What got you started?

by **sinistapenguin** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 2:19 pm

Just thought I'd start a thread to see what it was that triggered people to start surfing.

Did you watch 'Point Break' and think, that looks cool?
Did you see someone surfing at a beach and want to try?
Were you roped into it by friends?

I have been racking my brains and I think for me it was this: I was into my skateboarding at the time and my parents recorded Big Wednesday when it was on Moviedrome on BBC2! (This must have been 1990 and I still have the tape!!) They only let me watch the end - Big Wednesday itself.

The next thing I know I bought myself a board, having only ever tried it once before. My best friend bought a board too and we were hooked within hours!

So come on, what triggered you to get out there?

Sinista

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by **kieran** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 3:07 pm

did you ask this question to get to 100 posts

by **saffasurfer7** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 3:41 pm

Yeah....sneaky... :wink:

Well, I'll answer your post for you. Ummmm, guess it helps growing up in South Africa where all you ever see are surfers, almost all my brothers surfed and every day you were at the beach it was swarmed with surfers. Makes you wonder how come I never tried it in SA but only when I came over to cold England....beats me, guess I'm just a bit on the mad side. :roll:

Anyway, always having wanted to try surfing but never having got round to it (think the whole great white sharks circling the waters in SA kinda put me off a bit and strong currents too) made me get my first go when I went to visit my bro in Jersey.

He's an avid surfer and always has been since I can remember. I go see him every year in Jersey. A month to go and I'm there again...YAY!!! :D Anyway, he had two surfboards and two wetsuits knockin about the house and we were down at the beach one day, there were relatively small waves but it looked good and he said "fancy pickin up the surfboards and giving it a go?" I was like, DUH!!! What are we waiting for? So, needless to say I had my first experience out in Jersey and got hooked. I've been a strong swimmer all my life and LOVE the water, I grew up in water. So I was pretty good at the paddling thing and have pretty good balance so could do the sitting on the board thing straight away etc. I was LOVING it and promised myself i would return to Newcastle and get the gear together to get started. Only took me a year, but that included getting my driver's license and affording all the gear. So now I'm a keen surfer who is well into it. Oh, and watching "Blue Crush" over and over again totally got me in the mood every time. Kept me keen while I was learning to drive and buying the equipment bit by bit. Of course, what previously also helped was all the other films... The Endless Summer and Endless Summer II, Point Break and Big Wednesday.

There we go, I always land up writing essays...why is that?

by **sinistapenguin** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 4:00 pm

Hey, I hadn't even realised that was my 100th post - wahey, looks like I'm finally a surfer then.

No, really, I was interested to find out what gets people interested. I've just been reading the history of surfing on a website and basically it's amazing that it survived after the explorers discovered Hawaii.

Basically the missionaries convinced (almost) everyone that surfing was the devil's work and shouldn't be done.

The 'haole' all but wiped out Hawaiian culture, so I was keen to see what it was that kept surfing alive!

Cheers

Sinista

by **leolivi** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 4:12 pm

I used to skateboard,(and still do a litle) so i was already thinking about surf, that is skateboard´s origin. Then i broke my wrist, witch is fine, the pain was not so bad, and the cast was bad but that would not stop me from skateboarding, if i was not a classical guitar studant trying to get into university to do music. I can´t afford to break some bones one a year ot every two years, so i started surfing. It seems impossible to me to live without the sensation or carving around with some board...

by **freaky_welsh_chick** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 5:51 pm

i really don't know what first got me interested in surfing, but i can remember thinking it was soooo cool, since i was really little, and wen i was 10 i got a chance to try it in newquay and have been totally hooked since :)

by **TokyotheKid** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:14 pm

i think it was a mix for me, i liked Z Boys in long beach, so that was cool to watch their old videos skating and stuff, thennn i liked how chicks are into surfers ;)

by **JRR** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:04 am

i'm new to this forum. well i started doing boogy boarding or whatever u call it about 5 years ago with a bunch of m8's when we were in skool but than stopped for about 2 years and when i started again i sukked so i decided to give surfing a shot and it is a lot more fun!

by **sinistapenguin** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 2:37 pm

I've just remembered an earlier surfing experience of mine.

