Why bodyboarding is better than surfing

So jeff hubbard/mike stweart ect. shredding up teahpoo or pipe is just like walking eh?

 

I'm not sure I even know what this means. I've done all four of the things listed above, (including surfing for the last 30 years) and would say surfing is among the easier of the four. Certainly easier than skimming.

 

This is so silly. The trolls are alive and being fed. lol.....I'm not sure what skim boarding has to do with anything. I agree it's more difficult than surfing. Then again I'd prefer to surf over skim board. Another example of something not having to be the most difficult to be fun.

 

As much as I agree w/ the pointlessness and redundancy of this discussion, part of me feels that’s a cop out and compelled to defend my way. Just a few random thoughts…chopes, ours, shark island, shippies, every other heavy slab pioneered by spongers; more and deeper barrel time; bigger moves on critical sections(ie/ MS at pipe, Hubb boosting at 12 ft puerto, sections where it just can’t be done on a hpsb); can throw tail and rail just as hard on the knee. Just a few examples imo of whats appealing to me about sponging. In terms of what I actually personally enjoy…feeling more in tune w/ the wave, barrels, gunning down the line head first and hitting the lip w/ my entire being(has a more kamikaze feel for me), the loose skatey feel of dk vs. standing up, getting pretty much every wave I want, and much more.
Is bodyboarding easier to learn than surfing, sure, but both take many many years to master. And I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm sure there's a surf kayaker out there reading this furiously right now, but it's just silly to say that high performance bodyboarding requires no skill or knowledge. And some(not all, you know I love you guys) of you standup guys have a god complex. Obviously popping up is critical, but it’s a small piece of the puzzle, and it’s not extremely hard, I mean kids could do it. And I speak from experience, I’ve surfed, and when I earned there were no fun shapes or internet, it was either a log or sb and I took the steeper learning curve. All I’m saying is that we’re all drawn to waves and that’s what it’s about, whatever it is you’re riding...if you're busy hating, you're definitely not gleaming the cube dudes.

Half day then I'm off to the mountains for a couple days, you fellers be good.

Oh yeah, done feeding the trolls, b/c in all reality, this is never an issue in the water, at least in my experience.

 

you SERIOUSLY think surfing is easier than snowboarding??????

 

So, I am a little curious as to what it's like when a boogie boarder finally gets up the courage to call his parents and let them know that he is homosexual....

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Just kidding =)

 

They don't need flaming, they're bodyboarders, they're already flaming!

 

I have to admit that I do have a sponge that I break out every once in a while.

 

disclaimer: Whatever gets you amped up and in the water is cool with me...

And yes, there are dudes going big on slabs and stuff... But any of those waves are easily being towed into now and are being surfed by surfers... It is what it is. Being a professional body boarder certainly requires so skill and dedication, but come on everyone. To compare traditional surfing, especially high performance shortboarding to boogie boarding is just silly.... The level of skill and technique is not even in the same realm. yes, both are sports that require wave riding etc... Next time I see a guy on a boogie board make sportcenters top ten, I may stand to be corrected.

But again, whatever makes you happy and get in the water... But my 6 year old niece was able to angle and ride down the wave face all the way to shore within about 12 minutes of first touching a boogie board.... She was not out busting airs, but I have seen kids doing little barrel rolls on their first day every in the water... The mechanics of it all are just very simple.

Thats like the snowboarding comment. Yes, if you are riding in super pipe and hucking ridiculous airs, then yes, snow boarding is hard... But I will never forget the first time i snowboarded. I was about 13. I started on the bunny slope, and by the end of the day, I had ridden a double black diamond 3 times. I fell once or twice, but still... If you can do little air grabs and go over table tops with some speed on your first day, I would say once again that snowboarding (basic and generally speaking) is not even in the same realm as surfing...

Like skating and any other board sport, if you can by a ski pass and go at the same jump or the same run, over, and over and over all day until you master it... its just plain easier... Snowboarding and skiing are just like any other individual sport. Track and field. Anything.. Because its repetition. over. and over. and over...

boogie boarding is like surfing in that regard, but thats about the only similarity, besides riding wave faces.

 

Bodyboarding isn't better than surfing, but bodyboards are better than surfboards. Now, you probably won't notice the difference if you're a stay-at-home gnome and never travel more than a few hours from your homebreak, but if you do any significant amount of surf travel, you'll come to recognize the truth of my words.

Bodyboards are pretty much indestructible compared to surfboards. Not only do they survive heavy conditions better, but they also survive all the insults of backpacking around the world in pursuit of surf. After starting out in the UK, I gave up the ghost when my 3rd and final glass spear ended up with two unrepairable pressure dings courtesy of the Basque railway to Mundaka. Sfter that I reverted to a pair of esky lids which handily survived the med, agean, Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific with just a few minor insults. I carelessly rode right over reefs in the ments and rocks in the Maldives which would have de-skegged and gutted my fiberglass surfboards like a sushi chef.

My world travelling boogers are now stashed on my secret island paradise. When I last visited, one hab become a home for a mess of wasps, but the darn thing still rode just as well as the day I bought it.

More locally, my lid sits in the back of my car along with my wetsuit and fins, ready to paddle at a moments notice. I dont have to worry about melting wax, or where to squeeze in the groceries. I live a mile from my home break, and more often than not, my backup sponge is what I sling over my shoulder when I ride down for a dawn patrol. At lunch, except for rare occasions, its my bodyboard thats ready to rocky, while my thruster sits on its rack in my garage, gathering dust.

I love surfing just like I love any kind of wave riding, but for the sake of getting as many waves whenever, whereever, you cant beat the boogie life!

 

love it.
I know lots of bodyboarders. they are called women and men make the sex on them

 

Well said I must say...

 

weird seeing stuff you wrote like a year ago. Its like listening to someone else. I don't know who dug this thread up but its a good one. This is a first. I have never replied to myself.

 

Who has the cooler fins?

 

bb is so easy,thats why u can buy a 5$ board at shoprite.imagine if they had $5 surfboards stacked up outside.i think bodyboarding is cheating,if ur not gonna surf,go bodysurf.having a floatie and fins on,what could possibly go wrong.I don't think I ever heard an epic wipeout story from a sponger,except the one in Tahiti that wasselhoff dropped in on.its usually people who tried to surf and failed,so they start sponging.all u have to do is lay there and kick.people make fun of surfers who wear webbed gloves,so why not hate on spongers.

at the end of the day surfing is much harder and technical than sponging.leave the boggy boards for the kids.sponges should be reserved for shorebreaks.

 

Im not gonna lie, skimboarding is way more hardcore than surfing if you're talking about it at the professional level. But boogie boarding is for people who aren't athletic enough to surf or have some sort of physical injury (back, knee, etc.) that doesn't allow them to surf. I'm not saying it's not fun as hell because it is, but there's basically no skill involved, anyone can lay down on their stomach.

 

this useless thread was dug up courtesy of "sponger42", it was his second post..........

btw sponging sux

peace

 

A girl with one arm surfs, you guys aren't that special. We are the all-singing all-dancing crap of the world.

 

Isn't fun the whole purpose? Or are you trying to prove something? lol

So why not just go on the iba world tour, head to pipe and take hubbard's title? Have you ever even been in waves like that?

 

I find the best/most fun waves to ride are not death barrels, but a pure surfers wave. High performance fast A-frame barrels that are totally makeable.