How to Surf the Short Board
How to Surf the Short Board is a quest many new beginner surfers have. They were attracted to surfing because they saw experts in the movies, it seems fun, and at the ocean its a great thing to do.
Surfing the short board is a quest. Its an adventure. It is like learning to climb mountains. You have to learn a little at a time and build skills. You have to develop courage which comes from building competence.
Starting as a Beginner
The beginner starts on a soft top catching foam waves. He learns the timing of watching the wave approach and then rolling over on the surfboard and paddling hard. He then executes the correct pop up and rides to the beach.
After learning these basics correctly, he can paddle out to catch bigger foam waves and then small real waves. Learning to ride small waves down the face is a fun step. Then the surfer starts catching bigger ones. 3′ to 4′ is adequate to start practicing the next skills.
The surfer learns to bottom turn into the pocket. Then he learns to accelerate by pushing the nose of the board up and down the face with his front foot. Then he learns the cut back which will take him back to the power of the wave as it fizzles.
Moving to the Hard Board
After learning all these techniques, it is a good time to consider a hard board. If the surfer does not go to the water often, he might enjoy staying with the soft top. The soft top is easier to paddle and moving to lower volume boards makes paddling harder and sessions shorter.
The best hard board for a start is called the fun board. It is 7’6″ long. It is easy to paddle and adapting all the learned skills to this board are not difficult. Then slowly the surfer can start moving shorter 6″ at a time. Each move shorter is going to have challenges.
The surfer enters short board technically at 6’10”. The point of moving shorter is to be more maneuverable. If the surfer does not need to do lots of tricks, there is no reason to keep moving shorter. All the hard boards will ride big waves up to 10′.
The point is to keep the venture fun and not move too fast to shorter boards.
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