Beginner surfers progress from foam to real waves and move from beginner to intermediate status. This is an exciting time for beginners because this is when they feel they are entering the big leagues. If beginners have mastered the fundamentals of catching foam waves and riding them to the beach, the transition is not difficult….
Learning to surf the short board requires consistent practice and patience. Surfing is a slow progressing experience. Progress requires expert practice, physical development, learning techniques, and courage. Beginners should start on a high volume soft top riding foam waves. They need to learn the exacting techniques that will be required on bigger waves and then…
Families learn to surf together in Oceanside for a great way to enjoy a vacation and have an activity everyone can join. The great thing about surfing is it is an outdoor exercise activity everyone can do in the same place. No one gets left behind. Families begin in shallow water riding foam waves that…
Learning to surf in Oceanside is a great experience. The best way to start is with a surf lesson. The surf lesson teaches the fundamentals so that one can practice on their own. Developing bad habits results in either not being able to pop up on the surfboard or not being able to ride. Surfing…
Oceanside surf lessons for groups leads to great fun and learning for everyone. I only place people together who know each other which includes families, friends, and organizations. Groups are up to six people at a time to maximize learning and fun. Everyone loves to see how other people are doing. All lessons begin with…
Beginners surf on high volume boards to make learning the fundamentals of surfing easier. Beginners should surf on boards bigger than they would use once they are experienced. Like flying an airplane, an aspiring pilot would start with a small plane to learn the fundamentals of instruments and take offs. As his experience grows, he…
Overweight people can surf. People learn that size is not necessarily as big a problem as the time they spent not exercising. Surfing is physically very demanding and a full body sport. Surfing requires upper body strength, leg strength, core strength, flexibility, and stamina. Surfers may talk about power to weight ratio as the strength…
Obese people train to surf through a program of nutrition and exercise. Surfing is a physically demanding full body sport. The main problem beginners surfers have that are overweight is conditioning. Surfing requires upper body strength, leg strength, core strength, and stamina. People that put on weight are often not exercising. This is more of…
Are you in surfing shape? People don’t really understand what the physical demands are for surfing. They see experts in the movies that make surfing look easy and decide they want to give it a try. That’s good. What people learn in their surf lessons is there is more than meets the eye. Surfing is…
Many people wonder if being overweight is a problem for surfing. What is more interesting is that being overweight is a symptom and not a cause of the difficulty in surfing. The problem is why someone became overweight. People can become overweight because they eat more calories than they burn and that is a measure…