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No-nonsense tips for beginner and intermediate surfers

Locals: be nice!

Locals: be nice!

· by Sam · in Stories, Surf Anxiety, Surf Culture

For anyone who lives near a wave, let’s try to be patient and open to travelling surfers. Corona is still around, but so are the anxieties and challenges that we all shrug off in the sea.

Pick Up Your Leash!

Pick Up Your Leash!

· by Sam · in Stories, Surf Gear, Surf Technique

Learners, never make this mistake. “You have a split second to decide whether you land on your face or your board. Somehow, you do both at the same time.”

The 'system check' aka 'oh good I'm still alive'

The ‘system check’ aka ‘oh good I’m still alive’

· by Sam · in Stories, Surf Anxiety, Surf Technique

You breach. You gob and gawp and hack at the briny blue. Have you been under for three minutes? You fell on the biggest wave you’ve ever tried. You ate it. Four minutes? More?

Looking Cool While Surfing

Cool Learners Look Stupid

· by Sam · in Stories, Surf Culture, Surf Technique

Tell the truth about your experience and what you’d like to achieve. More time surfing waves and less time drinking sea water.

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Buy A Crap Wetsuit

· by Sam · in Stories, Surf Gear

This is terrible, terrible advice. The first suit I bought was a £20-something, holey nightmare. It was hardly better than a t-shirt, but it was great for my early surfing ability.

Surfing your first reef break

Surfing your first reef break

· by Sam · in Stories, Surf Technique

Reef breaks. Scary stuff for a beginner surfer. Cuts, infections, tropical diseases. Right? Well… not all reefs are created equal.

In the Line Up - Johny Goerend

Going beyond the white water

· by Sam · in Stories, Surf Anxiety, Surf Technique

Getting “out the back” — beyond the white water — isn’t something to shy away from. After the first few times you go surfing, it’s time to get out there.

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SURF SLANG

My surf slang dictionary with loads of surfer Stick Man doodles as examples...



Hack – “Throwing spray” with a quick and powerful top turn or cutback.



Bottom turn – Turning in the trough of a wave to face along it. A crucial manoeuvre and often the very first thing a surfer does after he’s popped up.

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