Survey to all surfers - very easy 10 points!?

Question

How old are you?

Gender?

How long have you been surfing?

How long did it take you to 'pick it up'?

Where do you surf?

Best surf moment/surf-related memory?

Best answer gets 10 points =)

Answer 1

35

m

25 years

1 year

australia vic mornington pen, phillip island

kirra in its day

Answer 2

How old are you? 15

Gender? female

How long have you been surfing? well since summer 2007,

How long did it take you to 'pick it up'? about a week

Where do you surf? newquay uk and scarborugh:/(scarborugh is c**p but cloest to me)

Best surf moment/surf-related memory?the first time i stood up on my board in newquay

Answer 3

14

female

5 years

2 weeks

Lake Superior

the feeling of riding my first wave

Answer 4

How old are you?

i'm 20 years old i was born with a physical disability

Gender?

i'm female

How long have you been surfing?

i started surfing about 4 years ago i got a phone call from disabilities qld (australia) asking if i wanted to learn to surf and here i was thinking i only have one foot and one hand i dont have much balance so i thought  yeah why not

How long did it take you to 'pick it up'?

it took me about 4 constent hours of trying to even stand up on the bored in the sand befor i got on the water then about another 10 hours till i stood up on the bored in the water but till i cought my first wave about a week

Where do you surf? i surf at the gold & sunshine coasts of queensland australia

Best surf moment/surf-related memory? well catching my first wave yes but but the day of the 27th of january 2005 (6 months or so after i first stood up on the bored) i cought my first pipe/ barrell when i stoop on the wave i knew it was going to be good i rode the wave for ages i went form one end of the gold coast to the other it tool me 3 hours to get back to my car. but oh my god it was amazing .

when people see me carring the bored they think its my boyfriend and say coments like he's a prick for making you carry it i tern around to them and say hahaha its actualy mind and my bf dos not even surf (he is compleatly able bodied)

Answer 5

19

Female

5 years

6 months

Northern California

This is a real hard one...

I was sitting on my board waiting for the tide to change, I knew I was a little early but I just wanted to get wet so, ... I paddled out to the clear flat ocean anyway. I was just siting on my board praying about how bad circumstances in my life had been going when all of a sudden this whole school of mantarays as big as dinner tables come charging though the water directly under me. A few moment's later I saw this whale blow, a bunch of sardenes surfaced like glitter floating through the air from the whales forceful blow of air and following that a ton of sealions came by and gobbled them up. It was like God was saying "let me cheer up your day and give you some entertainment while your waiting.

Answer 6

How old are you?

36

Gender?

Male

How long have you been surfing?

20 years

How long did it take you to 'pick it up'?

1 day - Learned how to stand up and surf on a body board! Grew up with pro surfers telling me to be a man learn to stand, so I did but they meant on a surfboard. couple months later, I borrowed a board and the rest is history!

Where do you surf?

North Shore Hawaii and San Diego

Best surf moment/surf-related memory?

Signing my first autograph at a contest in Virginia Beach. I surfed like c**p during that heat, and still this kids wanted my autograph. Probably felt sorry for me but made my day.

Answer 7

22

male

10 years

natural

getting barreled

Answer 8

13

male

8 years

about 3 months

florida

when i did my first 1 minute stand

Answer 9

16

Male

Almost four years

at first wasnt really going alot, but after a year i was going reguarly so id say about a year

Florida! Ponce inlet, or Cocoa beach (although now that the sandbar is gone it suks)

surfing some killer shore break in cocoa beach, it was soo gnarley, you either rode the wave perfect or ate sand. awesome session!!!

Answer 10

17

  female

  year and a half

  i picked it up immedately, but took 6 months or so to get good at

  i surf on the east coast and sometimes gulf coast of florida

  best surf moment was the first time i stood up to ride a wave, i got that rush of excitement and energy and the adreneline that nothing can compare to. that very same day, i had a horrible wipeout and the leash got wrapped around my legs and i couldn't swim and i got trapped under the water for what seemed forever, it was a very humbling expierience to say the least. you stand up for your first wave and you think "hey, it's not that hard", then you go through h**l and you realize that mother nature is so much more powerful than you will ever be. it makes you realize how small we humans are in this world and that nature should be apperciated. that is my best memory.

Answer 11

im 16

im a Male

Been surfing 4 Probs 8 years

I dunno how long it took me to pick it up i was only a little grommet but it was prob 5-6 months

East Corrimal  2518 represent

oh and the farm rips i swear if those ******* council people build a ******* resort on the ******* green near the beach i will b spitting as will every1 else who has been there(In Australia)

First time Getting Keged is prob my fav moment

Answer 12

16

Male

I started about 3 years ago but I don't get too many chances to go to the beach

Depends... The first time you ride, you get hooked... You pick it up more and more every time you get the sickness...  that draws you back to the beach again and again...

I surf anywhere there's waves. Mostly in California.

Freezing my *** off in pacifica last weeking, wearing my wetsuit inside out like a r****d, feet bleeding cuase of the rocks, and board gets nice new ding... But i'd definately do it again...

Answer 13

44

m

34 years

5 years

hawaii (live here)

All if it....

Answer 14

15

female

4 years

about 2 weeks going everyday

usually rincon and places around there

every moment of it is good!

Answer 15

-Old enough to know that surf is about fun, and shouldn't be about getting angry.

-Male

-10+ years

-Always learning.  I transitioned from bodyboarding drop knee as a kid, so the first day I tried stand-up surfing I got up.  You should never stop learning.

-Tourmaline all the way up to Trestles

-Best moment was the first time I ever paddled out at Waikiki Beach @ Canoes.  To be riding where the Duke and the rest of the Waikiki Beach Boys rode... it's great.  It's like nothing else in the world.  To top it off, I got a great hang five that day and ended that same ride with a high five to a buddy paddling out.

Answer 16

16

female

about 5 years

about a week

home, school

dunno

Xx =)

Answer 17

29

male

10 years

few weeks

Humboldt

best moment six years ago rolling into a point break at Rincon and riding it all the way to the inside getting barreled.

Answer 18

18

Female

around eight months

I am still a begginer

CA

Being able to stand up my first try.