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Surfing is a wave-riding sport in which athletes paddle into breaking waves, stand on a surfboard and ride the wave with turns, manoeuvres and speed. Competitions judge wave selection, difficulty, execution, innovation, speed, power and flow.

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Classification

Category Water sport

Family Surf Family

Level Variant

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Surfing is a wave-riding sport in which athletes paddle into breaking waves, stand on a surfboard and ride the wave with turns, manoeuvres and speed.

Geeignet für Fits if you want to learn outdoors in water and deal with natural conditions, you have patience for many small attempts and few perfect moments, you want to combine technique, balance and safety awareness.

Cost 40-250 EUR, often much less with rental equipment. 20-100 EUR per month for course, pool, boat, board, or club. 10-50 EUR per month in a club, equipment often extra. Courses, rentals, and safety gear strongly affect cost.

First progress Basic feel often comes after 2-5 sessions; safe technique takes longer.

Fitness level medium

Was du brauchst

Soft-top board, leash, wetsuit depending on water, sun protection, safe swimming ability and suitable beginner waves.

First steps

Start with a surf school, soft-top board, whitewater waves and safety briefing rather than the full lineup.
Look for a surf school, supervised beginner spot, surf club, camp or local forecast/safety guidance.

Look for a surf school, supervised beginner spot, surf club, camp or local forecast/safety guidance.

Start only in the appropriate source-described context and follow local rules.

Weitere Angaben

Tags individual, outdoor, water, einzeln, wasser, wellenreiten, water-sport, surfing

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

The objective is to ride waves with the best combination of difficulty, execution, innovation, speed, power, and flow.

Teilnehmer

Individual heats with multiple surfers; team scoring in national competitions.

Teamgröße

Individual in heats; teams by competition.

Spielfeld

Surf break with defined competition area in the ocean.

Dauer

Heats have fixed time windows.

Wertung

Waves are judged; best waves count according to the format.

Gewinnbedingung

Highest heat or aggregate score wins.

Ausrüstung

Surfboard
leash
wetsuit depending on conditions

Wichtige Regelpunkte

Interference
priority violation
unsporting conduct

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

International Surfing Association (ISA)

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Surfing Surf Brigade · beginner-guide · medium
Surfing 101: Complete Beginner's Guide SEAR · beginner-guide · medium
Wikipedia DE Wikipedia DE · reference · medium
ISA Rulebook ISA · official · high
ISA ISA · federation · high