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| Buying Your Teen Surfing Equipment Even If You Are a Swisher or Poser |
| The joy of parenthood does not just extend to choosing the right schools, ensuring that the earliest morsels ingested are nutritious, and of course sitting up endless nights when there is spit up, warm foreheads, or great white imaginary sharks under the bed. Instead, it means slowly but gradually turning your parent-child relationship into a parent-friend relationship. Usually, this switch occurs in the child’s late teen years, and as a parent in that precarious shifting of the sands, you may find that becoming your teen’s friend is a lot harder than you had imagined. Sure, as a parent your command was gold and you would control what junior go to do. But now that your young one is older and getting ready to fly the nest, you will need to choose to become involved in the activities that interests her or him most, and if surfing is one of them, you can either buy a gift certificate to the local Surfboard Shop (easy cop-out) or try and become involved in the surf culture and understand what makes your teen tick. more |
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| Five Tips to Keep In Mind When Learning To Surf |
| Surfing is a mix of art, sport, and equipment knowledge. While the former is something that can neither be taught nor explained but only comes with ardent practice over a long period of time – if it comes at all – the other two are easier to pick up. Perhaps the most daunting aspect of the entire experience is picking up the lingo. If you are a preteen or teen, this is not that hard since you will be taught simply by listening to your friends and acquaintances, but if you are older or trying to break into a new surf community, you will find that it is a bit harder to do. more |
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| Starting Your Surf Hobby with the Right Type of Board |
| When it comes to buying surfboards, perhaps the biggest danger is to show up at the beach and be seriously under-gunned or over-gunned. No amount of sex wax can compensate for using a board that is either too long or too short for the conditions at hand. While it is cost prohibitive to own a large number of boards, there is some basic gear you will need to make the most of the waves you encounter. While a surfboard shop will be happy to sell you any number of boards and other gear, by and large you will need three different kinds of boards stacked in your surf racks before you decide to g surfing at either the tried and true beaches or some new surf spots that might require a bit of travel to get there. more |
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| Buying a Wetsuit That Fits |
| As though the purchase of surfboards were not complicated enough – after all, you will need to decide if longboards, shortboards, or funboards will eat up your hard earned money – or the notion that walking through a surfboard shop is like running the gauntlet of a wide array of manufacturers of different types of gear, all of whom are claiming to be the best – think Roxy, Rip Curl, Quicksilver, Billabong, Hansen, Reef, Corbin, O’Neill, Hurley, and Rusty – the question about wetsuits is most likely to present the next challenge. more |
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