Bodyboarding tips.

So it would appear the bug has been caught, been four out of four days so far whilst down here in Cornwall. Managed to catch a few good waves inshore but with a success ratio of 10% at best 🙄
Any tips to match the generic ones we mountain bikers knock out to newbies of the sport??

1.Stay off my wave!
2.Learn to stand up!
Here endeth the lesson.

I guess your not using flippers.

Oh and stand up. Bodyboarding is for kids…

To start with its just practice to get used to reading the waves and positioning your self well. If you are trying to catch waves out of your depth you will need some small stuby flippers so you can get enough speed. Just keep going and worry more about enjoying it. It will click and it is brilliant fun.

Standups think they are great and are infact homos. Watch a bodyboarding film then a surfing film, it’s like BMX vs roadies 🙂

Bodyboarding, the winter equivalent;

😉

I too have recently got back into bodyboarding again, thanks to my little one being totally hooked.

Packing tonight for 3 days at Woolacombe and cannot wait, looks like I have the bug again 😉

I found using flipper or fins as they now call them help you catch more waves.

Found this website gave me some good advice about board types and sizing, when I was looking at tips and kit.

http://www.bodyboardhq.co.uk/home.html

(I have no links to the shop in any way btw)

Been messing with drop knee recently, great fun.

Bodyboarding is for kids…

See

Standups think they are great and are infact homos

or

Ohhh I do love a good stand up wind up 🙂

Meh.

We had a great time body boarding last week at Woolacombe.

Daughter wanted to try it and everyone else seemed to be doing it too. As I’m still a child too, we bought 2 boards and had a boss time.

Sometimes we caught a wave, sometimes we didn’t, sometimes we caught one together and then looked at one another as we got shuttled to the shore, laughing. That is what it’s about after all?

Forget all the surf board “standing up” snobbery & bodyboarding thinking surfers are homos and just have a laugh.

Spent a few days passing stand ups down at Saunton last week – it’s been a few years but was totally hooked again, instantly 🙂

A visit to the likes of Magicseaweed and reading the comments between surfers/bodyboarders will put you off trying it out! It’s a shame,and It’s great that there’s nothing like this in cycling :O)

At the other end of the scale,away from the internet forums and comments under photo’s.If you asked a handful of pro surfers what they thought of Mike Stewart..

I loves me a bit of sponging when the mood strikes. I also quite likes a bit of surfing (which actually makes up about 99% of my time in the water). It’s all good.

My tip: Don’t drop in.

surfed for years but always enjoyed sponging more and less broken face/hands. fins are a must. but as with surfing, one mint wave in a session is all your really looking for. just enjoy being in the water and every stomach rushing perfect wave is a bonus…surfing is the source dude, change your life swear to god 😉