Although they may still enter competitions, winning is not the soul surfer's main motive, since they scorn the commercialization of surfing.
to pursue surfing not just as an athletic endeavor or as a sunny day diversion, but to try to glean whatever lessons you can from the practice.
It means being patient, mindful, kind, compassionate, understanding, active, thoughtful, faithful, hopeful, gracious, disciplined and...good.
In 1969 theologian Tom Blake penned an article entitled "Voice of the Wave", which examined the religious elements of surfing.
More recently, the phrase was used as the title of a book about Bethany Hamilton,[2] a young female surfer who continued to surf after her arm was bitten off by a tiger shark.