It's show time! Get on board!
- Basically there is no rule for body boarding. However it does have body boarding etiquette.
- One shouldn’t go between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., as the sun is most intense during that time, and it is easy to get sunburned.
- For beginners it is best to avoid practicing too close to surfers, as they might run you over.
- Be sure you are familiar with some basic surfing rules.
- Dropping in a wave another surfer is surfing, for example, can be dangerous, because you might collide with each other. Generally, the surfer who is nearest the breaking part or peak of a wave has the right of way.
- Beginners should also pay attention to the tides.During low tide, bodyboarding can be dangerous because the reef is closer to the surface and its sharp rocks can cut careless bodyboarders to pieces.
- If one gets cut, no matter how small, the first thing to do is get out of the water before you attract sharks. Then disinfect the wound because the coral reef is a living animal and bacteria or coral cells in the wound can easily cause an infection.
- Prior to 1971, bodyboards were made from wood or fiberglass and foam, and called paipo boards (pronounced PIPE-OH). Paipos made from wood generally do not have fins, but fiberglass/foam boards usually do.
- it is much shorter and made out of foam.
- The core is made up from dow/polyethylene , arcel or, more recently, polypropylene .
- Some boards contain one or two rods (usually of carbon or graphite) called stringers to strengthen the board, reduce deformation, and add stiffness and recoil to the core, giving greater speed from bottom turns.
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