Surf’s Up, Eh?
Posted on August 27, 2008
Filed Under News, Weird. Wacky. Wild. | By Zack Barangan
Hockey, plaid shirts, and….surfing? No, seriously. Apparently Canadians are nuts about surfing. So deep is our Great White Neighbor’s love for surfing that North Island College in Vancouver, B.C. is readying a two-year surf studies program, the first of its kind in North America.
The program’s creator, Barbie Mayor, one of Canada’s top surfing judges, says the program will be designed to prepare students to teach lessons and manage surf shops, as well as other surfing-based job opportunities. The market for surfing has never been so ripe, with the surf biz accounting for a cool $300 mill in Canada during 2007.
But would-be slackers, beware–officials say that the program will be academically challenging. Traditional business courses, surfboard designing, and in-water training are all part of the curriculum. As well as hanging out at the beach. So uh, y’know be prepared to STUDY HARD.
This is still seriously blowing my mind, until today I didn’t know Canadians knew what surfing was, aside from something Swayze taught Keanu Reeves how to do in Point Break.
(Source: The National Post)
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