Hi! I’ve been surfing for 20 years. Grew up surfing in Florida, lived in Huntington Beach for a few years, surf snapper rocks in Australia, been to Indonesia twice surfing at lakey peak in sumbawa, and uluwatu.
What questions do you have as a beginner surfer? AMA.
I'm the guy on the left (from the camera's perspective). We both saw the wave around the same time, and I thought he was just going to go left. When I caught the wave, I honestly thought that he missed it, and didn't know he was behind me until he yelled at me (at which point I just left the wave). He got really mad at me, kept lecturing me, and then proceeded to stick around for another hour (without catching any waves), pointing at me while talking to his buddies, etc.
I really think he could've just caught it earlier and gone left, and I was in the right spot to catch on to go right. Did I drop in? And how bad of a drip in is this?
Hi everyone I need help, today I went surfing for the first time after months ad I got a question, where you put your car key because the renting structure can't keep them.
So what you do with them ?
Condition wasnt great but still a fun sesh. Feel free to critique and advice 🤙
Edit: also first attempt at a barrelish 😂
I’m almost 40 and moving to San Diego. is this a dumb idea? I have lived in WI my whole life and I hate the cold and love the ocean and surfing 🏄♀️
380 with bag/ leash but no fins. Guys at the board shop said she's a keeper!!
Hi all,
I apologize if this is too similar to my previous thread. I will be surfing at Rockaway, Sandy Hook, and Long Island in the summer, so most of the waves will be 1-2 feet. I weigh 210 lbs, so I know I need a bigger board. Ideally, I would get a 9-10 foot board, but I found a good deal on an 8 foot board.
Tl;dr Will an 8 foot board be big enough for a 210 lb beginner riding small waves?
Hi, I’ve been trying to put into practice the pet the cat and throw it away with your backhand, first time it really clicked for me. Felt a lot more awesome than it looks lol. Any feedback to improve that top turn? Looking back i can see i didn’t reach my hand back far enough.
Thanks!
Edit: im on the wave closest to shore on the forefront.
I know that I‘m standing too far at the front of the board with both feet, but honestly I don‘t really know how to fix it.
Any suggestions?
TL;DR: BreakFinder's trip planner takes your home airport and shows every surf destination with good waves in the next 14 days, ranked by forecast score and flight price. One search, zero cross-referencing.
You know the routine. It's Tuesday evening. You have a free weekend coming up. You open Magicseaweed ;) for Portugal, then France, then Morocco. You open Google Flights for each destination. You flip back and forth trying to remember whether Saturday or Sunday had better swell at Supertubos while simultaneously checking if the Saturday flight to Lisbon was €89 or €220. By the time you've compared five destinations across two weekends you have 14 tabs open, a headache, and no booking.
I built the BreakFinder trip planner to kill this workflow dead.
I've been surfing for two years on a hybrid 9'0 longboard (three fins). I already know how to catch waves and pumping down the line.
Should I stick with the longboard until I learn how to perform things like bottom turn, turns, snaps?
Okay, so I've been attempting this surfing thing for collectively about 25-30 1/1.5/2 hour sessions for a couple years now. I've maybe "surfed" 2 waves...maybe. On those I have stood up at the end of the wave having not much power and glided a bit before falling off the back of the wave. I've tried surfing in lots of conditions. I am currently on an 8' wave storm and am 5'4" 120lbs soaking wet. I can catch waves. I have taken multiple lessons. For the life of me, I cannot stay up. I fall forward, backward and to either side. I have worked on my foot placement, pop up style, staying lower/higher, and looking down the wave/where im going, etc. I feel doomed. I am becoming convinced that no one has taken this long to figure it out in the history of the sport. I want it. I don't want to give up, but I literally brokedown balling the other day after immediately wiping out after catching 3 good waves in a row. Crying is not something I do unless I am grieving a serious loss. Has anyone else pushed through a block like this?
Shaka my dudes and dudettes 🤙🏼
Need some advice from the community to help my progression with surfing ze bigger waves. Getting better at popping up and on wave movement but my biggest blocker is my duck dive.
I am good with anything between 1-3.5/4M but as soon as it starts to get bigger I freeze and almost have a lag glitch where I would usually super responsive and quick to go under.
