Many beginner surfers want to know How Soon Can Surfers Ride Bigger Waves. I often have new students who want to go out further in the surf and they have not always mastered the fundamentals of surfing in small foam waves.
The problems of missing fundamentals become exaggerated in bigger surf. Bigger waves are heavier and move faster. When they crash, they deliver more punishment. Getting worked is not fun and can be discouraging. Surfing is more fun when each step is taken at the right time.
Courage is Needed to Ride Bigger Waves
Nonetheless, more courage is needed for each advance and the surfer has more confidence if he has learned the steps. Still, each advance will require more skill and judgment and the crashes will be bigger. A surfer has to learn to laugh off the bad falls or he might not want to go out again.
The beginner learns to ride foam waves to the beach without falling off the surfboard. Then he can paddle out through the foam to ride bigger foam waves. After testing his skills, he should start looking for small real waves. On sandbar beaches, they often reform on the inside smaller than they are on the outside where the advanced surfers sit.
Progressing from Foam to Real Waves
Once a surfer has learned to ride small waves, he can paddle out to ride bigger real waves. Surfers often start riding the corners instead of riding the face. The corners form after the main part of the wave has broken and then it is rolling out in one direction. The surfer cannot catch this pocket if someone is already riding it. Surfer etiquette. The surfer paddles parallel to the pocket knowing it is getting constantly closer to the beach. He is at a 45 degree angle to the beach and lets the pocket roll under the surfboard.
On sand bar beaches where waves tend to be steep and close out, beginners on soft top boards will have problems with pearling. They need to catch the faces and angle towards the pocket immediately. On reefs, waves tend to break slower and soft tops have an easy time catching these waves down the face. Also steep waves break quick and need a fast pop up.
All this is learned as the surfer progresses and he should be patient to learn each step and not get over his head before he has the necessary skills to make it fun. After all, its all about the fun.
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