- Опубліковано 21 лют 2017
- Duke Kahanamoku is the star of "This Is Your Life," an American reality documentary series that was broadcasted on NBC television from 1952 to 1961.
NBC TV host Ralph Edwards surprises the "father of modern surfing" and Olympic swimming champion with several of the Hawaiian's friends and relatives.
The episode was aired on February 20, 1957.
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he is my great grandpa
Pure Hawaiian
@@damoab1909 Kinda
No disrespect intended… I didn’t know he and Nadine had any children…
My Tutu used to tell of how she dated your great grandpa Duke Kahanamoku later in life, in the late 1950’s. She said he would pick her up in a big fancy car and they would go out to eat together.
@@jeremiahjace9844 ham and pineapple?
The Father of Modern Surfing.* Surfing existed before Duke was born, but he was far beyond essential in spreading it and the aloha spirit everywhere. Every surfer from Hawaii to USA to Australia to Europe wouldn’t really be doing what they do if it wasn’t for him. His legacy is so massive that Diamond Head itself is dwarfed by his shadow.
No doubt about that. We often say we only have two idols: Winston Churchill and Duke Kahanamoku. 😉
Duke was ..he loved...he was always first in the lineup
Duke is an AMAZING man.
The Father of Surfing.
He is one of our three idols. 🙏
I actually thought this was so fucking dis graceful, this man did not even get one chance to talk all program.
agree.
Ralph Edwards is just a goddamned professional. Flawless.
Imagine seeing Johnny & Duke on your beach as lifeguards...
So very handsome was The Duke.
"Don't talk about it, keep it in your heart."
He is the man!
Legend!
Duke was da man and I love him and his Aloha spirit and he had another surfing and swimming friend, George Freeth, who was lost to the Pandemic of 1919 and his story has faded into time. George Freeth was son of Irish sea captain and part Hawaiian and it was his skin color that allowed him surf when the church had forbidden the Hawaiians to do so. He was able to get Duke in and surfing restarted. George Freeth invented Lifegaurds, the Life Ring and saved countless. It was undoubteddly his willingness to sacrifice and give that expose him to the virus and took one of the srtongest men on the planet at 35.
A century later,
2020, we have a another pandemic and have lost another George.
George Floyd, not from the pandemic but from a system that is broken.
THE LIFE RING is a symbol of hope and in this time all of us need that.
S.O.S.
Sacrifice and giving for the greater good is what all lifegaurds do.
Do your part and "Save Our Souls" with a little sacrifice and willingness to look at life from a different perspective. A new base or bottom with a higher standard needs to be established for the people and the system to have liberty and freedom.
Aloha
Duke 🤙❤
#GOAT #DUKE
An idol for us.
@@surfertoday i got to see a preview of his documentary to be released next year. It was amazing. I cannot wait to see his Legacy comeback to life and remind us of how great he was.
@@BiltsOne He was probably the last "professional" surfer to ride waves for the pleasure of doing it, and not for the money.
Duke is literately taller than Ralph Edwards sitting down 😂
What the This is Your Life show did to Frances Farmer by humiliating her talking about her in such demeaning and heartless ways right to her face on national TV was appalling.
Johnny Weissmiller makes an appearance here.
Did Duke Fight in the Great War?
father of surfing in America is him sure but...the real father of surfing are Polynesians they invented it...capt. cook accounts indicated they[hawaiians/polynesians] were surfing in the South Pacific when he arrived..
In the 1910s Duke travelled the world extensively, and popularised surfing exhibiting his skills in places as far as Australia and New Zealand. No doubt surfing is an ancient Polynesian craft but Duke is the father of modern day surfing.
Duke is native hawaiian
Duke was fully native Hawaiian they’re Polynesian
He liked the boat...go figure
Why does he keep calling duke boy?
Two finger ply?
Fancy toilet paper?
Made me laugh
He said "two finger poi" It's a style of eating poi, the main staple of the Hawaiians.
“…the ABDICATION of Queen Lili’uokalani in 1893...” 😖 😢
So much whitewashing and treating him like an object.
Yeah why does Ralph edwards keep calling him boy like that? It's giving 1950s racism against blacks.
And how are they gonna not capture his reaction when his family walks out.. that director sucks
What communist gave this a dislike!?