Arthur G. Pauli is from Trostberg, Bavaria and is the pioneer of river surfing. He was a good swimmer & was a water sports aficionado. After the terrors brought by World War II, the Golden Age of Surfing occurred in the 1950s, when individuals enjoyed having vacations. Since the nearest ocean was 1000 km away, Pauli thought of the Alz River which was behind their family house. In the summer of 1965, Arthur G. Pauli built his first surfboard. The length of the surfboard was 2,200 meters. It was sourced from wooden frames and plywood & protected with glass and polyester resin. There were two hooks on both side of the nose to facilitate the binding of a tow rope that would then be attached to a bridge or tree over the river. Amid the first test rides, Pauli discovered that hooking the board to a high tree made the long and narrow board stand too high that made it impossible to navigate. He then tried freeing the board and holding the rope to surf. Not long after going back and forth in inclined position, Pauli managed to stand up and do a “slalom-like” gliding in standing upright position. …show more content…
Pauli wanted to try ocean surfing. To do this, he had to manufacture a longer, more drawn-out board to increase buoyancy. A cousin from California sent him a copy of the SURFER magazine and sought contact with a shaper of a big California surfboard brand. After communicating through letters, Arthur Pauli learned the essentials of surfboard building and ocean wave surfing. After being told that surfboards were built with polyurethane foam, he created the first foam-and-resin-board, perhaps the first longboard made in