TIPS FOR SURF

If you are beginning or you would like to know some "tips". at the beginning, for many, surf can be very decepcionante and frustrating. When you stop in the bank of a beach and time many surfers in the sea everything it seems very easy. "You should only wait the wave, to row, stand up and I list", it is what we think every first time, until... you enter to the water. You even discover that it is difficult to remain sat down in the board without falling and when the foam comes...

PUT HIM YOU WIN
To learn, we need many desires you toss him you win! You don't disappoint yourself neither you frustrate yourself at the beginning. In little time you will see rewarding your effort.

AN APPROPRIATE SURFBOARD
It looks for a good surf, of preference with the rounded tip, if it is used, take care that not is very yellow, with many blows or holed. Don't forget of it whistles, it is made of an elastic and resistant material that is tied to your ankle.

TO KNOW HOW TO SWIM
A tip that is not other to mention, is that you know how to swim. Don't try to make surf if it is that you don't know how to swim, it is very dangerous! Remember, sea will be inside and if you don't know how to swim you won't have very good future.

CARE WITH THE SEA
Don't try to make surf in places where it is known it is full with sharks or crocodiles, in Peru we don't have that problem but if you are in another place I advise you that you make sure of not swiming next to these animals that God has created but that they are not good partners of the surf.

If you are novice you don't attempt surfear in areas for experts (Pico Alto for example). later on, with the practice, you will be able to make it.

Care with the currents, these they can crawl far and in some cases until putting in danger your own life.

Notice the flags that the national police, lifeboat and Coast Guard put in the costs. Red flag: I am in danger, not to swim in the sea, sea very dive. Yellow flag: Have much care, the sea is moved. Green flag: You can swim without problems.

SOME STEPS THAT YOU/THEY WILL HELP YOU TO LEARN
It is better to learn in calmed waters, with funds of sand that are not not very deep. It looks for a place with few people to avoid accidents. You have to learn how to dominate your board, to row, to sit down, to go down, etc.

To begin, it is better to make it with foams. It looks for these and in address to the coast until the foam reaches you, when the foam reaches you and you feel that it is taking you you don't need to continue rowing. Rows with force and decision being early to the arrival of the foam, calculating the times, distances, etc.)

When you feel already that the wave is taking you stand up in a single movement trying to fall at the same time with the two feet (one ahead and other behind) without pushing the board forward because but you "encabuzas". It doesn't works to make it in bony two times you don't kneel down and stant up later to stand up neither put a foot first and later the other one.
 

CLASSES OF BOARD
To take board classes is very useful. The "Muelas" has a board school in which you can learn very much. You can find more information in http://www.olasperu.com.

TIPS TO STOP IN THE BOARD

• It supports the hands in form page on the board, don't hold on to of the borders.

• When you are tossed on the board you notice that the tip stands out in the same way that it stands out when the board is floating alone in the sea. This will help you to have a good position. Very behind, the tip rises and your to row will be "chancho", "slow" and you won't be able to stop. If you are very ahead, the tip collapses.

• When you stop you are not as a soldier, right. Bend over a little, flexiona your legs and your shoulders lightly forward. This way you will be lowering your center of gravity.

TIPS TO PASS FOAMS FOR BELOW
This is the technique "duck-diving". to grab a wave you have to cross the area of impact of the waves or the reef. There you will have to face the foams. Here some useful advice:

• Don't stay looking at the foam, this it will grab you and it will knock you horrible.

• Don't try to face it, the foam has a lot of more force that your.

• Have you seen a marine duck face a wave? Because that same it is what you should make. You have to sink the board helping you with your two arms and your back foot or of your knee.
  In all the cases what you should make is to stretch the arms pushing the board down of the water, and simultaneously to be helped with the knee to the height of half of the board or to be helped with the foot in the inferior part of the board. Then to stretch the arms and the legs and to emerge of the other side of the wave to continue rowing and advancing toward the line-up.

LOOKS AT OTHER SURFERS
One learns seeing to other surfing very much. You look at yourself to yourself in each surfer that you observe. Concentrate on that faces.

SOME LAWS SURF
The sea and the waves are not yours, you will have to share them with other, we have to respect the neighbor and not to behave as wild troglodytes that we believe that we can pass above our fellow men. The one that doesn't not love to well-known to God because God is love. The surf is an excellent place to love the neighbor and to put into practice Jesus' teachings.

Priority in passing. - The priority ALWAYS has it the one that is more near where it is breaking the wave. Don't grab a wave if somebody already comes in her or it is in better position that your. If somebody has the priority or comes requesting, throw it stops behind or to a side. God blesses you! it is an excellent sentence to encourage the one that goes in the wave that you left...

Somebody above. - When you see that somebody is come above, the best thing is to be still without rowing hopelessly. The surfista will avoid you and to go by the side. In extreme cases the best thing is to submerge until the deepest thing that you can.

GOD BLESSES YOU!