Unlike other organized sports, surfing doesn’t have a universal rulebook or referee system that enforces everyone to surf under the same rules (unless you are contest surfing). There is nothing that anyone “has to” understand in order to participate. In football you can’t play unless you understand the rules like offsides, out of bounds, illegal [...]
Archive for the ‘surf tips’ Category
Apr 23 2010
Nov 13 2009
When I was first asked this question it seemed impossible to answer. With so many skills that go into surfing, how could you really claim the most important? Especially considering the many different levels of “surfing.” You have the professionals who surf so ridiculously well that if it wasn’t so beautiful you would [...]
Having a surf rash is nothing new to any surfer. Both experts to the beginners have dealt with some type of surf rash. Some of the most common are found on the neckline of your trusty wetsuit (both old and new ones alike), on your bare stomach when you decide to trunk it and/or on [...]
Sep 30 2009
The ocean here in NorCal is always cold. While the water temperature at Santa Cruz breaks may warm to around 60º F in summer, winter temps can fall below 50 degrees at my usual spots in San Mateo County south of San Francisco. While a hardy few drop the rubber for boardshorts on hot sunny [...]
Surfing, unlike skating and wakeboarding, is not a sport where the conditions are going to be the same day to day. Yeah, the skate park might have water on it from some rain, or the lake might be choppy from some wind. But with surfing, if you don’t have waves, you don’t have surfing. For [...]
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