You’ve been looking at Baywatch’s remake and wondered if surfing was for you?
You wouldn’t mind for Yasmine Bleeth or David Charvet to give you the mouth-to-mouth breathing.
But you figured that you’d have more fun surfing over the waves than under them.
If you wish to learn more about what to consider before jumping both feet ahead with this expensive hobby, assume reading this article.
Let see what’s required from you to have fun with the sport quickly!
Learning To Surf Is Difficult
Mastery of surfing doesn’t come easy, don’t expect surfing to be like other sports that you can learn in a short matter of hours or days, we are talking about daily practice for years.
Of course, with the right equipment and the essential preparation, you’ll be able to ride your board for a few moments here and there.
But realistically, for you to constantly catch waves and depend on them smoothly, you’ll have to commit a year or two before you become a competent surfer.
It doesn’t mean that you won’t have fun through your learning process. Knowing this will instead keep you on the right track, pursuing your quest to mastery despite your hardship and discouragement.
Required skills, you’ll have to develop different skills for you to blend with your board. Surfing is about:
- Determination: Surfing is not like riding a Rolls Royce on a smooth road. Being hit and constantly punched from the cold waves can seriously test your motivation.
- Balance: This ability is key to surfing. Not only are you required to stand on a small surface, but you also must constantly adjust to an ever-changing ground plane.
- Flexibility: The constant jerking over your board and the different postures you take as you get up on the board requires minimal levels of flexibility.
- Strength: Who would have guessed that your upper body muscles were the most solicited. Paddling the water and pushing yourself up on the board requires great strength from these muscles.
- Endurance: The constant falling, recovering, and the paddling cycle is excruciating. Great stamina and endurance will help you better enjoy the sport.
Where to start? there are a few surfing tips and trick that will help you improve quicker.
These basic surfing tips should make it easier for you and help you live a more enjoyable adventure.
Practice your equilibrium
You don’t need to be on your surfboard to practice this. Here are some ideas that will improve your equilibrium:
- Stand on one leg. Then switch legs.
- Stand on a Pogo Ball.
- Stand on board centered over a tennis ball.
Warm-up on the beach
Because your body will be rocked right and left on the board, you want to prepare your muscles to stretch back and forth.
Warm-ups are essential when flexibility is required in a sport.
Choose the right board
Many surfs coach will tell you that you should aim for a six-to-eight-foot longboard.
This type of board will make it easier for beginners to surf a few waves on their first attempts. Shortboards are used more frequently by advanced and expert surfers.
They will require more strength from you and will be harder to control.
There you go!
Like anything in life, you won’t turn into an expert surfer overnight.
But by being persistent, passionate, and by keeping in mind the essential tips we provided, you’ll align yourself with this fantastic sport that may change your life forever.
I’m looking at you!
Here are my best surfing blog posts
- Beginner to Intermediate Surfer Advice (Best one)