Download or read book Natural Surf Technique written by Frank Caronna and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book with the confidence of 25 years teaching and coaching surfing and feel I have established a technique that will help beginner to intermediate surfers learn and reach their potential faster while staying safe and respectful to other surfers and the ocean. I have used my techniques to help surfers of all levels while keeping in mind the different body types people have and hope you enjoy the techniques and teachings the book provides. You can view the slide up technique and a few other things I teach in the book on YouTube under Natural Surf Technique to better help you understand and connect the techniques better. Enjoy and better safer surfing, Frank Caronna(Author owner and surf coach for Natural Surf Technique)

Download or read book Surf Lesson Tips written by Jacinto Picco and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer, uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Do you remember your thundering heartbeat on that first BIG day? Or the pure joy of those early morning paddle-outs with your original set of surf buddies? Or the uncertainty of splashing into a 45-degree winter ocean while encased in more rubber than the Creature from the Black Lagoon\?Then spin your board around and drop into this captivating set of surf stories. But don't worry if you've never climbed into a Michelin Man-like layer of neoprene for a wintertime wave fix. All you need to enjoy Surf Lessons is your sense of adventure and a sense of humor. And be ready to shake the sand from your trunks and the water from your ears as you turn the final page.

Download or read book Learn to Surf for Beginners written by Nigel Potts and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Longboarder s Start up written by Doug Werner and published by Tracks Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design innovations and a new appreciation for the grace and poise of surfing a longer board has lifted the art of longboarding back into the limelight and, more importantly, back into the minds of serious surfers who are looking to expand their wave riding experience. In the first half, Longboarder's Start-Up covers the basics of longboard equipment, wave selection, courtesy, and surfing technique through standing up. The second part gets into intermediate and advanced longboarding skills including: cross-stepping and trimming, turning maneuvers, essential noseriding and, finally, some of the breathtaking tricks that the pros execute so flawlessly. The key points are brought home with a stripped down text and photos featuring some of the best longboard surfers on earth, including Ted Robinson, Colin McPhillips, Jeff Kramer and Mark Stewart.

Download or read book Everything a Beginner Surfer Needs to Know written by Steve Lau and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why You Should Read This Guide : I caught the surfing bug after the first time I got on a board. There is no better rush than dropping down a wave and zipping across it. Being in control on a wave that is inherently uncontrollable is like no other feeling. Over the past few years I've surfed around the world and have gone to surf schools in five different countries. I'm not writing this as an expert surfer, but rather as a student who has had the benefit of surfing lessons from countless instructors with varied styles and numerous techniques. My biggest take away from all this instructional experience is that 90% of these instructors are terrible at teaching beginners! Language barriers aside, they are often too far removed from what it is like to be a beginner or don't have the ability to effectively communicate what has become second nature to them. The lack of good instruction turns people away from surfing and even worse, has caused terrible accidents due to poor safety practices. I myself have a permanent 6 inch scar across my chest from my second time surfing! I decided to write this beginners guide as a collection of the best tips and lessons that I've received over the years. This guide is meant to be a short and easy read for beginner surfers and will dramatically increase the fun factor, help you actually get up on the board, and decrease your chances of getting hurt. This fifteen minutes of reading will tell you everything that I wish I knew before I started surfing and lays out the lessons I learned the hard way." - p.1-3

Download or read book Surfing Uncertainty written by Andy Clark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exciting new theories in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence are revealing minds like ours as predictive minds, forever trying to guess the incoming streams of sensory stimulation before they arrive. In this up-to-the-minute treatment, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark explores new ways of thinking about perception, action, and the embodied mind.

Download or read book Wingnut s Complete Surfing written by Robert Weaver and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-05-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a world-class expert and one of the sport’s greatest legends comes the only total guide for surfing Surfing is a sport that anyone can pick up and enjoy with the right instruction. Yet many how-to books fail to address crucial basics such as wave dynamics, board design and performance, and strategies for paddling out through the wave breaks. Wingnut’s Complete Surfing covers all this and more, providing you with a complete guide.

