Surfboard or Sponge?

i do both.

 

i think my forum name says it all

 

Yeah, thankfully, because then you'd have to come on here crying how you watched all the BB'ers get barreled while you sat on the shoulders...


On that note.. +1 BB for me.

 

I never will understand what is so bad about being a bodyboarder. We're all out there to have fun. Some people may have certain conditions from birth which prevent them from surfing, like bad hand eye coordination or balance. Or, it could just be that it's more fun for them, but its definitely not because they are lazy or a waste of a body in the lineup. Not saying this is my case, but I used to struggle with that coordination stuff. I now do both, but still mostly bodyboard. I was pleased with my double surf/BB session on New Years

 

It's also more of a full body swimming workout because you use your legs to kick/propel yourself in the water. I kind of like to think about it as being a frog.

 

The site founder is a bodyboarder and great all around guy who can predict swells fairly accurately, perhaps that is the reason for the large bodyboard following on the site. Most of us ride waves in places that surfers stay on the beach for except the handful of surfers that can handle it.

+1 BB

Good topic if it can stay on track. We all love the water for our own reasons and should stop the hate on our choices of water vehicles.

 

Surf. Started on the sponge though.

 

Bodyboard, theres alot more boyboarders in ocean city then youd think. mostly cus alot of them hang out at the upper streets. the whole bodyboarder and surfer fight thing is stupid in my opinion. Its just people tryin to be hard asses.

 

IMO the surfers that hate on spongers are only hating because spongers paddle circles around them. hense, they suck at surfing.

i personally bodyboard but love to be in the water with anyone that rips on anytype of board whether it be sponge or longboard.

 

I'd much rather be in the water with spongers than longboarders.

 

STAND OUT not up. +1 BB

 

i think i sponged when i was 8. that activity is so half assed....

 

props to the dude that does the forecasting here...its my number 1 resource fa sho

 

I'd surf too if i couldnt bodyboard..lol haha or SUPS lol

 

Ditto and sometimes I go back for sh!ts & gigs.

 

I surf and standup boogie when its waist high...one question for all you bodyboarders, why do pro spongers start surfing?... for example colin h, mcgee, even roach. Don't mean any disrespect (no one from nc bodyboards really and visitors are mellow), just wondering why it's never the other way around. The $$ aspect is probably a reason, or maybe it's the girls . I get sponging if your homebreak is 'area 51' but other than that (its not like we live in west oz) I just don't get it...