Surfing Waves

People go to the gym to get in shape / get stronger ( pick up girls ).
People surf for fun, exercise, ( pick up girls )

I realized there is a correlation between the two. Guys who show off and don't know what they're doing , get hurt. Guys who try to lift too heavy a weight too soon get hurt bad.

Same for surf boards. Say you start on a 9'0". Work you way down to a 8'0". Move up (or is it down ?) to a 7'2", then jump on a 5'9". What happen to the 6'4" ?
That's almost like starting lifting 15lbs. , then 25lbs. , then 50lbs. , then STRUGGLING to lift 100lbs. What happened to the 75lbs. ?

The more logical, less frustrating and Safer way is to step up in weight gradually. Same goes for surfboard downsizing.

I knew you had something to say about this. I am sure you see that problem quite often in real life as we do here on the forum

I forget if I told this story.....was in a shop a couple of months ago buying a tail pad and a guy comes in and says he wants to buy a board....shop guy asks him what he's looking for and what he has now.....the newb says he has never surfed before and doesn't have a board, but skateboard and snowboards a lot....shop guy points him to the 8 &9ft mals....newb turns up his nose and says that he's more advanced than that and "show me what the pros ride".....I interject and tell him that if he's never surfed before to listen to the shop guy and take a big board otherwise he will not catch any waves on his vacation.....

"I want what the pros ride!"
He was going over the rack with the sub 30L shorties (he was around 190cm and probably 85kg.....looked like he came from somewhere with a lot of snow).


I paid and left. What to do?

Big H wrote:I paid and left. What to do?

Catch the wave he just missed.

drowningbitbybit wrote:

Big H wrote:I paid and left. What to do?

Catch the wave he just missed.

oldmansurfer wrote: I am sure you see that problem quite often in real life as we do here on the forum

I hope you don't mean if i see it in the gym often. I probably can't even lift just the bar without any weights on it.

Big H wrote:"I want what the pros ride!"

What if that very same surfboard customer went to the gym. He'd be like "I don't need a fitness instructor, I'll just figure it out on my own". Then he'll be watching a professional powerlifter squatting 600 pounds. "Give me what the PRO's lift !"

waikikikichan wrote:Say you start on a 9'0". Work you way down to a 8'0". Move up (or is it down ?) to a 7'2", then jump on a 5'9".What happen to the 6'4" ?

My surfing career is all backwards.
* As a kid, I started on a mat (remember those things you blew air into?)
* In college, I moved up to a 7 foot fish,
* A year ago, I jumped on a 9'2" longboard, and
* This fall, I can't wait for my retirement gift - a 9'6" noserider!

waikikikichan wrote:

Big H wrote:"I want what the pros ride!"

What if that very same surfboard customer went to the gym. He'd be like "I don't need a fitness instructor, I'll just figure it out on my own". Then he'll be watching a professional powerlifter squatting 600 pounds. "Give me what the PRO's lift !"

Hahaha well, I dated a girl who could do 600 pounds in a seated leg press, she was a college volleyball jock. She thought I could do 600 as well but I tried 400 and while I had the strength I could feel the tension on my tendons and I didn't want to try anymore LOL ....heck she could do more weights than me on any machine except for the back machine

drowningbitbybit wrote:

Big H wrote:I paid and left. What to do?

Catch the wave he just missed.

Make sure you do that right beside him!