Softboards are trending and they’re staying Easy to surf, fun, safe and perfect for small waves. Know what we´re talking about? Of course you do, you read the title, it´s softboards! Also known as soft top surfboards or foam boards. Traditionally used for surf schools for beginners. Lately they´ve been becoming more popular. Welcome to the soft revolution. Next we´ll tell…
Softboards or soft top surfboards opinion and review
Softboards are trending and they’re staying Easy to surf, fun, safe and perfect for small waves. Know what we´re talking about? Of course you do, you read the title, it´s softboards! Also known as soft top surfboards or foam boards. Traditionally used for surf schools for beginners. Lately they´ve been becoming more popular. Welcome to the soft revolution. Next we´ll tell…
7 Tips for Wetsuit Maintenance
How to care for your wetsuit Apart from being our second skin in the water, the neoprene wetsuit isn´t cheap so wetsuit maintenance is important for it to last a long life. The stresses, rushes and lack of discipline will sometimes lead to neglect of some basic wetsuit cares. It will just take us a few minutes and we will…
How to transport your surfboard on your car
How do you strap your surfboard on your car? Surfboards are fragile elements. In another post we´ve talked about protecting your surfboards when travelling. Today we want to talk about how to secure your surfboard on your car. Without a doubt one of the most important lessons, since this may be an almost daily or weekly activity. But really, what…
5 ways of protecting your car keys while surfing
5 tips for keeping safe your car keys while surfing Just like most surfers, we don´t have the luck of having a surf house next to the beach that lets us go from bed to surf, and like all mortals we have to travel in our cars to the waves. So finding ways to protect our car keys from the…
Futures or FCS Fins
The battle of the Fins: Futures vs. FCS Are you thinking about getting a surfboard and don´t know which fin system to go for? Futures or FCS plugs? Is there a difference between one system and the other? Which fin system is better? What advantages do the Futures fins have over FCS? We´ll answer the great dilemma here, this problem…
Surfskate Maneuver Tutorial: Backside Reentry
Surfskate maneuver Training, Backside Reentry Surfskate is a new way of skating that simulates the movements we do when we surf, and there are more surfskate fans every day. This is not surprising at all. If the other day we were showing you how to pump with the skate, today it´s time to see how to do a Backside Reentry.…
Surfskate Maneuver Tutorial: The Floater
Surfskate Maneuver Training, The Floater By now we´ve taught you how to do a Frontside Reentry and a Backside Reentry, and the next surfskate maneuver that we´ll show you how to do is the Floater. The Floater is a transition maneuver that will be executed on the top section of a wave that will let us chain together the next…
Surfskate Maneuver Tutorial: Frontside Reentry
Surfskate Maneuver Training, Frontside Reentry In the previous surfskate tutorial that we taught you how to do a Backside Reentry, today it’s the Frontside Reentry turn. The surfskate is a modality of skate that simulates the movements we do when surfing. A good complementary activity for our surf sessions. Here we have our tutorial video for surfskate #enelpico_singlequiver. In this…
How many surf fins do I use?
Surf fins and why they are important for a surfboard. Surf fins have a double function. On one hand, they maintain the front of the surfboard on a frontward course and they avoid the tail from drifting when making a turn. Gives push, resistance, more feeling and control when making turns and lines. But the question is, how many surf…
How to choose your surf fins
All you need to know about surf fins Surf fins are an essential element to define the behavior of your surfboard. In a previous post we gave you the basic guide about how many fins to use. So today, we will give you the guide on how to choose adequate surf fins for your surfboard. Why use surf fins?…