Marine plywood board from an old fishing boat, about 1965. This type of boards receive the name of Pana, they are similar to the paipos used by the Hawaiians. They were small pieces of wood that made it possible to ride the small waves of lesser force breaking on the shore. It is known that this activity was already practiced by fishermen and locals even before the arrival of surfing as such on our shores. Surfing, in a similar way on pieces of tree trunks, has been observed around the West African coast in countries such as Ghana or Senegal even 100 years before it was noticed by Thomas Cook in 1778.