This surf tip is going to teach you some surf science! The info is straight from day 2 of my 5 day surf course for beginners. This is the first step. The waves that experienced guys and girls want are not going to be easy for learning. However, what they would regard as flat could be your perfect training ground.
Size is pretty straight forward. How high the wave is from the bottom to the top of the lip. The problem is the way surfers describe the height of a wave. What most kiwi surfers call ft is actually about 4 -8ft if you were to measure it. It gets even more confusing when you travel — Hawaiian 2ft is actually a lot bigger than a kiwi 2ft, yet an American 2ft is closer to the actual measurement. I prefer to say shoulder height, overhead, double overhead….
This will depend on your fitness and ocean knowledge. As a general rule anything from waist high to head high will be a safe bet. Power is sometimes hard to predict until you build experience.
It is simply how hard the waves are breaking and the volume of water involved. Heavy, powerful waves have less margin for error and more consequences so it goes without saying that you want gentle breaking waves when learning to surf. The Shape of a wave is either hollow or spilling as seen in the diagram below. Hollow may also be described as sucky, barrelling, or tubing. Spilling waves are usually just called soft, mellow or fat and those are the ones you want until you learn the skills to handle a steep take-off.
Surface conditions is an easy one. The cleaner the better. Speed refers to how quickly the waves go from a rolling swell to a broken wave and also how quickly they break in a sideways direction e. The goal of surfing is to surf across the unbroken wave face so a slow breaking wave is going to make it easier for you as a beginner. Direction is simply left or right. A left breaking wave is one in which the surfer would be going to their left once riding and vice-versa for a right.
You may want to focus on right-handers for a while then move on to lefts after that. Up to you. The Swell is the most important thing to know about as no swell equals no waves to surf. Swell can be thought of as unbroken waves that are rolling through the ocean just looking for a place where the sea-floor gets shallow enough for them to break.
Swells travel huge distances and are essentially created by the high winds of the storms out in the ocean. A ground swell is one that comes from a long way away. A wind swell is caused by more localised winds and they are generally less organised, choppy and short lived. Both types can create great waves to surf, but, ground swell is usually best. Wednesday, Nov Thursday, Nov Friday, Nov Saturday, Nov Nearby spots within 25 km Bid-A-Wee Beach.
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By browsing Magicseaweed, you agree to our use of cookies. We use cookies - find out more. With an incredibly varied coastline and almost every imaginable kind of beach and reef set-up available the UK and Ireland offer a huge variety of waves to the surfer prepared to suffer cold in the winter and a regular battering from strong coastal winds. North Cornwall and Ireland offer the most consistent coastlines, although the variety of rock reef and dominant offshore winds in the North East make the most of every drop of swell.
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