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Surfing is a sport that involves sliding over the waves standing on a table, directing it through one or more fins located on the back of the table.

This sport can be risky due to physical exertion and possible injuries caused by not taking precautions such as always look before you make a wave or give a wave to someone who is closer to the surf. However, there are a large number of injuries in the surf (with the notable exception of Bethany Hamilton) and the use of "invention" prevents the tables whose owners have fallen hitting other surfers.

It is worth noting that this sport requires qualities such as balance, skill, agility and coordination.

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There is evidence of the presence of surf more than 500 years in the islands of Polynesia. English explorer James Cook reached the Hawaiian Islands in 1778.

On the other hand in northern Peru, local cultures left traces that show men going up waves. The Huacos are pre-Inca pottery and one of them clearly shows a man on a tree or something similar in the attitude of surfing a wave. This would indicate that all began in South America, but it was the Polynesians in their constant trips between islands which, centuries later, would take the habit of sliding waves to places like Hawaii.

Upon contact, the indigenous cultures were suppressed and the surf boom came to losing. James Cook was later killed by the natives. In the twentieth century the surf was recovered, and the interest of tourists and U.S. military in Hawaii, and the fame of the Olympic Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, surfing began to become popular on the coasts of California and Australia, creating the seeds of a subculture in environments in which they practiced, extended into other countries.

This occurred in the years 50 / 60. Then the tables were large items of solid wood and the surf was a simple practice. Later it was becoming more difficult thanks to the courage of pioneers like Oscar Rodriguez, patriarch of modern big wave surfing. There was also an evolution in the stunts and moves, while research into new designs and materials in tables that allow other expressions. Currently surfing competition is mainly based on:

research design and materials engineers in aeronautics surfers looking for a hydrodynamic optimization of the tables.
current Aussie style developments (large and energetic movements.)
in recent years has included influences of the movements of skateboarding and snowboarding, sports turn-based surf.

In many countries on different continents, the surf was known already in the 60's. Today surfing is practiced in most parts of the world, although most buoyant industries tables and accessories are based in Australia, Europe and South America. Among the most popular destinations for travelers practitioners are Australia and Southeast Asia. Surfing is a sport in Latin America also thriving in parts of Chile and Pichilemu (Punta de Lobos) and Iquique, also in Peru, beaches like Mancora or Chicama beaches are ideal for this sport.

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Within the surf "table", or surf itself, there are two basic categories depending on the size and type of table:

shortboard, or short board surfing (from 1.50 to 2.10 meters)
longboard, with tables of length equal to or greater than 2.75 m. This is the classic surf style (practiced in the decades 50 and 60 is the one that initiated the Longboards today.

Categories are also defined as the type of waves

There are two variants, the kneeboard is a short board that can surf the knees, with fins, and cork, foam boards that are softer than conventional glass fiber, only one meter and in which lying can surf with fins as well as in the kneeboard. (Help a lot to catch the waves) While kneeboard is increasingly rare, because of their danger corks minor bumps and keelage, ease of use and extreme maneuvers that allow a lot has been popularized.

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There are a number of basic movements in the surf, which are:

Take Off: The first move made by surfers, is when you stop paddling lying on the table and passed to the upright position, ready to slip over the wave. It takes off on a wave, more for their power by the wind.
Bottom Turn: As its name suggests (in English, 'bottom' = down, 'turn' = turn), this maneuver is the first turn after the "take off". Once we took momentum in the fall of the tide must be turned to escape from the wave that is breaking. In the bottom of the wave force of the wave ceases to push us, and must maneuver the inertia of the drop to rise again. Otherwise, we'd head straight to the bank, we could not go through the wall of the wave and foam of the wave rotates quickly overtake us. It is the opposite of Cut Back.
Cut Back: is, once we slid down the wall of the wave running from the surf, make a turn almost 180 degrees to return to this approach.
Reentry: is up to the crest of the wave and make a sharp turn of 180 degrees, lower it again.
Floater: is sailing on the foam of a breaking wave.
Tube: consists of sliding on the tube that creates the wave breaking. This is considered the Queen of the Surf maneuver because of its difficulty and showmanship. It's the perfect wave and surfer dream around. A place where you can experience these waves is Cabo Blanco, Peru
Air (or Air): is the name given to any maneuver that results in a take-off of water and is therefore in the air. There are several air that are distinguished by the "grabs" (ways to hold the table with his hands in the air in front, behind, with both hands at once ...-) or movement that makes the surfer the air (one of the most spectacular is the "Air-360" in which the surfer makes a 360 degree rotation in the air.
"360": It starts as a re-entry, but it continues to rotate in the same direction 360 degrees.
"Snap" is a kind of Cut-back made more sharply and with a smaller radius in the rotation.

