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Longboarder's Start-Up: A Guide to Longboard Surfing (Start-Up Sports series)
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Product Description
Design innovations and a new appreciation for the grace and poise of surfing a longer board has lifted the art of longboarding back into the limelight and more importantly, back into the minds of serious surfers who are looking to expand their wave riding experience. The first-half of this guide covers the basics of longboard equipment, wave selection, courtesy, and surfing technique through standing up. The second part gets into intermediate and advanced longboarding skills including: cross-stepping, trimming, turning, turning maneuvers, essential noseriding, and finally, some of the breathtaking tricks that the pros execute so flawlessly. The key points are brought home with a stripped down text and photos featuring some of the best longboard surfers on earth, including Ted Robinson, Colin McPhillips, Jeff Kramer and Mark Stewart.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #353424 in Books
- Published on: 1996-08-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Doug Werner is the author of several books in the Start-Up Sports series, including Bowler's Start-Up, Boxer's Start-Up, Golfer's Start-Up, and Snowboarder's Start-Up. He has been interviewed on CNN, and his books have appeared on ESPN. He lives in San Diego, California.
Customer Reviews
Great Book
I highly recommend this book for people getting started in the world of long boarding. Lot of good information.
Overall, a very good book for novices.
After reading the others reviews, I was a little hesitant to order the book so I found the book at a local store and flipped through it. I liked it and bought it.
I've been surfing for about 9 months and was looking for guidance learning to cross-step and ride the nose. I'd tried to search the web but all I found was information on longboard skateboards. Although it's simliar, there are some big differences, so I ended up buying the book.
The book gave me the instruction I was looking for regarding how to position my board in the wave and my feet on the board during cross-stepping and nose-riding. It also gave me some good points on surfing waves in general and turning. I found the more advanced tricks a little harder to understand but I think I have the concepts down and am looking forward to trying them out.
I think some of the other reviewers were a little hard on the book for its "lingo." Like any specialty, surfing has its own vocabulary and in order to describe it succinctly you might need to learn a few new words, so be it.
Overall, I think this is a very good book for a novice.
OK... But
This book was really only of moderate usefullness. I got better information at my local surf shop.
