Surfing Waves

does anyone here bodyboard and what is everyones opinion on it?...just trying to start conversation!

here is my opinion of bodyboarding.

I think it lacks alot of talent unlike surfing. My second time on a sponge I did a barrel role. after my first year of surfing I finally got more than one cutback down the face of a wave.

Anyone can lay down on a board and snap the lip but to stand up and feel that grove that spits you down the face after a good rip is like getting 300 dollars for one painting at a musium.

Don't get me wrong though If there is a good 6 ft beach break with 4 foot barrels in 6 inches of water I would run my ass out there with a sponge anyday cause thats just fantastic.

Have you ever seen "Against the Grain" perhaps you should take a look at what REAL b00gers are doing now adays..

unfortunatly bboarding is tanted by the image of fat blokes and lil gromets on the beach shop polystyrine planks...

http://www.netbb.com (Fluid Zone)
Three Sixty

Humm.. You see Stand ups surfing things like this:


Take a gander at thoose sites... Bboarding has changed ALOT... Bigger, Heavyer, better. :)[/url]

i still think surfing is more rewarding

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Thanx Surfpatrol, it is a thumbnail and opens into a popup window. Guys just go to:
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and check out Malik Joyeaux in a scarily deep pit in Teahupoo. Not trying to hack BB by the way, my best mate is a sponger. I do think surfers have the possibility to ride bigger and go deeper though simply because of the speed/stability factor, having said that anyone who has seen M. Stewart getting towed into Jaws in the film ''In gods hands'' has to wonder.....

Peace.
Ozzie.

They have some great pictures on the site - I especially liked this one - not for the faint hearted

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that's a sweet spongin' pict....but with those legs danglin' back there, kinda looks like a frog in a washer machine....sorry, no ill will meant, just too easy to resist. as for the guy about to get worked by the mutant double-up (is that dungeons?), is the ensuing pain worth the photo? ala the epic photo sequence of Jay Moriarty's wipeout at Mavericks a few years back.

oh yeah, as for teahupoo goes, after laird hamilton dailed in the deepest and heavest ever ridden there and then followed it up with by riding that foilboard/ufo thing, there isn't much anyone, sponger or standup alike that will top that.

OK, i have written about this before in a previous convo but my opinion is that bodyboarding and surfing should go hand-in-hand. I do both and I think that each discipline helps the other one out big time. I really love to bodyboard as it is easy at first to bust some tricks but when it comes to joining all the sections of the wave together with tricks, bottom turns, thats when you need to know your stuff. The same goes with surfing except the learning curve for bodyboarding is a lot steeper. I like surfing too, because of the satisfaction of finally being able to pull off a cutback for example, that you have been practicing for weeks. I just think that each have their own uniqueness and are as good as one another. Tourists do give bodyboarders a real bad name cos they get in the way and don't know the surfing "etiquette" which is annoying for the guys who take it seriously. Surfers and bodyboarders should respect one another as they both after the same thing - having fun by riding waves. 8)

Inletsurfer wrote:i still think surfing is more rewarding

for you mabey and what are your reasons?

for me I find b00gin more rewarding, its far more versitile, closer to the wave, DK riding takes skill and you can go bigger, steeper and bust so much more :)

Each has its pros and cons.. unfortunatly Bboarding is (as I've said) tainted by the image of fat lobster tourists hap hazzardly all over the place in white water.. but then I see that same on stand-up... Just the way things are I guess.

Bboarding can only be apprecated on film or seeing 1st hand a good rider..

SP - that pic u posted.. thats that same wave (Cyclops) just on a messeyer day...

Invert :D

I have surfed on and off since I was 7, but the last 2 years I have struggled to get out and have fun.
The other day I just bought a bodyboard... I just want to get back out there and have a good time, isnt that what its all about.

I love surfing though, but it is such a progressive sport that if you want to be good at it you have to be out there whenever you can. Bodyboarding is easier to get into, but I still feel that you get a bigger rush after surfing a wave than you do Bboarding it.

Fair enough everyone to themselves in reguards to what they get out of surfing.

True bboarding is 'easyer' to start but the progresion and learning curve rapidly steepens.

jethro-bodine wrote:here is my opinion of bodyboarding.

I think it lacks alot of talent unlike surfing. My second time on a sponge I did a barrel role. after my first year of surfing I finally got more than one cutback down the face of a wave.

Anyone can lay down on a board and snap the lip but to stand up and feel that grove that spits you down the face after a good rip is like getting 300 dollars for one painting at a musium.

Don't get me wrong though If there is a good 6 ft beach break with 4 foot barrels in 6 inches of water I would run my ass out there with a sponge anyday cause thats just fantastic.

so true.

By why?

and I'd love to see if it was done with style..

ive been on a bodyboard over reefs you could never surf and have had so much fun and thats all it comes down to realy having fun and riding waves weither its a bodyboard or a surfboard

but dont knock it till you have tried it

Thankyou :)