How to be a Surfer
Published on 3. April 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-14-131624-6 (ISBN)
Description
This is a fully comprehensive guide to all aspects of surfing - not just as a sport but as a way of life. With interviews, anecdotes and advice from some of the world's top surfers, this book covers all the essential basics - technique, gear, location, competitions, environmental awareness and clubs, as well as focusing in on the everyday aspect of surfing - the urban gear, surf speak, the tunes to be chilling out to and the web sites to be logging on to.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Target group
Children/juvenile
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
maps, b&w and colour photographs, illustrations, glossary
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 113 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
146 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-131624-6 (9780141316246)
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Persons
Chris Nelson founded the cult magazine - Asylum - the UK's first crossover surf, skate, snowboard and lifestyle publication (metamorphising into the hugely successful Freeride and F.ride.com). Both he and Demi Taylor have extensive involvement in the surfing media and have just completed a nine-month project documenting the continent's top surf locations and interviewing riders from across the globe. The couple have ridden waves from the frigid north of Scotland to the balmy Moroccan desert.
Content
Only a surfer knows the feeling; surfing's colourful history; technique; equipment; surf travel; environment; where do waves come from?; clubs; lifestyle; the pro files; surf comps.