Beware of deep channels, bite in steep barrel!
g.u.i.d.e.l.i.n.e.s
- The basic technique of bodyboarding is easy.
- While paddling out, head and chest shouldn’t touch the board.
- The hips should touch the back edge of the board.
- It is most efficient to keep the fins underwater when kicking.
- When catching a wave, the elbows should be kept on the board and not drag in the water.
- Beginners often find it exhausting to paddle out when the waves are big. They get carried back when the waves wash over them.
- An effective method of avoiding the thrust of the waves is called duckdiving, which means diving under the wave.
- It is best done when the whitewash of the wave is about 6 feet away.
- To execute this method, one has to grab the board between the nose and the midpoint of the board and push all the upper body weight onto the hands until the nose of the board sinks.
- Then one has to use one knee to push the tail of the board under the water.
- Body and board should be as much under the water as possible.
s.t.y.l.e.s
- A form of wave riding using a foam bodyboard. Bodyboarders predominantly ride prone on their stomachs though they can also be ride in a half-standing stance with one knee touching the board known as ‘dropknee’.
- The standard tricks were spinners (360 spin) on the wave face either in normal or reverse direction, cut backs and the bodyboarding trademark El Rollo.
- Todays bodyboarders still go for style but they draw tighter lines and involve a montage of tricks on the one wave.
- Predominant moves such as inverts.
- forward and reverse spins in the air.
- reverse spins on the face.
- spins in the barrel.
- Air Roll Spins and backflips.