I was in France on holiday with my parents (aged 10 or 11) and some friends of theirs had a basement full of Windsurfs. In amongst them was a surfboard they had made.

One day I asked to borrow it and lugged it all the way down the beach.

My brother held it in the water while I climbed onto it in a standing postition (holding on to his head). When the next wave came, he pushed me into it and that was it. I rode my first wave to the beach without having to pop up!!

Wow, hidden memories!

Sinista

by **Malibu Barbie** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 4:27 pm

I just thought it was the coolest thing ever, ever since I was a little kid! And then I saw Point Break....then I was majorly hooked! It's just the best sport ever and I love it. Not that I'm actually any good as i only got the guts to try it last year, but hey! I'm working on it! I love Bodhi!!! ahem. sorry - yes, i know he's fictional...! Later, Barbie x

by **Crazzy_Nat** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 12:41 am

I have always been a bodyboarder and my brother started up surfing and i thought it looked like awesome fun!! so... I gave it a go and i was right!
...Plus i have always lived right near beaches so .. i'm naturaly a beach goer..

by **eesalou** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:55 am

well, it was actually my sister who got me into surfing.

ever since i can remember, she's talked about surfing adn how good she was gonna be at it, and she did reports on surfing and all that stuff, but never really tried until we went to Hawaii for spring break. I always thought it was cool, and thought it would be fun to try, but never thought i would get this hooked, but i really wanted to try it when we got to Hawaii, but didn't tell anyone, for fear of crushing her dreams. when my parents asked if we wanted to go surfing Tori was like "of course!!" and i was just like, "well, if Tori doesn't mind me going along too", cause i didn't want her to think i was just doing it because she was. but when i tried it, i felt really comfortable on the board, and even got some turning down. I've become addicted to it! but i feel bad, because tori always talked about loving surfing and how good she was going to be at it, and then i go and take her place about loving surfing. so i don't think that i'll go surfing agian anytime soon, because i don't want her to think that i am a copy cat.

well, you probably didn't want to hear that and don't pay any attention to it......the moral of the story is........that i was addicted to surfing after feeling comfortable on the board in my surf lesson (that's the only part you need to read!)

by **Crazzy_Nat** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:41 am

If you love surfing so much don't give it up just coz your sister will think your a copy cat.... get out there when you can if your in love with it!!!... you sound like a good brother.

by **freaky_welsh_chick** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:05 am

lol, eesalou is a girl!!!!

by **Crazzy_Nat** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:27 am

lol!.... oh sorry!!............. *Embarassed smiley*..

Anyway you sound like a good sister hehe...

by **eesalou** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:31 am

Jeez! how come everone thinks i'm a guy!!! naw, i don't mind, i know what you mean, and thanks for the compliment.

and hey, my sis is going down to Kentucky for college next year, so i'll be the only kid at home for a while!

by **sinistapenguin** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:31 am

If your sister really loves surfing, then she would want you to keep it up.

I'm trying to get my Dad into it this year!!

I'd like everyone I know to get into it.

Sinista

by **Guest** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 9:29 am

surfings crayzee..we're all on this site cos we think that ofcourse
an omg. i love that movie/documentry biggest wendsday! its crayzee.
id say my brother got me into surfing..he was like my idol when i was little
everything he did i did (man i musta bin so annoying!)
so i started surfing. he got pist off when i ended up being better then him but oh well. what can ya do?

by **Guest** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:30 pm

well, i got started because i used to have a boyfriend that surfed and i always wanted to try and he never showed me. so when i broke up i asked a friend to show me the basics, and from then on I fell in love with it!!!!

by **iris** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:31 pm

Anonymous wrote:well, i got started because i used to have a boyfriend that surfed and i always wanted to try and he never showed me. so when i broke up i asked a friend to show me the basics, and from then on I fell in love with it!!!!

ok, that was me not logged! :oops:

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