Secondly when I get it right I’m struggling to get under the turbulence of the wave, especially if it’s a bigger set wave that comes rolling in right at the end of a set like a kamikaze pilot out for your life at the point of maximum shoulder burn and minimum will to live.
I mainly surf a beach break that has a looooong paddle out, especially on the bigger days. Any tips tricks or exercises I can use to improve my duck diving on bigger waves?
Or do I just need to stop being a bitch?
I noticed when I’ve been going for more curled barrel-y waves I get tossed off and it feels like the board isn’t fitting in the wave but can’t really tell without video. I’m very comfy surfing with this 7’6 fun shape but it isn’t working out for me when the waves start to curl. I have a 5’11 Dwart that I never take out because I’m not sure what to on it once I’m on the wave. I surfed with it once in CA and went flying on this wave, it was super fast which was fun but I was kinda lost once I was up and riding on it. Like can I just cruise down the face on a board that short or do I have to start doing turns, which I’m not that adept at yet?
The waves where I live are usually kind of shit so when it’s decent, I never want to waste time with a board I’m not comfortable on yet.
I’ve wanted to learn how to surf since I was a little girl, (24 now) a bit scared of the ocean lol (scared of currents, not the animals). But I’m still really wanting to try it out! Any recommendations on lessons? Thanks :)
Heya, landlocked surfer here with a wavepool in 3hr driving distance. I like it, but from time to time I struggle LOTS with the takeoff and mess up whole sessions. Then other sessions I never fall. Maybe anyone has a good tip? Except more angle etc. I see other guys takeoff super chill, relaxed, and I just try not to fall. Afterwards I am more or less comfortable as soon as I find my position on the board.
Also please help me on everything what follows, why is my position on the board so weird and wobbly and how to be a good surfer in general. Thanks
Since Life got in the way—It took me 5 years now to finally get back to YouTube and making Surfskate Tutorials. But I'm finally back and having tons of fun making these videos 🤙🏼
Please roast me and let me know what I might've missed or what could be improved.
In this video I'm going to share three very common mistakes when it comes to stance on the surfskate. They might feel completely natural on the board — but won't translate into good skill progression and unfortunately are a killer in the ocean on your surfboard as well (if you care about this at all).
I'll show you what they are, how to spot them in yourself, and how to fix them.
I am in bali, and day after tomorrow i have my basic surfing session. I don’t know swimming and i informed my surfing coach about it. He said it’s fine lot of people do it who can’t swim.
I don’t wanna make any dumb choices , so i want to know the community’s opinion.
It wasn’t a big day, but it was low tide and the wave was kind of slabbing a bit on the reef. I’m trying to learn how to make late takeoffs, so I’m putting myself in the takeoff zone. I was paddling for a wave and it started to crumble and stack up underneath me. A moment’s hesitation and I decided to let the wave go last second, so I slid off my board into the wave and I do this sort of front summersault in the wave’s lip as it breaks, basically getting sucked over the falls, but in a controlled manner so my feet end up forward and I’m not going head-first into the reef.
Any who, somehow my board flipped and we came together, with the primary force being a fin strike to my armpit. I’m sure if I didn’t have a wetsuit on, I would have a large gash, at the bottom of this bruise, sort of horizontal in the picture, just above my hairy pit.
My question, for any anatomy nerds out there is: how close did I come to cutting a very important vein or artery in my left arm? The bruising has spread all the way down my tricep now, as you can see.
My left arm was nearly useless after this happened. I couldn’t paddle very well without major pain. I caught two more waves and paddled in.
Am I lucky to be alive?
My friend (he’s a surfer and works in IT) built a simple app with AI surf camera. You leave your phone on the beach (tripod or just something stable), go surf, and the camera uses AI to detect surfers catching waves. When it sees someone take off, it zooms in, records the ride, and later processes the clip - cropped, cleaned up, ready to share. So instead of a 2h video, you get short clips of actual rides.
Honestly, it feels like this could be really useful for beginners/intermediates who want to see what they’re actually doing and improve faster.
The obvious downside is… yeah, you’re leaving your phone on the beach😅 so you’d probably want someone keeping an eye on it, or set it up somewhere safe.
Curious what you think — would you actually use something like this for your sessions?