Choosing wetsuits that are designed for your performance level, your sport, and your climate is really quite important. There is nothing more discouraging than dropping a few hundred dollars on a wetsuit only to find that it chafes, doesn't move in all the wrong places, and isn't the appropriate weight for most of your...
There are some good ones here, and the top 5 are in the right places, but i am not sure about the rest, what do you think? American Football – started in 1869 by the National College league. Baseball – I believe every American has or will have played Baseball once in their life....
It was once the case that the term extreme sports related only to a select few activities. Among those worthy of the accolade included sports such as BMX, base jumping, surfing, white water rafting and a few more. There was an obvious disparity however between the extreme level of even these ‘original sports’. No...
You can find them on almost any beach that has waves, surfers that seem to glow with self-belief and make even the hardest things look easy. I’m sure you’ve asked yourself if it’s something in the water that gives them their confidence or could it be those large surfboards that inflate their self-esteem? Well...
What it is, who it attracts and where to go are topics for this part of our how to surf guide. The sport of surfing involves a surfboard (usually a polyurethane foam core with a fiberglass shell), and you on that board paddling into the surf, looking to catch a wave on its way...
We look at riding waves in this installment of our how to surf guide. The first part of learning how to surf is knowing what waves are right for you. If the wave is too small it won’t be able to carry you onto the shore and you’ll have a difficult time staying upright....
In this part of our guide to how to surf we look at what how you stand up on a surfboard. The first part of learning how to surf is knowing what waves are right for you. A wave that isn’t large enough will not have enough inertia to support you and your board...
What surfing is and why you should try it are the questions looked at in this installment of our guide to how to surf. Surfing is not much different now than it was when it was first conceived by the Polynesian people. Surfers swim out past the shoreline on a surfboard and catch waves...