Tips — preparing for a surf trip
Join Hannah as she guides you through some awesome exercises to become stronger on the board:
🧡 Exercise 1 - Variation on push-ups
To paddle more efficiently while strengthening your muscle memory for your pop-up.
🧡 Exercise 2 - Variation on downward-facing dog
To build strength in the shoulders and core while improving your hip mobility. To strengthen your paddling and mobility in your pop-up.
🧡 Exercise 3 - Burpees
To strengthen your fitness and endurance, allowing you to surf longer, while burpees train the muscle memory you need for a perfect pop-up.
🧡 Exercise 4 - Superman
Make yourself an enduring paddler. Trains stability and strength in the back and neck to become an injury-free surfer.
Surf slang
In the surfing world, there's a lot of surf slang to keep track of. Check out our list below to become a pro.
🏄 Lineup
Used to describe where the waves usually break. Here the surfers sit on their boards and wait for the waves to break.
🏄 Set
A series of waves, two or more, approaching the line-up. The waves in a series are usually what the surfers are waiting for, as these are larger and better to surf on than the waves "between" the series.
🏄 Drop in
This describes a person who starts surfing a wave that someone else is already standing up and surfing on. One of the most important rules to know when surfing yourself: The person closest to the "peak" of the wave (where the wave breaks and becomes white foam) has priority on the wave.
