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This Is Your Life | Duke Kahanamoku (Father of Surfing)

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ส.ค. 2024
  • 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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  • @jeremiahjace9844
    @jeremiahjace9844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    he is my great grandpa

    • @jeremiahjace9844
      @jeremiahjace9844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pure Hawaiian

    • @jeremiahjace9844
      @jeremiahjace9844 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@damoab1909 Kinda

    • @jonniesantos
      @jonniesantos ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No disrespect intended… I didn’t know he and Nadine had any children…

    • @GamelanSinarSurya
      @GamelanSinarSurya ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @chchedda
      @chchedda ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@jeremiahjace9844 ham and pineapple?

  • @wildsmiley
    @wildsmiley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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.

    • @surfertoday
      @surfertoday  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No doubt about that. We often say we only have two idols: Winston Churchill and Duke Kahanamoku. 😉

  • @zacharysincennes1950
    @zacharysincennes1950 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I actually thought this was so fucking dis graceful, this man did not even get one chance to talk all program.

  • @gregorymceaddy8884
    @gregorymceaddy8884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Duke was ..he loved...he was always first in the lineup

  • @mariovelardehere
    @mariovelardehere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Duke is an AMAZING man.
    The Father of Surfing.

    • @surfertoday
      @surfertoday  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He is one of our three idols. 🙏

  • @gregorymceaddy8884
    @gregorymceaddy8884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Imagine seeing Johnny & Duke on your beach as lifeguards...

  • @turdferguson2982
    @turdferguson2982 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Don't talk about it, keep it in your heart."

  • @kristofferwash1
    @kristofferwash1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ralph Edwards is just a goddamned professional. Flawless.

  • @tomsullivanchannel
    @tomsullivanchannel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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

  • @NYricanMinded
    @NYricanMinded ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So very handsome was The Duke.

  • @flee78
    @flee78 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Legend!

  • @Silva007ish
    @Silva007ish ปีที่แล้ว

    He is the man!

  • @Pittie21
    @Pittie21 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Duke 🤙❤

  • @BiltsOne
    @BiltsOne 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    #GOAT #DUKE

    • @surfertoday
      @surfertoday  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      An idol for us.

    • @BiltsOne
      @BiltsOne 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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.

    • @surfertoday
      @surfertoday  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BiltsOne He was probably the last "professional" surfer to ride waves for the pleasure of doing it, and not for the money.

  • @Drew__Films
    @Drew__Films 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Duke is literately taller than Ralph Edwards sitting down 😂

  • @rascalme9754
    @rascalme9754 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @Polepfor
    @Polepfor 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Johnny Weissmiller makes an appearance here.

  • @pizzaboy7541
    @pizzaboy7541 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So much whitewashing and treating him like an object.

    • @tanermishler8564
      @tanermishler8564 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah why does Ralph edwards keep calling him boy like that? It's giving 1950s racism against blacks.

  • @kristofthibaud8491
    @kristofthibaud8491 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did Duke Fight in the Great War?

  • @10OZDuster
    @10OZDuster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    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..

    • @menufrog
      @menufrog 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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.

    • @AMM0beatz
      @AMM0beatz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Duke is native hawaiian

    • @wuwu2079
      @wuwu2079 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Duke was fully native Hawaiian they’re Polynesian

  • @tanermishler8564
    @tanermishler8564 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why does he keep calling duke boy?

  • @MrSudoku
    @MrSudoku 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Two finger ply?

    • @jamiecristal
      @jamiecristal 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fancy toilet paper?

    • @imDezrt
      @imDezrt 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Made me laugh

    • @lanakilahawaii7322
      @lanakilahawaii7322 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He said "two finger poi" It's a style of eating poi, the main staple of the Hawaiians.

  • @gregorymceaddy8884
    @gregorymceaddy8884 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    He liked the boat...go figure

  • @Drew__Films
    @Drew__Films 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    And how are they gonna not capture his reaction when his family walks out.. that director sucks

  • @GamelanSinarSurya
    @GamelanSinarSurya ปีที่แล้ว

    “…the ABDICATION of Queen Lili’uokalani in 1893...” 😖 😢

  • @Drew__Films
    @Drew__Films 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What communist gave this a dislike!?