WHERE
SHOULD I SURF? |
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| ANSWER:
THE WHITEWATER AWAY FROM OTHER SURFERS:
Head off down the beach away from any
surfers. What you need when you start is whitewater, the wave after
it has already crested and broken, and is rolling in long even white
lines toward the beach, as in the photo below. |
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| WHY
THE WHITEWATER:
Everyone starts in the whitewater. That's
where you practice standing up and keeping your balance. Once this
gets easy for you in the whitewater, then you can go "outside"
to the unbroken waves on the smaller days, like the wave in the background
of the above photo. |
| WHY
AWAY FROM OTHER SURFERS: It's
a safety issue. You're going to find that moving the board around
the way you want is tough at first, and until you can paddle and move
the board around quickly to where you want to go, it's best to stay
out of crowds of surfers. A good part of surfing is just being strong
and agile and being able to move the board around in the water quickly
and with some degree of control. |
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| THE
GOOD NEWS:
The whitewater down the beach
from the crowds of surfers is always uncrowded, and it's just as much
fun as more advanced forms of surfing, and especially fun if you've
never surfed before. |
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