Surfing
Paddle Boarding and Surfing in Oceanside
Oceanside is a mecca for surfers and paddle boarders. It is a great place to learn and excellent for experienced surfers and paddle boarders. The Harbor in Oceanside is calm and safe for beginner paddle boarders. The ocean has a wide variety of surf for beginners and advanced surfers. Paddle boarding is simple in calm [...]
What You Can Do in the Water in Oceanside
Oceanside is a mecca of outdoor activities and many of them are in the water. The ocean allows a lot of opportunities to explore and there are lessons for most of these sports. Learn now and make Oceanside a frequent visiting destination. Surfing is the top local sport and one reason is that there are [...]
Improving Your Oceanside Wave Catching Ability
Catching waves is one of the most important steps in surfing and yet the beginner would never think it is as tricky as it is in reality. You can’t ride if you can’t catch a wave. The beginners have an easy time catching foam, but once they start to look for real waves they can’t [...]
Surf the Corners at Oceanside Beach Breaks
Surfers need to match the waves they ride with their skills and experience. Beginners ride foam until they have learned the pop up and riding stability. Then beginners become intermediates when they can ride down the faces of real waves and catch waves at an angle. Then you want to combine riding down faces and [...]
Learning to Surf at the Oceanside Harbor or Pier
Learning to surf is one of life’s big adventures for so many people who visit Oceanside. Many do it on a birthday that they think is significant. I taught a young boy from Cleveland, Ohio that had his whole room in surf decor and had never seen the ocean. People in their 50′s often take [...]
What You Can Do In a Day at Oceanside
There is nothing like waking up at the beach. If you are close enough, you can hear the ocean, but there is also the fresh ocean air and maybe the morning breeze. Most people want to walk and take a look out to the horizon and see what is happening. Man feels better by the [...]
The Bonus Card Saves Tourists Money in Oceanside
Oceanside is a mecca for outdoor activities. It is also a great place for dining, happy hours, sports bars, Micro Brewery visiting, karaoke, and chilling. Out door activities include almost everything you can do in the ocean and many things you would not think of finding in Oceanside. With the Oceanside Bonus Card you save [...]
The Right Surf Boards for Surfing Oceanside
Oceanside has a wide variety of surf and after you have surfed here for awhile, you probably know what you like best. At the beginning you are trying to get better and probably work into a shorter board. The beginner wants a board with high volume because it is the most fun. It is the [...]
Taking a Surfing or Paddle Board Lesson in Oceanside
Oceanside is a great place for both surf and paddle board lessons. Learning to surf is best at the Oceanside Pier because there is almost always a good foam wave for beginners. The Harbor in Oceanside is great for paddle boarding because the water is calm and there is a lot to look at while [...]
Accelerating in Surfing Begins All Maneuvers
Every book you read about surfing, competitor or instructor you listen to will tell you speed is crucial for advanced surfing. It takes speed to out race the falling lip and get to the pocket where maneuvers are performed. It takes speed to make the maneuvers. Speed starts with the take off on the wave. [...]
How the Hands Are Important in Surfing
The hands are very important in surfing as part of the upper body construct that helps guide our feet and then the surfboard. As in golf where the hands grip the tool of the trade, how the hands, shoulders, and head move with the swing are crucial. Yes, surfing is almost like golf. A friend [...]
Intermediate to Advanced Surfing in Oceanside
Surfers in Oceanside experience waves that are fast and often closed out. A few lessons in Hawaii does not prepare you for the Oceanside wave. As a sand bar beach as opposed to a reef break, the bottom shifts constantly and the waves break in many different places based on the swell and as the [...]
Why Beginner Surfers Fall Off Their Board
In my surf lessons, I tell the student what they are supposed to do to go from a prone position to standing on their surf boards. Easier said than done. They hear what I say and could probably recite it back to me, but their body has not learned the muscle memory necessary to complete [...]
Surf Paddling More Effectively
The real work in surfing is the paddling. It requires surf specific muscles that even the Marines I teach don’t have. Push ups and weights alone are clearly not enough to give you paddling stamina. It takes being in the water and burning and rebuilding the muscles. This is one reason that you want to [...]
