Lessons
01.What You Will Need
02.Surfing Pop Up
03.Waxing Up
04.Paddling
05.Standing Up
06.Duck Dive
07.Surfing Waves
08.Bottom Turn
09.Surfing Cutback

03. Waxing Up - surfboard wax

So you have learned how to pop up on the sand and you know that you are either a goofy or regular foot, one of the most important things to do now is learn how to wax a surfboard. Without surfboard wax even the best surfers in the world probably wouldn’t be able to stand up, they certainly wouldn’t be able to do turns. You have to put wax on the deck of your surfboard, it’s as simple as that.
There are loads of different brands of surfboard wax out there, A couple of our favourites are, Sex Wax, Famous and Mrs. Palmers but any recognised surfboard wax will do you good especially when you are learning.

Choosing The Right Surfboard Wax

A lot of people use a base coat as well as a top coat when they wax their surfboard, by using a base coat it will make you wax job last a lot longer and act as a primer for your top coat.
A base coat is generally a tropical temperature (made for surfing in tropical water) wax, in other words the hardest surf wax that you can get your hands on. Wax varies in softness depending on what water temperature it is intended for. The rule of thumb is this: Cold water requires very soft surf wax whereas Warm tropical water requires very hard wax so that is doesn’t melt off your surfboard.
There are a number of different degrees of wax from all the brands out there depending on water temp. Remember that the top coat is the one that should match up the water temperature where you are going to be surfing and the bottom or base coat should be a hard tropical wax.

How To Wax A Surfboard Correctly

Make sure the deck of your surfboard is clean, dirt and grease free. Get your fresh bar of wax out rub it onto your board in circular motions, use the edge of the block rather than the flat surface as this will give you better humps/lumps. Do this from the tail of your board to about ¾ of the way up it, stand next to your board with your surfing stance and make sure that there is plenty of surfboard wax covering all the area that you might stand up. Remember it is way better to have too much of your board area covered with wax than too little. Rub all over until you get an even amount of coverage and that there are no little areas left without. Now you know how to wax a surfboard it is time to hit the water