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Sitting On Your Board

If you have seen surfers when they are beyond the breaking waves, waiting for their next wave, you may have noticed that they are no longer lying prone on their surfboards but are sitting up on them. This is to enable a surfer to get a better look at the oncoming waves. The next thing to learn is how to sit up on your board, and get ready to paddle for a wave from this sitting up position.

Lie on your surfboard in the paddling position as though you have just paddled to the line-up. When you are comfortably balanced. Take hold of your board with both hands, one on each rail, as if you were getting ready to do a push up. Draw the board from underneath you, pulling it forward through your legs.

As the board is sliding underneath you (making sure that you do not let go - your surfboard will ping out in front of you as if it had a mind of it's own) bring your knees up and arch your back into a sitting position. Here, as with everything else in surfing, it is a question of practising balance. To smoothly sit up on your surfboard as the waves are rolling past you takes practice.

Good Surfer
Don't be put off
by how easy some
surfers make it look!

Use your legs out on either side of the surfboard to aid your balance and hold yourself upright. Lean too far to the left or right and you will fall off your board. Lean too far forward and the surfboard will disappear out behind your - make sure you have got your mouth closed for this one!. Lean too far back and we encounter that torpedo effect again. After a little practice you will soon become competent at getting into the sitting position.

Once you get the hang of this you will be zipping up and down the beach wowing everyone watching from the shore. You are now ready for the next step which is how to go from Sitting to Paddling Your Surfboard.

 

 

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