The first day you rode a wave :)

[TReMoR]

January 19, 2008 im so happy.. cuz i managed to do it on a shortboard.. it is a good thing i didnt quit after the 4th time i went to the beach... 5th time is the charm eh?

[Hang11]

Some time in the summer of 1981.

[essex sucks]

god knows

[joem]

late september 2006 (technecly it was auguest 1999 but that was bodyboarding)

[CHarvey]

The first wave I remember riding was sometime in 1994 but it is hard to say. Grew up on the beach body surfing and boogie boarding so i don't know if that counts. If so sometime in the mid-80s.

[tomato3000]

Raglan Beach, NZ in 2004. Soft top. That was just white water though.

First unbroken wave was a week or so later near Gisborne.

[Jonah_Fro]

August 1990 - Rhossili

[The Fafanator]

Like 2 years ago on a vacation I surfed just for that vacation, I think it was like December 2005 or something, I hadn't surfed again untill I moved to live with my grandparents again (Long story) and I started to surf again like 2-3 months ago, I caugt my first green wave like 1 1/2 months ago, but first got consistant like a week ago.

[Noserope]

Summer of 1965, I was five, Takanasee beach club had 10 inch waves that broke in eight inches of water 10 yards off shore. You had to walk out through the twelve inch deep spot before you got out to the breakers on the bar. I broke three styros there that summer. What a blast.
My pop finally let me have a real surfboard in 69". It was a ten footer he cut down to 6'6" , traced a new nose using a big hub cap, chopped a horizontal pie slice out of it, pinched the bottom up to the top and glassed it that way using way too much resin. It nosedived on the first wave and flew up behind me, I stood up and looked around for it and it landed on my head. It's been love ever since.

[Otter]

G's, to long ago, I don't remember. Guess it's Old Timers...

[perusurf]

i started bodyboarding back in 1988, surfed my first wave in 1989 in Peru, moved to the states where i did waterskiing in summer and snow boarding in winter, went back to Peru in mid 1994, and started surfing again, not too often, about 5 years later i started going everyday, no i live between spain and peru so i only surf everday when in peru, and in spain when i can, about twice a month

[isaluteyou]

about 2 years ago maybe less. I just remember a freind lending me a 10ft foamie and catching sum whitewater hated the board but was hooked on surfing and made a very quick transition from bodyboarding to surfing never looked back since

[CHMatt]

the first wave I stood up on was in 1989 in front of Atlantic Towers in carolina beach I was on a 7'2 G&S I hated that board I used to say it made my sinus hurt LOL

[Stone Fox]

Was the first day of a changed life.

It was one saturday, mid september, 2003

[hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf]

sometime between 1996-1998
how can you remember when youve caught hundreds or thousands since? besides, the first wave i caught was one of the least impressive. i can vaguely remember when i started doing cutbacks and staying on the face though. about 4 years ago.