Customer Reviews

Learn to Surf

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1 star:		(3)

 

 

Learn to surf is the most comprehansive, yet simplest "teach yourself" how to surf book. It is packed with many fantastic tips that would make a competent surfer out of anyone. After I read this book, I took to the waves and haven't since looked back. This book helped me bring forth the passion of the waves in me and I feel a much more complete person for it. The book is best used in conjunction with live surfing tuition to get the best results. I am now a fully trained surfing instructor working in Newquay, and I believe it is this book that helped me get there. If any of you aot there want to get into surfing, this is the book for you!!

I've just taken up surfing here in Ireland and so I read this book with great interest - especially the part about water temperature. 48 degrees in the water is damn cold, so a 5/3 wetsuit with boots is a necessity to make sure you don't have a miserable session(at the very least).

It was very good, covering all the basics of how to to get up on the board in stages and good detail was also available on wave mechanics. The only thing I felt lacking was a more indepth discussion on surfboards - for example - why some boards have three fins fitted and others just one etc..

This book is for the absolute beginner. It teaches you step by step how to get started if you are just beginning. It did provide some nice tips on proper paddling and positioning. Give it a quick read and just go out and do it. I didn't think all the beginning steps (jumping into white water, riding on your knees, etc.) were necessary. Just do what feels right. It's a good book for the right audience though.

Every beginning surfer should read this book. I picked it up and couldn't put it down. MacLaren takes you through every aspect of surfing with wit and humor. I read it cover to cover, then went out and bought a 9 foot longboard (as suggested) and hit the beach. Within the first hour in the water I was standing up and riding waves in, without shelling out alot of cash for lessons. You don't need lessons, all you need is THIS BOOK!!!

I am a newbie surfer and I found this book to be outstanding. It is a straight read. (That is, you can sit down and read to whole thing cover to cover in one setting without getting bogged down in jargon.) It covers everything you need to know to get started in the sport. It is full of good advice and good humor. If you want to get started with surfing, this very well could be the only book you'll ever need. (The rest you'll get from other surfers and magazines.) Buy it and read it before you hit the beach or buy any equipment.

This is a great book to learn in depth about surfing, I have been surfing since I was 6 and I wish that I had a book to teach me all of the things that I learned the hard way. This book is a survival guide, It teaches you about waves, form and how to identify rip tides and other things that can end your day of surfing and your life. If you are considering learning to to surf, you can't afford not to read this book.

I started surfing when I was 17 (19 now). This book prepared me to go out and catch my first wave. From buying wax to cruising down the line, this book educates you with the basics of Surfing. I reccomend this book to anybody interested in this adictive sport!!!

This book gives up the basic technics on surfing. Mr. MacLaren gives simple step by step instructions on how to position yourself in the board, to buy perfect surfboard for you and paddle the perfect waves. The only thing he can't do with this book is to tell you which is the perfect wave in the really life. I recommend this book, for all of us who wanted to know how to do this and really couldn't find anyone that can teach.

This book is good for beginners. It's simple and easy to follow. If you have a basic idea about surfing then you may need to look for something more advance.

Despite of language difficulties, this book give me some tips about surfing sport. I'm a surfer for only two years and I feel that my expertise have been improved more rapidly since I wrote the book. I'm graduated in Oceanography and think that the author have a correct approach about technical aspects of coastal dynamics and safe behavior on beach and sea waters, probably acquired on a wide experience (surfing a lot). Good choice for all water fans.