Philippines has lots of amazingly beautiful beaches and shoreline. Resorts, party places along the beach, and of course, SPORTS. I have friends who are enjoying scheme boarding along the beaches, it is a sport somewhat like of the surfing but does not require big waves unlike surfing. Oops! Don’t think that Philippines don’t have beaches conducive for surfing because Philippines do have beaches with BIG waves and that made me curious about surfing. J What really is surfing, where did it originated, what does is require for you to be a surfer…a good surfer. I had found out that it is:

Surfing is a surface water sport in which participant is carried along the face of a breaking wave, most commonly using a surfboard.

On history, surfing was part of the Polynesian culture in which the chief would display their authority by demonstrating their ability on surfing. It was the basis to measure their capability on leading the group. The board used by the chief is made from the best tree because as a head of the group they surely deserve to have the best board to enrich their talent on surfing. Up to now, surfing is a well-known sport all over the world especially those with beautiful beaches and shoreline.

There are two major subdivisions within the contemporary stand-up surfing reflected by the differences in surfboard design and riding style of longboarding and shortboarding.

Longboarding usually uses a longboard and is primarily a single finned surfboard with large rounded nose and length of 9–12 ft (2.7–3.7 m). Noseriders are a class of longboards which enable the rider to walk to the tip and nose ride. While on the other hand, shortboarding uses a variety of surfboards within five and seven feet in height and with a pointed nose and a rounded or squarish tail.

I had learned a lot and had enjoyed looking for information on surfboarding that makes me wanna buy surfboards online. Wait I’ll check out for those after this.