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Back in the day, surfers didn’t wear leashes to attach their board to their leg. If they wiped out, they just swam into the shore, picked up their surfboard and headed back out for another one. Its not like that ever since the urethane legrope was invented. Now surfers are attached to their surfboards via a urethane legrope that makes sure the surfboard and surfer never become separated in the surf.

Follow this rule, make sure for your surfboard that your legrope is generally the same length as your surfboard. This is the optimal length. As for thickness, no less than 3mm will do. The heavier the surf or the bigger the surfboard, go thicker. Only competition surfers or really advanced surfers should use skinny short leashes.

Make you tie the leash good and proper to your surfboard plug. If your surfboard is going to be lost in the surf, its gonna be the wee bit of cord that breaks or wasn’t tied well enough, not the urethane snapping.

You’ve found your perfect surfboard and now you’re heading overseas to some remote surf hot spot where you’ll not come across surfboards for sale. You have to take your own surfboard. However, traveling abroad with your surfboard is sometimes risky business. Read on this article for top grade advice on how to pack your surfboard safely to survive the dreaded baggage handlers.

Take out your fins if you can. Most surfboard now come with FCS fins as standard. Buy a good surfboard travelbag, at least 5mm thickness. Then for extra padding especially around the tail and nose of the surfboard use some of your beach towels. Alternatively or as well, put your surfboard inside a sleeping bag if you’re taking one.

Surfboard travel bags are also great for storing some of your other surf stuff such as your wetsuit. On the outside of your surfboard bag make sure and mark it with fragile stickers. Not every baggage handler knows you have a fragile fiberglass surfboard inside that coffin shaped bag. Also ask at check-in if your surfboard can be placed on last. Most airlines won’t accommodate any such requests, but its worth a try.

With all this padding and marking the chances of your fragile surfboard making to your destination in good condition are much higher.

Cold water surfing is a different experience to surfing as many surfers know in warm water. Cold water surfing requires a wetsuit, generally a 3/2mm steamer is enough to get by through the Australian winter whereas in the UK’s North Sea water temperatures plunge to 5 Celsius, surfers require a 5/4mm steamer along with boots, gloves, hat as a minimum.

Asides from coldness factor, the ability of the surfer to surf is diminished to some degree by the cold water and air itself and the restriction of the wetsuit (although wetsuit technology is vastly improved since the 60’s).

The desire of some surfers is also brought down due to the cold conditions and as a worldwide trend among surfers, more people surf in the summer time than winter when the weather is punishing even the waves are better in winter.

Cold water surfing is difficult thing and makes it harder too to surf. This is shown in the ASP ranking, generally more of the world’s best surfers come from warm water surfing spots such as Hawaii, Brazil and Australia.