Hi Everyone,
I ask to myself (please help me) if would be possible to see surfer with a graduation skills. It could be from 1 to beginners level and 10 to experts.
We see it in martial arts as colors identificating how good you're, from white belt to black belt.
I understand that this forum is for shappers and apologise if I'm in a mistake. sorry about my english.
Good waves for all from Rosa's Beach - Brazil
If you have fun laugh and smile surfing than your probably around a 10. But that’s ona a scale that I just made up and really has no scoring system.
Yep!
cheers A2tall,
100% I agree with you, surf is be happy and you're 100.
apart our surf world ..i would try to say
1 - stand up on white water
2- stand up and goes straight on the face
3 - Do botton turn
4- ..
5-
6-
7
8-
9-
10 - Does from Aerial reverse,to all maneuvers. let's say all the pro competitors for sure
Please, please don’t forget the risk level when giving out the belts. Risk to others and self. Catching waves without missing, obeying a line up order, li-dat.
Now give me my black belt and smile.
I used to do martial arts and I am going to say this: Belts have nothing to do with a skill level. Belts are given according to how long you have been doing the particular martial art. I did shotokan Karate for 8 years before moving to the coast. The next year I would have got my blackbelt. There wasn’t a dojo in my style so I started with another style, Goju Ryu, and I had to start all the way down at whitebelt. If I find a shotokan dojo and join them, within a year I would be black belt, but in Goju Ryu, which really isn’t all that much different, I will have to train for another 10 years to get my black belt.
Kind of like surfing your home break for 10 years and getting all the waves you want, but then going to a localised spot like pipeline or J-bay and being at the bottom of the pack, even if you are the best surfer there.
“Belts have nothing to do with a skill level.” This statement is false. Certainly, how long you have been training correlates with your skill level. How many hours you train has much more to do with your skill level. And, there is also a thing called talent that contributes to skill level. Combine this with a certain amount of subjective evaluation of what ‘good’ is and it can take quite a few years to attain a black belt. However, earning a black belt, in my experience, only means you are fairly proficient at the basics and having a black belt does not mean some nasty old street fighter can’t come along and pound the living shit out of you. Training in the martial arts is a life long ambition and THE goal. Mike