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If you 've ever memorized to ride a bicycle, you might understand a little bit about what it takes to learn to surf. For most people, learning to ride a bike involves an awkward combination of pushing off, trying to balance and steering wildly before falling over. But eventually , you get it, and for most people who learn to ride a bike after a series of falls, that expected value of balancing on two wheels is incredible .

Surfing is similar. It requires balance and coordination, and getting started on a wave involves a key motion known as the pop up. Like the push-off when riding a bike, the pop up is fundamental to riding a wave. Here's what happens :.

The surfboarder leaves from shore and paddles out into the surf while lying on the board.
The surfer floats in the water near the spot where the wave will begin to break.
When a wave comes near, the surfer paddles hard to catch up with it. This step, known as catching the wave, can be tricky, and it requires significant upper-body strength .
From the comfort of there, athletic surfers can perform all kinds of interesting maneuvers. Sometimes they stay just before of the break, allowing the wave to propel them toward the beach. On large waves that break in the shape of a tube, surfers can duck into the barrel itself, disappearing from view in the watery tube. Surfers can move up and down on the wave's face, cut back toward the breaking water or allow their momentum to propel them off of the wave's surface. Seeing that the surfboard is buoyant, surfboarders can land back on the wave and continue to ride it. As good surfers can position themselves on the front of the board, wrapping up all ten of their toes around the board's nose. This is the origin of the term hang ten.
Becoming upright and maneuvering on the wave's leading edge are n't the only parts of surfing that want balance and skill. Paddling out to the line-up, or the area of breakers where the surfers gather to catch a wave, commands balance and strength . It also commands the surfer to understand how waves offend enabling he can decide the best path to take to the line-up. Paddling through the breaking water would be difficult , and it'd lead to the risk of colliding with other surfers. For this reason, surfers paddle toward the lineup in a curved shape that bypasses the breaking water in favor of tranquil waves.

In addition , when paddling during big waves, surfers must move out of the waves' way to keep from being pushed back toward shore. Surfers do this by going under water. A surfer on a longboard ordinarily rolls underneath the board and pulls its nose underwater. Listed here is a turtle roll. Surfers on shortboards, on the other hand, duck dive by pushing the nose of the board underwater and leaning into the wave. Either way, the majority of the wave's face travels over the submerged surfer.

In the next article we'll tell you about the best boards for the right level of your surf ability and the different types of surf boards there are on the surf market today