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Title: Longboarder's Start-Up: A Guide to Longboard Surfing (Start-Up Sports Series, No 6) by Doug Werner ISBN: 1-884654-06-1 Publisher: Tracks Pub Pub. Date: August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: hope you already know how to surf...
Comment: This book is written by a shortboard surfer who has taken up longboarding and is written exclusively from this perspective. If you know how to surf or have some working knowledge, the book has some good points. If you're a rank beginner, this is not your best bet for learning.
As a beginner longboard rider, I found useful information about evaluating a longboard design (picking a board). The surf ettiquete section explains the basics but lacks visual guides for the rank beginner. Much of the remainder of the book describes how to perform shortboard type manuvers on a longboard - not of much use for the beginner.
I agree with another review that the language of the book is in true surfer lingo (dude). That may be ok for the surf culture but seems unprofessional when reading an instructional book.
In all, I found better information, free, surfing the web for info. The info included diagrams of wave structure and formation, and surf ettiquete. I'll probably purchase a true instructional video and sell the book back.
Rating: 3
Summary: OK... But
Comment: This book was really only of moderate usefullness. I got better information at my local surf shop.
Rating: 2
Summary: Some useful parts, but much less than it could be
Comment: As a longboarder, I found this book quite disappointing, and at times even insulting. Mr. Werner treats longboarding as an inferior form of surfing that only people unable to shortboard would bother with. He seems to feel that all longboarders secretly wish to be shortboarders, and he spends a lot of time discussing the ways in which one can do shortboard maneuvers on Bill Stewart's modified longboards.
The interviews with Bill Stewart are the worst part of the book. To listen to Mr. Stewart one would think that he invented the longboard, rather than just an interesting variant.
This book does have a number of useful tips and photographs, and is worth looking over at the library. However, it is critically flawed by the author's failure to present longboarding is an art form in its own right, rather than just the next best thing to shortboarding. Many supurb surfers prefer longboards, and feel as I do that classic longboard surfing has a lot more artistic and spiritual potential than does most shortboard surfing. Watching a great longboarder hang ten sends chills down my spine; I've never seen a shortboard maneuver that could compare.
If you are stoked on longboard surfing, I highly recommend watching videos of Joel Tudor and classic surf movies like *The Endless Summer* and *Big Wednesday*.
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Title: Surfer's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Surfing (Start-Up Sports Series) by Doug Werner ISBN: 1884654126 Publisher: Tracks Pub Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Learn to Surf by James MacLaren ISBN: 1558215689 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title:The Endless Summer ASIN: 6305837384 Publisher: Image Entertainment Pub. Date: 14 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $11.24 |
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Title: Surf Flex: Flexibility, Yoga, and Conditioning Exercises for Surfers by Paul Frediani, Peter Field Peck, Jim Lucas ISBN: 1578260787 Publisher: Hatherleigh Pr Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Fit To Surf by Rocky Snyder ISBN: 0970612001 Publisher: Emerson Publishing Company Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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