LongBoard maneuvers or Board:

"Hang Five": This is walk around the table until one foot is on the front of the table (called the nose).
"Hang ten": Place both feet on board in the nose. Requires great skill and speed of the wave because if not, the surfer's collapse and fall into the water table.
"Drop Knee": This is turning Longboard Classic. It's like a cut back but the back leg until the knee flexed touch the board.

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The difficulty of this sport lies in both the speed and the size and shape of the waves. The waves suitable for surfing navigated style are those that evolve and develop break the wall and the foam progressively to the right or left. If the waves break over a rock surface, and with little depth will be most suitable for bodyboard prcática. To identify suitable conditions for surfing, use the description of various elements or parts of the wave:

Wall: the part of the wave that she stood up, lifted a water surface above the horizontal line at various angles or even vertical. That part of the wave on which the surfer browsing.
Lip (Lip) is the wall and foam that falls just above the beginning section of the wall and the section on just
Arm: (English shoulder, shoulder) is the volume of water contained wall, ie the length of the wave surfable.
Gap, parts of the wall and the arm takes on a concave presence, which can be projected rapidly on the body of the surfer to go to the table on them.
Tube: hollow space that remains shrouded in the fall of a curled lip movement as a result of progress and rupture of the wave.
Crest: top of the wave.

Appointing various types of wave in response to your form:

Orillera: breaks very close to shore and is dangerous in collisions with the background.
Hollow is the adjective form of which the waves are rising cilindroide creating a section where the force vectors settings allows to navigate more energetic on the table.
Tubera, hollow wave that breaks curling in on itself so that it defines a full cylindrical space within which it can still control the navigation on the table under the lip of water falling from the top of the wall of the wave.
Mushy: in Spain, was named to the hollow waves that break, or who are almost all foam.
Barra is one large wave that breaks falling portions of the lip at the same time, closing the wall abruptly, making them unsuitable for surfing waves.

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They are classified according to size (in the surf majority):

less than 1'50m / 2m high wall are considered small waves, "comfortable" that is common height
up to 2 meter waves are considered medium or "normal"
from 2 meters of wall is considered big wave surfing. Then the proportion defined adjectives of a different scale, whose highest levels have been exceeded several tens of feet. A few years ago talking about surfing giant waves (see The Billabong XXL).

To measure the wave is used internationally in sailing Douglas Scale.

The size of the waves on surf is measured depending on the culture where we are:

Behind, in classic style as in Hawaiian Islands;
On the front: from sea level with the highest point of the ridge, as is usual in the rest of Spain;
Compared with human body parts (wave of shoulders, waist wave, wave of man and environment). On the north coast of the Iberian Peninsula, is often used the word "metro" for a measure similar to a tall, stooped man, ie the average height of a surfer in action on the wave.

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The behavior of the waves varies greatly depending on the background on that break:

on the sand. Waves are usually less violent, since the forms of sandbanks or taro are usually not very pronounced, constantly shaped by the action of tides, currents and waves, and consequently less resistant to the blows of the sea and the waves . Sand banks are not completely stable and the waves of sand from some sites are not the same every year.
Rocky reefs (waves of rock). Are the most stable, when sea conditions bring good waves, along with coral.
coral reefs. They are reputed to be the best waves, as the constant action of hard corals and sponges animals living under these molds breaking a barrier that fits in an almost magical the movement of the wave. They are usually hollow and strong, popular for surfing.

The suitability of either fund depends on each site:

By the nature of tides, currents and sea blows received
In depth: coral reefs and rock are the most dangerous.
In the sand banks on the type of coastal topography, the proximity of rocks to favor or not the formation of banks, the presence in the bay, currents, etc..
Because of the proximity of the reef to the shore or coastal cliffs.

And the wave of Lloret unique in the Canary Islands, Playa de las Canteras.

Is a tube of 2 to 3 meters high speed rarely seen.

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