Download or read book Surf Lessons written by Nona Jordan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling drained, strained or just plain stuck? You can learn to ride the waves of your beautiful life with more play and ease. Master Life Coach Nona Jordan collected these 13 lessons from the powerful experience of learning to surf while living in Hawai'i. If you usually put everything and everyone else first, give this gift to yourself: Set aside time to explore the lessons and activities in Surf Lessons and experience real results in your own life: less fear and more trust clearer intentions purposeful actions instinctual joy From Stop Waiting through Finding Your Treasures, these essays and invitations are rich with metaphors and interpretations. You'll meet opportunities to connect deeply to your body and your divinity, explore the fullness of the present moment, and embrace a state of magnetism, joy and unbridled energy for yourself - whether you live near the sea or not. "Surf Lessons is an invitation, an awakening, a passionate call to action. It helps readers ask the right questions about what stops us from allowing ourselves to coast, to float, to enjoy the variable ride...and to discover that it is completely within them to do so." -Pixie Lighthorse Learn how to change pain and suffering to pleasure, play and desire: First Lesson: Stop Waiting Lesson Two: Terror and Excitement Hold Hands on the Beach Lesson Three: Drop the Conditions Lesson Four: Paddle Out Into the Waves Lesson Five: Choose Lesson Six: Play at Your Edges Lesson Seven: Finding the Treasure Lesson Eight: Full Presence Required Lesson Nine: Never the Same Lesson Ten: Trust Your Rhythm Lesson Eleven: This is Home Lesson Twelve: The Wave Will Tell You How to Ride It Lesson Thirteen: It Is All for You "To be the person you are meant to be in this day and age of possibility and promise -- your creative energy, your light and your clarity are needed most." - Nona Jordan Discover how connecting to Nature helps you connect to your natural abundance: your inner wealth of riches that fully support you in all areas of life if allowed by you. Engaging in deep play facilitates access to states of consciousness where your deepest knowing resides. You'll discover a new sensuous connection to your true nature that empowers and energizes.

Download or read book Surfing written by Elliott Almond and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CLICK HERE to download a sample chapter from Surfing * Covers gear, fitness, safety, lingo, and rules of the water * Includes basic to intermediate techniques, surf culture, and competitive surfing * Author is an award-winning journalist and life-long surfer Surfing's not just for rebels anymore: anyone with the desire to ride a wave is grabbing a board and heading to the beach. Each year, this artform-cum-sport gains popularity as business executives, grandmas, teenagers, coastal dwellers, and adventure travelers get stoked to catch swells. This new guidebook by sports writer and waterman Elliott Almond is a primer for the uninitiated as well as a handbook for the experienced ready to build on their fundamental skills. Covering topics ranging from basic surfing techniques to surfing fitness prep (including exercises to get your arms ready for all that paddling and stretches to keep you limber) and from history, surf culture, and a complete explanation of gear, to how to find the right board for you, this book also features insights from industry leaders, pro surfers, and instructors. With more than three decades of surfing experience to share, Almond offers clear, authoritative guidance to help those venturing into uncharted waters find their way safely and confidently.

Download or read book Fluid Surfer written by Michelle Drielsma and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Barbarian Days written by William Finnegan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List “Without a doubt, the finest surf book I’ve ever read . . . ” —The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses—off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly—he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui—is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan’s travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.

Download or read book Surfing written by Top That! and published by Top That! Kids. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive new series of handy-sized reference books. Each title has 48 pages packed with photographs, illustrations, cartoons and plenty of informative text. The series covers a multitude of topics and hobbies. Hobby titles will intrigue beginners and allow them to master a new skill. These titles also provide interest for readers with some prior knowledge, as each spread focuses upon new tactics, skills, insider tips and tricks of the trade.

