How Do I Use Swim Fins? - Bodyboard-School
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- Using swim fins will take your bodyboarding to the next level, especially if you’re a beginner.
Follow our top tips on how to use swim fins for the first time.
Tip 1 - Make sure your fins fit properly
Buy them from a reputable bodyboard shop and make sure they’re comfortable. If you already have a pair and they’re too tight, they rub or cause cramp in your feet, replace them.
Tip 2 - Put them on at the shore
Place them on the sand putting the right fin in front of the left fin, the correct way up. Slide your feet in. You can sit down to do it but it’s more awkward and you’ll get more sand in the fins. Pro’s do it standing up!
Tip 3 - Point your toes when you walk
It’s easy to trip up when you walk with swim fins. Keep your toes pointed up in the air and take big steps. Hold your board to the side as you walk. That way you can steady yourself if you do trip.
Tip 4 - Walk backwards out to sea but look where you’re going
Don’t look towards the shore or you’ll trip over. Be aware of rocks or deviations in the sand plus oncoming waves. Hold the board with the nose against your stomach to steady yourself. It’ll help keep your body in a hydrodynamical shape and prevent you from falling over.
Tip 5 - Conserve your energy
Don’t start paddling until you get too at least waist deep water. Any shallower and you’ll waste energy. Your leg muscles are far more used to walking than paddling. Wait for a lull, then jump on your board.
Tip 6 - Paddle
Place both hands on the nose of the board with your arms straight. Keep your weight towards the back of your board with your hips in the water. Kick up and down, one leg after the other but keep both legs in the water.
Use a paddle motion that feels most comfortable - either a peddle motion, like a bicycle, or kick both feet up and down. When you tire of one method, switch up your technique.
Tip 7 - Kick hard!
When you see a wave you want to catch, lock your arms to keep your board flat. Pull your body up onto the board so that your hips apply pressure to the back of the tail.
Kick your legs as hard as you can and keep them under the water’s surface to avoid splash. Make sure you’re in front of the wave’s peak.
Tip 8 - Don’t give up
It’s tricky getting to grips with swim fins but they’re essential to improvement!
Good luck and enjoy!
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I usually get fin rubs mostly when walking with the fins on. I usually just run in the water and put them on while in the water to avoid the pain while walking in them. And I think booking it onto the water without fins is faster than walking backwards.
Good points!
my mentor says never put on fins before u get in the water unless u diving off a rock or high place into the water for fear of loooking like a kook
Thanks for remaining dedicated to these lessons year after year
It's a labour of love. I hope that they help you to enjoy bodyboarding more! Cheers Rob
Rob you have saved me from my own kookness on multiple occasions thank you 😂
So glad to help! : )
I've just gotten into bodyboarding and am looking to invest in some fins. Thanks for the advice and tutorial 😁🤙
No problem 👍 Let us know if we can help with anything else!
@@bodyboard_holidays thanks 🙏😁
I just got some ultra flex Yucca fins from Fringe Surf in Newquay, I think he's the only stockist in the UK and got some 3mm Alder socks to go with em, can't imagine it getting more comfortable that this 😌. Top vid, great advice on here 🙏🏻
Thanks for the info, let us know how you get on with them!
This was really helpful- thank you!
Thanks for your comments, glad to hear we can help
Best fin video I've seen ty!
This guy telling me to use my board as a brace. I'm not that rich! If I get knocked over I'm falling flat on my face and saving the money haha
If you value your board over your face that's fine, hopefully it never happens!
Good video maes!! Pura vida 🇨🇷🤙🏾
Thanks, I’m definitely going to use the tip about the changing up between the 2 types of moving your legs in my next session
Btw is there a minimum age you have to be to go on a bodyboard trip of yours?
No minimum age but under 16's need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Thanks Rob
I put mine on my feet!🏝
Great start! 👏😜
Great video Rob.... Thank you. Trying fins for the first time this weekend. Is there any merit in using an anti-chafe product (LUUB / Bodyglide) to help avoid fin rubs? Cheers!
Thanks for your kind words. Check this video out about stopping fin rub.... ruclips.net/user/shortsPIaj3pmuQTk
They hurt your feet and probably damage your feet longer term, a company needs to redesign them. Perhaps have a sock with a fin attached somehow. I've now swapped to having no fins and its hard to catch waves but i can stay out for hours and feet feel great during and after.
I guess I am too vain to be walking on the beach with fins on looking like a clown, I do not have fin tethers so I just be line to the water about waist high and then put my fins on seems to work for me...
If that works for you, then why not Chuck. Enjoy your riding mate. Rob
Olá meu no é thiago gosto muito do seu trabalho...
Queria saber se você tem uma prancha 42 usada para me doar ou vender. Abraço brasil
Ei Thiago, obrigado pela mensagem. Você deve conferir ebodyboarding.com para obter as melhores pranchas aos melhores preços! Cheers Rob
Is it mandatory to have fins in order to bodyboard?
thanks for the comment, it is not mandatory to have fins but it will enable you to catch waves easier, as you can use the propulsion of the fins to catch the green waves
@@infonac392 thanks
No their not. But i have seen ruff surf conditions where the lifeguards require u to wear fins if u want to continue to Boogie board or use floats. (I was a kid so it was like a life time ago but it was in LBi nj) if a lifeguard blows his whistle & holds up swim fins then that meant we had to get them on.
You don’t use your arms ?
Yes! Do use your arms as well as your fins : )
@@BodyboardSchool you didn’t mentioned that in the video ..
Rob ur my fav rider
Ok getting into the water was wrong you just gotta run and land on your board onto the water and you skid across you can get a alot farther in
That works well on shorebreaks, but not at breaks where the depth of water doesn't get deep for 30 metres or more from the shore. Thanks for the comment : 0 )
god this sucks so bad i dont wann wear this shit cant i bb without fins?
You should make a bodyboarding game for the iPad and phone pls I bet people will even pay money for it because I know I would 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
There was a game for the mobile. Called youriding. I have no idea what happened to it.
Never turn your back on the sea
I usually get fin rubs mostly when walking with the fins on. I usually just run in the water and put them on while in the water to avoid the pain while walking in them. And I think booking it onto the water without fins is faster than walking backwards.
Pulling your fins on after walking in to the water takes a little skill but at certain breaks it can work well. Super tricky at some rock shelf reef breaks or shorebreaks. Thanks for your opinion, it's always interesting to hear the approach of other riders from around the world.