[St. Agnes, England, September 6. Image via Getty.]
ST AGNES, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 06: Two belly boarders chat as they wait to take part in the World Belly Boarding Championships at Chapel Porth on September 6 2009 near St Agnes, England. Over a hundred surfers of all ages - some from as far away as New York, Denmark and Australia - all on traditional wooden belly boards, gathered for the annual charity event organised for the National Trust and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The event was started in 2002 as a celebration of how surfing began in Britain more than a century ago and because since the 1920s Cornwall has become the focus for surfing in the UK. Originally surfers used the wooden 'belly boards' on which they laid down and it was only later that they started standing up, with Cornwall having the first visual evidence of that, in 1929. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)