Don’t Be a Kook – Surfing Etiquette For Beginners November 29, 2011
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Surfing etiquette – the rules for everyone in the ocean
Beginner surfers, intermediate and advanced, each managed by someone else way down and get back. If you do not look like a crazy, you need to know the rules of conduct for surfing. Read on, to maximize wave count and minimize trouble in the water.
The golden rule: do not let it to someone.
First up or closest to the shoulder (the steeper the better part of the wave) has the right of way. A wave breaks from right, from right to left (viewed from the beach), gives the user who is currently the priority. Do not take away from (or behind for that matter) a user already exists, and horseback riding. Always check before starting.
Winding
If someone is well positioned to catch a wave and paddle around you, if you’re closer to the point where they stole their priority, and it’s tortuous. It is as rude as entering the last beer in the fridge, if someone had their head in Lookin ‘for them.
Call It
If the wave peeled back and forth is going, you can call it “left” or “right” people to know in which direction you move. Let it work for themselves, and they may be wrong.
Nose guard
If you surf a shortboard, you install a nose guard, if you hit someone. Use the leash well and do not let yourself go, if you really are. Security deposit – unless its huge, you run the risk of damage to the boards and bodies. Learn to ride or duck dive and you’ll see that it’s actually easier and you’ll get faster again than if you bail.
Paddling Out
When to paddle, when other surf-waves (beach breaks, usually) to keep you out of the way on this and horseback riding. Head of the warning. In this way, you do not spoil the face or forcing them direction so just make sure you change missed. Watch the waves and surfers will help you learn to anticipate situations.
Flags
Check with the lifeguards on the beach or signs, such as swimming and surfing areas are reported. Do not they shouting through a megaphone. Bodyboarders can not swim between flags, surfers. Surf in the surf zone – could do the rescuers yourself a favor and keep you from streams, or they could put the bathing area, where the tip. In any case, you have to deal with it.
Local
Show respect for the people surfing, day after day break, even if it is shit. Do not get into a huge group. Do not harass them in front of the field, or you can find a little wax your exhaust later … Watch and learn instead – nothing like local knowledge.
Get your fair share
So, how can you avoid your fair share of waves, with all these people and all these laws are followed? The best advice is to go a little further and find a less congested peak. The waves are probably not that great, but you could catch more of them.
Conveyors
The peaks with a small, well-defined area, and many people are waiting for a turn, a sort of queue system sometimes. Comes in an ideal world, the person, the sampling point of starting the next wave for the next available. Whether it or not, they then go on to the back of the line. Wave is missed? Tough. This does not always work in practice, but try to sweet, so that you can not just barge in front of the queue, or miss your turn.
Party-wave
If it’s small and fun, you can paddle a group of friends get wild about each other, the winds and dropping in. It’s fun – if everyone understands what is going on!
Fight
Insults every one of the stock market, and many were fists raised into the water. Not descend to that level. Most people in the water is not the slightest idea what you’re fighting if you end up looking as bad as the other guy. Let him go, there are many waves on the way to our shores, and karma comes around eventually. There is always the odd person who does not know the rules or think that they will not apply to them.
Errors
If you can get in the way, try to apologize. You might stink eye, but at least you said that you are not, my honest! The more experienced you are reading the ocean, surfers and other special places, the less it will happen. And hey, if someone else does it for you, be gracious about it. At least the first time ever!
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