Surfing - How to
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Learning how/where/when to position yourself is the hardest part, after the stamina required for paddling. Once you're up and riding it's not any harder than most other board sports.
As stoplying suggested, practice popping up in your living room. Do a pushup, then swivel your hips as you swing your legs underneath you to get into stance. Pushing your hips forward like a bullfighter as you stand. Avoid using your knees. You'll end up thrashing the deck of your board if you rely on your knees to stand up.
Land and stay in a crouch. Very rarely will you be standing fully upright on your board, and never with locked knees. Just like snowboarding: bend at the knees, not at the waist. You want your center of gravity to be balanced over the stringer.
- Dude, I'm totally pro at popping up in my living room.JackRyan