i paddle board on my days off.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Paddleboarding participants are propelled by a swimming motion using their arms while lying, kneeling, or standing on a paddleboard or surfboard in the ocean. This article refers to traditional prone or kneeling paddleboarding. A derivative of paddleboarding is stand up paddle surfing and stand up paddleboarding. Paddleboarding is usually performed in the open ocean, with the participant paddling and surfing unbroken swells to cross between islands or journey from one coastal area to another. Champion paddlers can stroke for hours and a race is only a warm-up for well-trained watermen. Ships Artist, John Webber, accompanied Captain James Cook to The Sandwich Islands in 1778, and in the lower left foreground of his 1781 engraving is depicted a Paddleboarder/Surfer Rider. Thomas Edward Blake is credited as the pioneer in paddleboard construction in the early 1930s. While restoring historic Hawaiian boards in 1926 for the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Blake built a replica of the previously ignored \"olo\" surfboard ridden by ancient Hawaiian \"alii\" (kings). He lightened his redwood replica (\"olo\" were traditionally made from \"wiliwili\" wood) by drilling it full of holes, which he then covered, thus creating the first hollow board, which led to creation of the modern paddleboard.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Paddleboarding is a great exercise. It's when you propel yourself on a paddleboard using arms."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow! I've never been but I think it looks like fun. What else can you tell me about paddle boarding?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's usually performed in the open ocean. The participant surfs and paddles unbroken swells to cross between island or travel between coastal areas."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That sounds fun. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yep, you get a good workout. Champion paddlers are able to stroke for hours and races are just warm ups."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting so there are paddle boarding competitions, I always thought it was just done for recreation and fun."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh yes definitely! And the creator of paddleboarding was Thomas Edward Blake."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wonder how he invented it. I wonder if he planned on making it or if it was just a coincidence. Is he still alive?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well Thomas Blake constructed the paddleboard but there was a picture of a paddleboarder in a 1781 painting so it may have been around a lot longer. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hmmm I wonder if Thomas Blake stole the idea and called it his own... I guess we will never know. Anything else interesting about paddle boarding?"}]