18 - Organic Surf Wax

Ingredients:

beeswax
coconut oil

Mix 2250g of melted beeswax and stir 750ml of coconut oil into a cup and let it sit.


To make the organic wax even stickier try mixing:

80% beeswax
10% coconut oil
10% tree resin

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17 - Make your own Surf Wax

Ingredients:

Paraffin wax
Microcrystalline wax
Petroleum Jelly
Vistanex (Adhesive)
Scent and Dye - for look and smell

Mix all the ingredients together

6 parts Paraffin
2 parts microcrystalline
1 part petroleum jelly
1 part Vistanex

Melt all the ingredients at 100F.

Depending on you weather you may want to vary the ingredients. For colder water you increase the petroleum jelly and decrease the wax. For unusually warm water decrease the petroleum jelly and increase the wax.

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16 - Surfer Wear

Dealing in water for a long time has led surfer's to develop their own style of clothing optimized for the sea.


A surfer wears sandals and flip flops instead of shoes
A surfer wears long swimming short or boardshorts instead of pants.
Sunglasses are worn to keep the sun from their eyes.
Sunblock is always used.

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15 - How Waves are Made

Waves are made by wind causing ripples. The stronger the wind the larger the ripples. Waves will only form as large as the wind blowing on them.

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14 - Types of waves

"Beach Break" waves are where wave break on the seabed.

"Point Break" waves break on rocky and jagged objects

"Reef Break" waves break over coral reefs

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13 - Wetsuits

If you intend to surf for a while invest in a wetsuit. These are essentially body-suits made of neoprene that zip-up, the usually are cut short on the arms and legs. Sometime a wetsuit will have detachable arms and legs. They can be thinner or thicker depending on how much cold you can take. Your wetsuit should be tight, but not too tight. A wetsuit works be trapping a layer a water between the suit and the skin and uses the surfer's body heat to warm this layer.

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12 - Surfboard Fins

Fins are on your board to help you steer. Either they will be removable or glassed on. They all are about the same curvature, but vary in size and flexibility. Fin Depth is how far the fin goes into the water, the more it goes into water the more control you will have. The length of base on the fin determines speed, the longer the more speed.

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