If you’re hitting the beach, why not hit the waves? This introduction to surfing explains a surfboard’s parts, tides, positioning your body, and paddling.

Grab your board, then grab a wave! Start learning to surf by seeing how to paddle through whitewater, catch your wave, turn left and right, and stop.

Stand up and show off your new surfing skills! Learn about the takeoff - or how to stand up on your board once you've caught a whitewater wave.

Time to hang ten, man! You've managed your surfing takeoff, now ride your first wave: learn how to stand in the mid position and steer your surfboard.

Now that you're used to surfing whitewater waves, learn to catch green waves, which are more challenging but will let you surf longer and faster.

Want to learn some sweet surfing tricks? Discover how to make bottom turns, scooping beneath the wave, and top turns, riding straight up to the lip of the wave.

There are plenty of fish in the sea - and plenty of surfers at the beach: learn the rules of surf etiquette to have fun while keeping your fellow surfers happy.

Surf a green wave like a pro! Learn when and how to takeoff (stand on your surfboard), and how to turn your board and ride sideways along the wave.