New Age Surfing and Style

It's really amazing what surfers are trying and doing on waves today. There are more variations of airs, turns, or any other maneuver you could think of. It's getting harder to compete against these young kids at your local break as they just keep thinking up new ways to do a grab or throw the fins out. When I got into surfing airs were not looked at as the huge maneuver or at least not yet. Watching the old Momentum surf videos and wanting to impersonate guys like Pat O'Connell and Rob Machado, with their super smooth styles and huge turns, It makes it hard to try to change our own style that you have developed through the years and have spent trying to do something completely different. Although there are many times we all try our airs now and again, it's becoming harder to impersonate the new age surfer that blast huge or crazy airs on almost every wave.
Everyone has their style and everyone enjoys how they surf, what makes surfing such a great sport is that surfing can show our own true personality without even saying a word. If you’re smooth, then usually you’re a calm person who likes to enjoy riding the wave and just let their surfing do the talking. If you’re aggressive, then you may be someone who is very competitive and has a lot of energy out of the water. At times we could be both, sometimes neither, but we still are different then anyone in the water. So go surf, and show your personality off!
-surferabell
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