Surfing Waves

From BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43812884

The angle of the board looks like he has a chance to hang on and make it to the unbroken face where he might be able to stand depending on if he has froward motion and exactly what the wave looks like ahead.

Not when you grab on to the rails and have your feet dangling like that though. It's as if he is bodyboarding.

If a paper wants to caption a photo ‘a surfer rides a wave’, surely there are better photos in existence

Also the water colour makes me (yet again) happy that I don’t surf in England

BaNZ wrote:Not when you grab on to the rails and have your feet dangling like that though. It's as if he is bodyboarding.

exactly what it looks like but maybe he is headed sideways instead of forward in which case he is getting dumped but if he can body board it till he finds the unbroken face he might be able to pull himself forward and popup, that is what I do when I get hit by a wave before I can popup.

That's how you ride a surfboard once you reach what's called "Marmite Time" in Britain. It's an English thing.

marmite is the inferior version of Vegemite, I understand

dtc wrote:marmite is the inferior version of Vegemite, I understand

Yeah, Vegemite actually works as a shark repellant which is why they love it down under.

"He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich"!

RinkyDink wrote:

dtc wrote:marmite is the inferior version of Vegemite, I understand

Yeah, Vegemite actually works as a shark repellant which is why they love it down under.

It also works as a chick repellent.

BaNZ wrote:Not when you grab on to the rails and have your feet dangling like that though. It's as if he is bodyboarding.

exactly what I was thinking... his legs are all wonky, looks like they're going in two different directions, and he's gripping the rails. he has zero chance of getting up in that position.

That is true but maybe he wasn't trying to get up. Maybe he was trying to body board the surfboard to a smoother spot and stand up there. I do this sometimes when the wave hits me before I can popup. Of course it seems like he is just going to get pounded but I am pointing out that if he actually knows what he is doing there is a good chance he will make it out of this still riding the wave and have a chance to ride it to shore or cut out or get back onto the unbroken face and ride it. He is back on the board which makes me think he might be able to pull it off. Being on the back part of the board keeps the weight off the nose then combined with him gripping the rails and pulling up he may keep it from pearling and end up riding the wave laying down on the board.

that makes perfect sense, actually. I'd never be able to get out of that pickle, I'd just get womped on the head.