Getting Started
Surfing is a challenging sport to learn. It’s physically demanding, often frustrating, and you need incredible patience. But ask any good surfer why he or she does [...]
Written on 04 December 2010.
Surfing is a challenging sport to learn. It’s physically demanding, often frustrating, and you need incredible patience. But ask any good surfer why he or she does [...]
Once you can ride broken waves with confidence you’re ready to venture further out to the lineup. But to get there you’ll have to get through bigger [...]
I have to admit I am a wax miser. I never buy the stuff and the current wax job on my 6’5” has been there for at [...]
Everyone wants to get air. Trouble is it’s not as easy as Taj makes it look. Hopping about like an epelectic frog ain’t a good look, and [...]
This basic manoeuvre enables the surfer to change direction and return to the steepest part of the breaking wave, the pocket, without loss of speed. There are [...]
The bottom turn is the first and most important manoeuvre every surfer should learn. As you drop into the wave, the idea is to transfer your weight [...]
With names like ‘Go’, ‘Torque’ and ‘Viper’, energy bars promise the world in terms of performance, but how do they really stack up when fed to hungry [...]