Learning How to Surf the Long Board is a faster process than learning how to surf a short board. Beginners start with a soft top surf board which is a high volume board (length x width x thickness). A long board is also a high volume board. The step from soft top to long board…
Beginner Surfers Learn the Basics so they can progress to become advanced surfers. The basics learned as a beginner are the same techniques used for advanced surfing. What surfers add as they progress are strength, courage, and more techniques. Surfing is difficult to learn for many because there is a bottom level of fitness required…
Beginner surfers are surprised by the demands of surfing and are quickly asking How Surfers Lose Weight and Build Strength. The pro surfers spend as much time cross training out of the water as catching waves. The advantage of lean in surfing is that the short board is easier to paddle if it is not…
There are at least 3 Ways Short Board Surfers Catch Waves. Once you become an advanced surfer your enjoyment and focus becomes about catching waves and improving your maneuvers. You think about waves and you think about catching the best waves of your life. Most competitors say the most crucial part is catching and dropping…
The beginner wants to learn how to Move from Surfing Foam Waves to Real Waves. It is a a three step process of advancement. Sometimes my students do it all in one lesson. The first step begins in the dry land lesson. Students learn the sequence for a beginner pop up. I give students a…
Beginners learn to surf on soft top high volume surf boards. If they progress to hard boards they can make a choice and often wonder Why to Select Short Board Surfing vs Long Boards. It is true that most good surfers can surf both and many do. The short board is an aggressive board for…
Surfers for both foam and real haves have to understand The Timing Paddling for Surf Waves. The whole motion for catching waves is timing and rhythm. The fundamentals become muscle memory and catching waves becomes a dance in which the surfer doesn’t have to think. The surfer observes and feels the wave. He knows how…
Surfing is the most demanding physical sport most people will because it has an entry level of fitness necessary. Beginner Surfers Get Fit to Surf with some good practices. Surfing requires strength, flexibility, and aerobic fitness. Exercises for surfing can be surf specific but they would help any recreational endeavor. First the surfer needs upper…