7 year old California kid learning to surf

This boy is on a 6' foam board learning to surf in poor conditions in Northern California over Labor Day weekend in 2006. It's probably not much of an interest to the general public. However, if you have a kid that you're teaching to surf, it might be interesting.

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Sports

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• kids
• learning
• surfing

[surfkidsdad]

Channy, I think you will sink the board or have a tough time popping up. Get a used 8' or longer board. A 9' foam board would be perfect. I think my son was about 60 pounds in that video. It's pretty cheap to rent a 9' board to test up. My preference is all foam with a soft fin.

[pittsburgh123412]

he needs to stand further up on the board just sayinr

[liltaz123456]

nice work little man...keep the good work up and u could one day be pro

[victorhugomuzi]

@slickdickham

yeh same wif me, second day of surf i got pushed in huge waves got smashed, cut my legg hit my had couldnt walk for a day and my shortboard was all fucked up

the thin got stuck inside the board.... look how big the waves are in manly and in curlcurl.

[victorhugomuzi]

my first day at surfin i was like this

but i was twelve and i was using a short board

(much harder than this begginer board)

[slickdickham]

wow those wave r small when i learnt years ago my friends pushed me onto five foot waves got smashed mostly.

[alexander924]

way to give constructive critism to a 7 year old

[Channy545]

hey!.

I was looking into buying a 6' foamie board for myself. I am 16 years old, have never surfed, and i am about 136 lbs. The waves are super tiny and i was wondering if it would be worth it? like do u think i would sink the board?

[98nfsmw98]

Keep paddling more and paddle harder. Also, when your/he is standing up he needs to make sure the back of front of the board isn't under the water or over the water. His is way too over and that's part of the reason he's falling over. It needs to be even...

[bigal5193]

you gotta paddle harder dude, youl get it, keep tryin