Surfing Vs. Stand Up Paddle Surfing – A scientific study.
Posted by SUP Matt in Surfing Friday, 12 October 2007 09:05 2 Comments
Yeah right ! Scientific….well prehaps not, but everybody talks about how stand up paddle surfing means that you can get out in the water more that surfing. With smallers waves being easy to surf on a SUP board, but a nightmare on a regular long or short board. So I thought where is the evidence of this ?
Rather than wait for a man with a beard in a lab coat to come up with the answer I have decided to conduct my own study here. I live, more or less, on the beach at a break called Bracklesham and everyday I do a surf report.
Over the course of a year, starting from October 1st 2007 I will be keeping a record of the conditions (I will try to make sure that I have an image for everyday but sometimes this is not possible) and I will be rating the conditions on whether they are surfable or whether they are Stand Up Paddle surfable. I shall be producing monthly stats and at the end of the year we will have the full data set.
See the Surfing Vs. Stand Up Paddle Surfing page here.
The study is a great idea and the stats look interesting already….. but I will only help if I can have a white coat and grow a dodgy beard
please tell me that photo was not taken today…..
Ride safe
Andy
Lol – No sadly ! It was one of the better days last december.