Articles Index
What is Surfing?
What is surfing, you ask? For hardcore surfers and new surfers alike who wonder about surfing's greater meaning, here is a delightfully fluffy but enjoyably true definition and answer to a question that elludes description and interpretation. What is surfing...Really?
How and Why do Quad Fin Surfboards Work?
Quad fin surfboards began their assent in the early eighties, finding legitimacy under the feet of Glen (Mr. X) Winton and have found new significance as the board of choice among modern surfing's elite in both small and big surf. The question is: Why and how do quad surfboards work.
Bonzai Pipeline - "Pipe"
Bonzai Pipeline (now know as Pipe), located on Oahu, Hawaii on the famed North Shore is the definitive surfing arena. Many dangerous waves have been discovered since Bonzai Pipeline was first surfed in Hawaii, but no wave can match Pipeline for its perfect combination of power, beauty, and pure surfing spectacle. Learn all you need to know about surfing Bonzai Pipeline, Hawaii.
Surfer's Ear: Exostosis
Although this surfing ailment is commonly referred to as Surfer's Ear, the medical term is actually exostosis (which really means abnormal bone growth within the ear canal). Extended exposure to cold wind and cold water can result in abnormal bone growth that narrows ear canal with the possibility of complete blockage.
What is Surf Style?
What is surf style? Surf Style is something mystical and beautiful. But what really makes up a surfer's style?
How to Buy a Bodyboard
Learning how to buy a bodyboard can be tricky. But there are a few easy tips that will put a new bodyboard under your arm and get you shredding in no time.
Summer Surf Destinations
Find out where to travel in the summer and find the best waves for surfing and adventure. Whether you are a beginner or a professional, Jay Dimartino's article will provide surfers and bodyboarders with all the best surf spots.
How to do an Aerial
It seems that these days every surfer knows how to do an aerial. Decades earlier, aerials were pure fantasy, but today any surfer worth his weight in wax needs to have at least one aerial variation in his/her repertoire. Learn how to do an aerial now.
How to Choose the Right Surf Spot
Learning how to choose a spot to surf can be challenging, especially for beginning surfers. But this is the place to learn how to choose the perfect beach for surfing. Learn how a beginner can correctly choose a surf break to practice his/her surfing.
Surfing Basics
These surfing basics for beginners hit on a few golden rules that all surfers should know.
How to Catch a Wave
Just learning to surf and want to learn how to catch a wave? Look no further. Catching a wave is the most essential step in the surfing process, but it can also be tricky. Learn more.
How to Complete a Floater
Surfers are finding new tricks every day, but the floater is a time-tested beauty. Combining weightless lip gliding, board control, and countless variations, the floater is a surf trick that takes some knowledge and practice. Learn more...
The Green Surfboard
The green surfboard seems like a no brainer. Surfers have a rep for being reef hugging hippies, but surfers and their beloved surfboards have in fact added much to fuel our over heated climate. For decades or surboard industry has been ripping through polyurethane foam blanks coated in petrochemical solvents and polyester resin and wrapped in fiberglass. But a new green surfboard movement seeks to change this direction.
Fish Surfboards and Funboards
About a decade ago, the fish surfboard rose from the ashes of the 70's, offering surfers another option. The fish boasts loads of speed and maneuverability, but what makes a fish surfboard a fish surfboard? Also, the fish's strange older and more boring cousin, the funboard, is still another alternative to the average shortboard. Learn more.
How to Duck-dive
Learning to duck-dive is another step in learning how to surf. You can't learn to surf if you can't get out to the lineup and catch some waves. Duck-diving gets you under and past the oncoming waves. Learn more...
How to Treat Jellyfish Stings
Learn how to treat jellyfish stings. Surfers often encounter the stinging pain of jellyfish. Learn more about the symptoms and treatment of jellyfish stings.
Best Surf Movies Ever
Surf Movies: A list of the most memorable modern Hollywood surf movies from Big Wednesday and North Shore to Pointbreak and Blue Crush.
How to Hit the Lip
Learn How to Surf: Want to learn how to hit the lip hard? You came to the right place. This surf instruction article will help beginning to advanced surfers to blast maneuvers like a lip bashing re-entry. This article focuses on how to surf better and how to correctly bash, hit, and whack the lip of a wave.
How to Complete a Frontside Roundhouse Cutback
Want to learn to surf better now? This article breaks down the roundhouse cutback, one of the most functional and visually stunning moves in any surfer's bag of tricks. I have broken this move down into seven(that's right, seven)easy steps you help you learn how to surf better.
How to Buy a Surfboard
As a beginning surfer, it's easy to make mistakes when buying a new surfboard. Read these basic and helpful tips to help you learn how buy a surfboard. You'll be shredding in no time.
Basic Surfing Rules
Don't let anyone tell you that there are no surf rules, that surfing is a lawless free-for-all without a basic structure or rules. This free-wheeling art form actually consists of basic surfing rules that govern all surf-related interaction. So what are the basic surfing rules?
Garrett Lisi: Dropping in and Dropping Science
Surfer/scientist Garrett Lisi penned the theorey of everything. Skeptical? I was too, but not that some nerdy physicist succeeded in figuring out the complexities of nature, but rather that said science guy is psycho for surfing and kite boarding and whittles away his days riding perfect waves in Maui (when not scribbling cryptographic mathematical renderings). I was stoked to get a chance to ask Garret few questions about his life, surfing and, well, “everything.”
How do I Teach My Child How to Surf?
Want to teach your child how to surf? Remember, nurturing a young love affair with surfing starts with you, the teacher, so be patient and follow a few simple steps and your child will learn how to surf in no time.
How to Pack a Surfboard for Travel
Taking a surf trip this year? Learn how to pack your surfboard safely and cheaply for travel to international and domestic surf destinations.
How to Paddle your Surfboard
Learning how to paddle your surfboard is essential. I mean, really, without learning how to paddle, you are dead in the water, so strengthen up those arms and learn how to paddle your surfboard and get some waves.