Surfboarding Where To Begin

By Daniel Thomas

Some people think that surfing is a great lifestyle that will allow a surfer to be exposed to members of the opposite sex on a daily basis. Since most women think that surfers are very alluring, most surfers will tend to get very prepared to surf because one wrong move could make them embarrass themselves to women who sit in the sand and watch them perform tricks all day.

If you are a beginner and not sure where to start when getting a surfboard, try and get one that is the same height as you are. Make sure you can afford it, and just use it for practice, as you start surfing more you will make more surfer friends more experienced then you, ask questions to learn more about board types and such.

The surfer that is just starting out, will quickly catch on to the terms that surfers commonly use. This is more than just a dialect, more aimed towards the types of moves that you can do on a surfboard, for example many people already know what the surf term hang ten is.

When it comes to style there are many choices a surfer can make. The clothes that they wear, the kind of surfboard that they use, long board or short board, along with many other types of apparel that can be worn in the wetsuit.

Then there are those surfers that do not care what kind of gear they use, and just do it for the love of the sport. They just want to get in the water in a hurry, purchasing the cheapest board they can get and once they get in the water they see that it is too hard to use.

The surfboard could have been bought used, the reason that it was so cheap in the first place and could have some cracks in it. When this happens water gets into the board and messes everything up. This is a common problem when so called high quality surfboards are sold dirt cheap.

Another factor that comes into play is if the previous owner kept up the maintenance of the surfboard. Waxing a surfboard before every use if very critical, if you do not wax before every use your feet will not stay on the board right, you will be falling off looking stupid.

If you are just getting on the board in the water for the first time, you should practice letting the wave take you in first. There is a lot of paddling involved, once you have this down work on standing up on the board. Practice makes perfect, and with enough of it you could be riding a wave back to the beach in less than a week.

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