A surfboard’s rocker is the arch of board’s outline from nose to tail. The more curved or crescent-shaped the surfboard appears, the more rocker the surfboard has. The right rocker on the right board on the right wave can support a surfer, but the opposite is true, too. Either when buying a surfboard or to […]
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When you change your tires, your vehicle drives a little differently, albeit the shift is hard to notice. But when you change the fin on your longboard, there’s a startling difference in a board’s functionality — especially if the type of longboard fin is far different from its predecessor. The right fin on the right
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There’s left handed and right handed. In surfing, there’s goofy and regular. But where did the term “goofy-footed surfer” come from, what does it mean, and is there any association between being left-handed and being goofy-footed? Goofy vs. Regular Stance There are two stances in surfing — goofy and regular. A regular-stanced surfer surfs with
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There are tons of odd-shaped surfboard tails out there, but do they have any particular purpose instead of just looking different? It turns out that the shape of a tail can improve the performance of a surfboard depending on the wave and what you want the board to do. There are a number of different
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Duck diving is difficult to learn and even more difficult to master. In surfing, a duck dive is the action of sinking your board beneath an oncoming wave so that you and it escape beneath the wave’s energy and smoothly pop out the back. But the action requires much practice and is one of the
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Good longboarders make noseriding look angelic. Watching a perfect noseride doesn’t rouse the same virile shouts heard after the forceful hack of John John’s shortboard — it’s like being seated on a front-row red cushion, unable to blink at the riveting performance of inexplicably balanced soul-arching hang 10s and wispy cross-steps. But it took good
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Okay, so fall-proof was a bit disingenuous. But here, we promise that you’ll learn how to properly wax a surfboard so that its bump peak to stickosity ratio is the perfect marriage of wax meets fiberglass. Types of Surf Wax The two industry leaders in the surf realm have held down the wax game for
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There’s nothing worse than having a towel fall down to your ankles in a crowded parking lot. The tuck of a regular beach towel can untuck faster than you can fall off a surfboard, but thankfully, someone found a hole in the surf parking lot market and invented the coziest piece of surf apparel —
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If you’ve recently taken up longboarding or even if you’re a long-time longboarder, there comes a point when you want to start learning how to move around on your surfboard. Cross stepping is the movement of one foot over or under the other in order to get to an area of the surfboard. Standing in
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