Is bodyboarding as fun as surfing? Why or why not?

Question

Is bodyboarding as fun as surfing? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Well... what u have is a very hard question.  I am a bodyboarder, but have also surfed before, so I know what they both feel like.  Bodyboarding is much easier to learn, easier to do tricks, and has a more variety of tricks.  With bodyboarding, u can just do it newhere from an occasional person who just goes to the beach and has fun, to riding 20 foot shore break and doing flips.  Surfing is much harder, obviously, because u have to stand up.  This makes the riding itself more fun, but harder learn, and it limits what u can do.  With surfing, to learn a trick u have to practice a LOT and be very good.  And the waves u can ride for surfing have to be much more select.  

So, really, bodyboarding can be as fun as surfing or even more, it just depends on the person and the attitude they have.

Answer 2

Not even close. Surfing is WAY more fun simply because a surfboard allows you to do more in the water than you can through bodyboarding.

The feeling of standing up, carving a wave, gaining speed, and using that board to work the ocean is so much more than simply using your body to ride a wave for a few seconds.

If you've never tried it you need to get on a surfboard and feel it for yourself.

Answer 3

it's a h**l of a lot easier so you can have fun sooner. In fact you can go out on day 1 as a body boarder and start catching waves. Now with surfing is paddling, paddling, paddling, missing and misjudging waves, and then tryng to stand up.. In fact just to halfway know what your doing- you have to go out every day for a year.

Good luck- nothing quite like that glide.

I like body surfing

Answer 4

all depends on person really. I heard bodyboarding is easir for beginners.

Answer 5

No because i said.

Answer 6

It's like the difference between driving a car and a motorcycle.

Car= body boarding

motorcycle=surfing

Answer 7

After bodysurfing for years, I found bodyboarding horribly boring.  No challenge, no risk, barely any exercise.

Compared to surfing, it has to be even less.