Tutorial for beginners to start surfing with zero basics
Surfing is the most popular, fashionable and most fun water sport nowadays. More and more people love this sport. In fact, learning to surf is not difficult. As long as you master the basic surfing skills, whether it is self-study or surfing courses, you will get twice the result with half the effort.
The benefits of surfing
1. Relieve stress
The sea and the beach are the best places for exercising to relieve stress. Walking barefoot on the beach, the soft sand seems to massage our feet, promote blood circulation and relax us.
We kept trying to stand up again and again at sea, and our failures did not break us. We kept summarizing and analyzing through failures, improving again and again, and going through hardships. In the end, we successfully stood up and enjoyed the speed of the waves and the stimulation of speed. Get our adrenaline pumping, nervous and excited.
The moment I stood up, I felt that the wave was mine, the sea was mine, and the world was mine; no more work pressure, no more family troubles, no more...
2. The effect of strengthening the body and losing weight is great
Surfing is a test of balance and strength. In order to maintain balance, we have been tensing our muscles, thereby exercising our back and abdomen. Constantly looking for a balanced position on the surfboard fully exercised our thigh muscles.
Some surfing skills, such as paddling, turning in place, and riding to work, all require strength to complete these movements lastingly and repeatedly, so learning to surf can greatly exercise the muscles of the whole body, and the effect is much better than the gym, because you are on the side. Playing while exercising, distracted and not tired.
Because surfing can eliminate the fat on the abdomen, legs and arms and say goodbye to excess fat, the weight loss effect will definitely make you overjoyed! Surfing is the most suitable method for weight loss discovered abroad. People who often surf must be in great shape!
Moreover, because learning to surf requires constant head-turning, two-arm paddling, and riding on the board, these actions have a very good effect on the shoulders, neck, waist, and knees, and help the functional recovery of the damaged part.
3. Increase self-confidence, enhance stress resistance, and open up appetite
Facing the cruel society of reality, repeated failures are slowly eroding our self-confidence, slowly eroding our spirit, making us lose the feeling of experiencing success, and are afraid of failure!
Surfing, however, can slowly restore your self-confidence. Why?
Learning to surf is like facing society. We are beaten time and time again by the sea and tempered again and again. Through our own continuous summarization of experience, we slowly overcome the current difficulties, and finally overcome the sea, successfully stand on the board, and ride the wind and waves.
When you overcome difficulties again and again, you are reborn again and again, and you experience the feeling of success again and again, it is because of these times that you slowly build up your self-confidence, so that you are no longer afraid of failure!
How newcomers learn to surf:
If you want to surf, you must have a surfboard, a green paddle board.
The correct entry action can make you get started surfing faster, control your surfboard more easily in the sea, and experience the charm of surfing faster.
Surfing Skills: Getting on the Board
When getting on the surfboard, you should get on the board from the diagonal back and cannot sit on it - this will easily make the surfboard lose its balance and overturn.
Rest your feet on the back of the surfboard.
The navel is in the center of the surfboard.
Supports you on your thighs and ribs.
Raise your shoulders, keep your upper body straight, and push your waist.
Keep your eyes on the heights, don't look at the front of the surfboard.
Flexible body position according to your size and the size of the surfboard.
On the board, you should lie in the middle of the surfboard. If you lie too far forward, the head will be too heavy; if you lie too far back, the head will be too tilted, which will lead to overturning.
The surfing skills of the the paddling:
1. When paddling, the shoulders and chest need to be raised, and the center of gravity should be placed in the triangle area of the stomach and thighs, so that the sea water can smoothly pass between the surfer and the surfboard. If the chest is not raised, the surfboard cannot move forward.
2. When paddling, keep your heels close together or crossed. With the feet open, the posture is unsightly and increases resistance.
3. Row the water alternately with both hands, put the five fingers together to the limit and then lift it up. When turning, hold the front of the surfboard with one hand, and quickly paddle with the other hand to turn. To steer to the right, you must grab the surfboard with your right hand and make a quick stroke with your left, and vice versa if you want to steer to the left.The stroke must be large and flexible. (You don't need small, quick strokes.) The shoulders need to be raised as high as possible, and the eyes look far ahead.
The surfing skills of stand up on the board:
1. Straighten your arms with your hands down, keep your shoulders and chest straight and look straight ahead.
2. Seize the opportunity and quickly step out of the front foot according to daily habits, so that the distance between the front and rear feet is about 15 cm.
3. Step on the front foot in the middle of the surfboard, quickly retract the back foot and stand up, bend the knee slightly, the center of gravity is in front, and keep the balance with both hands open on both sides of the body. When you need to turn, as long as you turn your body to the desired direction, you can drive the surfboard to turn.
4. On the surfboard, the soles of your feet should be parallel to each other, and you should not stand in a T-step to avoid losing your balance and overturning into the water. Head and eyes should be facing the direction you want to go.