Download or read book Reality Transurfing written by Vadim Zeland and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transurfing Reality was one of the top non-fiction bestsellers in the world in 2005 and 2006. Unknown till now in the West, the series has sold over 1,300,000 copies in Russia in three years. This translation (by Natasha Micharina) describes a new way of looking at reality, indeed of creating it. It provides a scientific explanation of the laws that help you do this, building up a scientific model, speaking in detail about particular rules to follow and giving important how-to tips, illustrated with examples. The author introduces a system of specific terms, notions, and metaphors, which together make a truly convincing, thought-provoking theory of creating your own life. “You are ruled by circumstances and it will always be like that until you learn how to manage your reality,” says the author. Bringing together the cutting edge of modern science and philosophical teaching, the book's style is popular-scientific, metaphorical and conversational. Books in the series: Reality Transurfing 1: The Space of Variations; Reality Transurfing 2: A Rustle of Morning Stars; Reality Transurfing 3: Forward to the Past; Reality Transurfing 4: Ruling Reality; Reality Transurfing 5: Apples Fall to the Sky

Download or read book Surf Science written by Tony Butt and published by Alison Hodge Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered where surf­ing waves come from, what makes every wave dif­fer­ent, why some peel per­fectly and oth­ers just close out; why, some days, the waves come in sets and other days they don’t, and how the tides, the wind and the shape of the sea floor affect the waves for surf­ing? If you have, this book is for you. Now in its third edi­tion, Surf Sci­ence is the first book to talk in depth about the sci­ence of waves from a surfer’s point of view. It fills the gap between surf­ing books and waves text­books, and will help you learn how to pre­dict surf. Surf Sci­ence is also a use­ful intro­duc­tion to ocean­o­graphy and the sci­ence of waves. You don’t need a sci­entific back­ground to read it – just curi­os­ity and a fas­cin­a­tion for waves.

Download or read book Mindfulness and Surfing written by Sam Bleakley and published by Leaping Hare Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindfulness and Surfing casts a fresh perspective on this popular sport, and explores how riding the waves can be the ultimate meditation. Engaging author Sam Bleakley takes us on a soulful journey across the tideline of his personal and philosophical travels. Through lunar cycles and river surfing to the Taoism of nature, he reveals an acute awareness of what the oceans can tell us about our place in the natural world. Meditating on one of natureâ??s greatest elements â?? its salty swells, flow and peaks â?? he shares life lessons in mindfulness that will be relished by surfer and non-surfer alike.

Download or read book The Kook s Guide to Surfing written by Jason Borte and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Move over, dude! The Kook’s Guide to Surfing shows what it means to be a real surfer. This clever, often hilarious guide shares with kooks (those guys on surfboards who just don’t get it yet) the truths and know-how of a lifelong wave-lover. The secret: surfing responsibly and sharing the waves. You don’t have to be “too cool for school” to be cool in the water. But surfing like a pro isn’t just about courtesy, and neither is The Kook’s Guide to Surfing. The ultimate guide to great surfing, it’s got tips on choosing the right board for the right wave, stances and paddling, avoiding injuries and staying safe, and—once all that has been mastered—how and where to show off your skills in the big competitions. Other topics include: First lessons and helpful tips Physical fitness Types of waves Surf etiquette Buying surfboards An index of the best surf locations Filled with witty illustrations, a glossary of surfing terminology, and fun “Hey, Kook!” trivia, The Kook’s Guide to Surfing will turn even the greenest beginners into knockout surfing pros.

Download or read book Surf Survival written by Andrew Nathanson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three expert physicians/surfers trained in emergency medicine, sports medicine, and family medicine explain everything you need to know to stay safe in the water. Whether you’re a novice or an expert, an SUPer or a bodyboarder, Surf Survival is the only book that every surfer must have in his or her backpack, car, and beach house. This practical handbook explains everything from how to reduce a shoulder dislocation to understanding waves and currents, from how to treat jellyfish stings to how to apply a tourniquet. Whether you are surfing a crowded beach in California or a remote island in Indonesia, be prepared to handle surfing-related emergencies from hypothermia and drowning to wound care and infections. Topics include: • Fitness for surfers • Prevention and rehabilitation of common overuse injuries • Wilderness first aid • Surviving the sun • Surf-travel medicine • Surviving big surf • SUP • Surfer's ear • And much, much more! Written by three expert physician surfers, packed with color photos and illustrations, this is the authoritative medical guide for surfers and watermen.