Today, you don’t need to be a professional surfboard shaper to build a surfboard from scratch. Here’s everything you need to know before making your private surfboard shaping room. Surfboard shaping is an art, but that shouldn’t stop you from becoming an amateur artist. Surfers are experimentalists, and we all dream of, one day, producing […]
In surfing, a closeout wave is a wave that breaks all at once, abruptly from end to end, and doesn’t allow surfers to ride it because it doesn’t offer a non-vertical wall. In other words, closeout waves are not good for surfing, and they tend to appear more frequently in beach breaks, and low tides […]
It’s a surfer’s nightmare, and there’s nothing you can do about it. The black ball flag is a synonym for “no surfing,” even if the waves are pumping out the back. The black ball, or blackball flag, is a rectangular flag featuring a centered, solid black circle against a yellow background which is raised on […]
The most important thing in surfing is the grip. Without it you couldn’t turn, stand, sit or shred on your surfboard. However, after days, weeks or months of surfing wax begins to weaken. Many people outside of the surfing world don’t know what surfboard wax is or what it is for. If they had to […]
Kelly Slater has broken his right foot while free surfing at Jeffreys Bay, in South Africa. The 11-time world surfing champion pulled into a closeout barrel, and his surfboard slammed back into his foot while underwater breaking his foot in two places. Slater was immediately forced to withdraw from the 2017 Corona Open J-Bay and, […]
Do you want to try surfing waves, but you don’t have time or patience for overpriced surf lessons and bossy instructors? Watch the best instructional videos for learning to surf. Have you decided to learn to surf? Start surfing in one day with a five-step video course that will help you with the equipment, the […]
Have you felt the call to go surfing? Are you planning to enroll your kids in surf lessons? Are you unsure of which surf school to choose from? Selecting the right surf school for you, or your children can be tricky, especially when there are so many options available. Talking to people who had previous […]
How can you tell when a surfer has right of way over another wave rider? What is priority in surfing? Surfing is the sport of catching waves before they break. As a result, surfers need to position themselves in the lineup so that they can catch the rollers in the right spot, i.e., where they […]
Mick Fanning and Owen Wright have been confirmed on the 2017 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour. The three-time world surfing champion decided to return to competition again, after spending most of 2016 in free surf and decompression mode. Fanning says he is highly motivated and ready to do battle. “2015 was a tough year. […]
Australian surf photographer and filmmaker Tim Bonython is the man behind “The Big Wave Project,” an exhilarating surf movie experience. The film documents the evolution of big wave surfing in the past decades, and it became an obsession for its actors and actresses. To make “The Big Wave Project” a reality, Bonython traveled the world, […]