Surfing Waves

So i just bought a new used simon anderson 6'0 TPF3 SB, and i noticed there are a few dings on it...Just little indents in the board. is that bad? I am new to shortboards and never got dings on my longboard. Is there a way i can prevent them from getting worse? Are dings normal? AHH.

Dings are perfectly normal, particularly with lightly glassed performance boards. Second hand boards will almost always have a few dings and repairs. As long as there's nothing that's cracked all the way through to the foam underneath it's nothing to worry about.