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Ten Tips for Traveling Solo(Comments Off)
There’s a lot to recommend traveling alone. You go where you want, when you want and do what you want. There’s no group decisions or waiting around. It’s the ultimate freedom. On the other hand, extended solo travel can be lonely and sometimes dangerous. Here are 10 tips to keep the solo traveler safe and [...]
Full Story»Duckdiving
Duckdiving — From: Josepi 1 Subject: Re: Wave Ducking (curse it!) Wave ducking seems to be quite on the talk these days in this newsgroup. (I think I started it!!?) But I got quite some cool tips, of which the best is most probably to improve your paddling so that you can paddle fast out [...]
Technique
Here’s an amalgam of technique pointers culled from the Coastalsurvey Water Closet, er, Library of Knowledge: * Look where you will start the turn; know where you will finish the turn * Come back to your balance position between turns * Synchronize the amplitude of your turns with the wave’s speed — you can’t hack [...]
God is a Kook!
Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: God is a kook! Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 I’m sitting outside at my local beach break this morning in this crappy little wind swell, barely longboardable, all by my lonesome. This guy with a beard wearing a neon fullsuit (water temp’s pushing 70) paddles out on a Merrick chip with about [...]