Surfing Waves

I believe that for beginners, Polzeath, Cornwall, has got to be one of the best places to start to learn surfing. The waves can be pretty small (About 4 foot) and quite often you'll get a load of 10-15 foot ones. It is seriously a great place to surf.

errr this muct be a joke thread, seriously??!! Even four footer might be a bit too much for beginners, and you recon they can hold up in 10-15 foot?!

It is April fools day?

I learnt to surf there when i was about 8, and i could cope with those waves pretty quickly! I don't know any beginners that wouldn't be able to ride a 4 foot though, they're not that bad!

sounds like you're underestimating your wave size there. I dont know any begginners who be able to handle solid 4 ft. And at Polzeath that would be when it starts to take a while to get out back. I do agree with you that its a great place to learn but once it gets a bit bigger its a mission to get out. I doubt it would hold 15ft there either. and if it did i doubt anyone would be out. They'd be somewhere easier to paddle out.

Polzeath's waves are 1.8ft-8ft I learnt to surf in Polzy and it is relitavely easy, I've surfed when it's next to flat and when they are absolute corkers! August bank holiday weekend this year-on the friday they were awesome, by monday they weren't worth coming out of the valley site for.

Oh yeah, and did you know that David Cameron, Dave as we now call him, was bodyboarding at polzeath late august this year, my dad caught a wave with him! I was being a hardcore surfer and was out to sea, oblivious, but he was there!

PolzeathSurferSarah1 wrote:Polzeath's waves are 1.8ft-8ft

Thats quite an exact measurment you have there. Are you absolutely positive that they don't get as small as 1.4ft???

KS

No one can be sure of that, but Polzy's rating is 1.8-8 ft. We spoke to the lifeguards about this, I've been going to Polzeath all of my life, I've never known them to be awfully large or flat.