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Encyclopedia > Body surfing

Bodysurfing is the art and sport of riding a wave without the assistance of any buoyant device such as a surfboard or bodyboard. Bodysurfers typically equip themselves only with a pair of swimfins for optimized propulsion.


Some practitioners carry or wear a small planing surface on the hand to aid with positioning on the wave face: This helps to support a recommended safety practice that anyone engaging in bodysurfing should be careful to hold a hand out in front of where their head is whenever they are on a wave in case they wipe out.


Very few books have been written about the subject...


The Art of Bodysurfing by Robert Gardner (1972)


Bodysurf by Hugo Verlomme and Laurent Masurel (2002)


The Art of Wave Riding by Ron Drummond (1931)


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South Padre Island: Dad Feets Speaks (606 words)
Body surfing ought to be a sport in its own right: it is an easy workout and it is fun.
For body surfing, you actually want average-sized waves that have a lot of forward power to them, since you are immersed in the water, not on top of it.
You will find that many board surfers surf at high tide, which is wrong if you want to get good body surfing action because the waves will be at their most vertical.
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