Surfing Waves

hey,im bigining to surf, do u need other qualaties other than size in a wave in order to surf, like consiseancy of the wave? or anythig ealce,
pls reaply, thanx

Maybe I'm strange, but wave shape, and form are my prioritys over wave size.

I'll take a 2 foot glassy ground swell any day over a head high wind blown mess.

If your just in the white water, not getting out back yet, then anything that doesnt beat you up too much(and gets you mooving) is good enough.

Once you can paddle, pop up, trim the board somewhat & get out back you want nice clean waves, 2-3ft or so till your used to catching green faced waves.

When your learning part of it is learning abotu waves, whats good, whats bad, when its worth going out & staying out, or staying in.

WooD wrote:Maybe I'm strange, but wave shape, and form are my prioritys over wave size.

I'll take a 2 foot glassy ground swell any day over a head high wind blown mess.

yup, same here..waves that peel slowly, coral/reef breaks have the best shapes in my opinion

dondiemand wrote:..waves that peel slowly, coral/reef breaks have the best shapes in my opinion

Umm..not all of them

Dec wrote:

dondiemand wrote:..waves that peel slowly, coral/reef breaks have the best shapes in my opinion

Umm..not all of them

Thats one mean looking wave. Give me bloody 1ft ankle slop over that any day

But seriously Form is better than size. So often ive been in big surf that was all messy it's just not as fun more like hairy

thanx for replin,
so can u surf on any wave witch is decent sized but some are better than others, or ar their some decent sized waves that ar impossible to ride?
cos i live in kenya witch is in africa and their ar no surf shops here so i have to ship one in, so i furst i need to find out if our waves ar rideable cos i cant reurn it!
thanx alot c ya

Send some pictures of an average/poor day and a good day. It's hard to tell just from typing.

Good Luck

hey, im going to the beach over the weekend so ill take some pics and send them to u,but it isnt the big wave season, c ya

oh and dam thats a huge messy wave in your pic! wouldent like to wipeout in that

It's a huge wave that has sucked almost dry over a reef. So he is pretty much about to eat a lot of coral...and get held against it for a while! Not a nice thought!

Dec wrote:It's a huge wave that has sucked almost dry over a reef. So he is pretty much about to eat a lot of coral...and get held against it for a while! Not a nice thought!

Have you read his account of it? Goes something along the lines of "I could see it was a mutant but my tow partner seemed to think it was okay, so I went with it. Then suddenly there's this monster mutant all around me... (quite a lot more) ...I so so so almost made it"

drowningbitbybit wrote:

Dec wrote:It's a huge wave that has sucked almost dry over a reef. So he is pretty much about to eat a lot of coral...and get held against it for a while! Not a nice thought!

Have you read his account of it? Goes something along the lines of "I could see it was a mutant but my tow partner seemed to think it was okay, so I went with it. Then suddenly there's this monster mutant all around me... (quite a lot more) ...I so so so almost made it"

How can you almost make that?? It just looks like thousands of tons of death on his head..over thousands of square meters of deadly rocks and reef!!

I watched some laurie towner stuff..that's quite amazing!

Definately they have my admiration!

That step that that wave creates is mad. And is this not the wave that they took the inflatable croc onto in memory of Steve Irwin. Might be wrong there. But i have seen some mad paddle in surfing and tow in on that wave, its just that step that appears from nowhere.

I wonder what he was thinking when he looked up and saw that
Hit the lip, or go for a nice carving cutback?

Probably "I gotta get out of here as fast as I can!"

-doug

That cannot BE real!!!

Seriously, that would crush a person.

i was that picture without the person about a year ago, and now theres a person in it and i swear its the same picture, but is he did ride that good on him, i would of shat myself

Oh, it's real.

Shipsternsis a hell of a break... Very heavy.

But not as heavy as Cyclops.

-doug

the only place i will never ever surf in my life is cyclops anywhere els i will probably give it ago