Surfing Waves

what do you reckon about bodysurfing?
My mate swears by it.
Wants me to get off the stick.
Keeps bangin on about it being the "Purest Form"
got his own website for his club

hell no...body surfing..or body boarding

its a laugh when its small and your just messing about ! but it would feellike a wasted wave to me on anything bigger

i went one mediocre day, and there was a body surfer out behind the longboarders where I was and was somehow managing to hog the waves! have yall heard of the guy who bodysurfs at Pipe?

Great in modoration but severly limiting in varitiy.

I love bodysurfing
as well as surfing, and fishing, sailing, diving, and bboarding.
I mean, yeah surfing's fun, in it's own way, but so is bodysurfing. Instead of dealing with how to get a big piece of foam out with you, you just kinda lounge around and dive under a wave or two, kick your way into another one and take off.

Texas really isn't the best place to bodysurf, there's so many other things in the water besides waterrrr.... like some places in mexico, I'd rather be sitting on a board instead.

stop being so closed minded and try something different





but yeah, mark(mike?) cunningham, he's a fish.

I dont like bodyboarding, the whole expierienc is standing up on your stick and riding the wave nothing beats it. Some people in uni wih me live to bodyboard and I cannot understand why people love it so much thinking its better than surfing. You just lay down on a board..what more can i say

erm.............http://www.boardom.com/Bodyboarding/Bdyboard_Quad_Photo.

i dont think it maters if your body surfing stand up, what ever its all good fun you should check out mark cunninham bodysurfing pipeline its insane ive never really tried it ive done it a few times after bailing with out a leash just bodysurfing in to grab my board

Laguna wrote:I dont like bodyboarding, the whole expierienc is standing up on your stick and riding the wave nothing beats it. Some people in uni wih me live to bodyboard and I cannot understand why people love it so much thinking its better than surfing. You just lay down on a board..what more can i say

Thats the point... its each to their own... and its what you make of it. See I find stand-up boaring and restrictive but I don't go pressing my opinion on everyone else.

in my opinion body boarding looks a little dull but each to their own. Depends if you like doing it standing or lying. (if you know what i mean). Although, i was going to say that i've just started surfing and was wondering whether surfing was boring compared to skateboarding. As an ex pro skater i've found that the number of tricks is 100 fold compared to surfing, or is this my surfing naivity. Surely you can do more tricks, and more complex ones at that ,compared to surfing. Or is surfing not just about tricks and more about carving and the soul etc. So will i get bored due to the fact that i cant perform mentalist skateboard tricks on a surf board. I mean a cutback is not uite as impressive as a 360 kickflip or a mctwist. is it? i'm questioning more than stating. Got to go, top gear is on.

DISCUSS!! yeah it was just a thought. cheers.

you got so much more varitey bboarding, like when you surf, it's off the lip, cutback, floaters and tailslides.


when you're lying down it's like bodysurfing but so much faster, so much more to do also...

poopalover wrote:in my opinion body boarding looks a little dull but each to their own. Depends if you like doing it standing or lying. (if you know what i mean). Although, i was going to say that i've just started surfing and was wondering whether surfing was boring compared to skateboarding. As an ex pro skater i've found that the number of tricks is 100 fold compared to surfing, or is this my surfing naivity. Surely you can do more tricks, and more complex ones at that ,compared to surfing. Or is surfing not just about tricks and more about carving and the soul etc. So will i get bored due to the fact that i cant perform mentalist skateboard tricks on a surf board. I mean a cutback is not uite as impressive as a 360 kickflip or a mctwist. is it? i'm questioning more than stating. Got to go, top gear is on.

DISCUSS!! yeah it was just a thought. cheers.

Bodyboarding/spongin is more like skateboarding in your comparasion... there is so mouch more you can do on a sponge. Watch any spongin dvd to see.

poopalover - here's what clinches it for me (as an ex skateboarder). If you look at console games like Tony Hawk vs Surfing games - the surfing games have to resort to unrealistic tricks in order to keep a player's interest. Skate games have much more variety and the unrealistic elements are more for fun (like "let me see if I can ollie over this 60 ft gap between buildings, land on the rail 80 ft below and pull off 6 different types of grind before dropping into the 1/2 pipe below that!!")

What makes surfing different is that you can NEVER have the same wave twice - each ride is an individual moment in time.

With skating, if you mess up a trick on a ramp, you can drop in and try again, if you don't get a long enough grind/ slide, you can set it up and try again. With surfing, when the wave's gone - it's gone, you can think 'I should have done this/ that' even 'I'll try and do this/that on the next one', but if you want to pull off the perfect floater, you have to be in exactly the right place at that one moment in time otherwise it's gone.

If you're skating on a run, you can plan your run eg. Kickflip over the box, big air on the ramp, tailslide on the kicker rail and finish with a mctwist over on that ramp over there. With surfing you have to think much quicker.

So in answer to your question, I don't think you'll get bored - it's completely different!

Cheers

Sinista

likeing the answer sinista. i get it. no i wont get bored. cheers. never though of the same wave twice point.

great post sinista... i was never a skater girl or anything but I could do a few tricks or two.

surfing is a PASSION period.