Stand up paddle boarding is an exciting and fun water sports. If you have never ever been paddling on an inflatable SUP board, it's strongly recommended to get yourself an affordable and unique iSUP board to get out on the water as soon as possible. Once you have learn the basic skills of how to ride your stand up paddle board, you will know how much fun it is! In addition to just traveling over calm waters, another more enjoyable way is riding ocean waves like surfing and you can get yourself an expert now! For beginners, the skills of how to SUP surfing is basic, another important thing to learn is how to ride your inflatable surfing SUP board in a safe and courteous manner because there will be other surfers around you on the beach.

Here are three tips for you:

1. Don't overestimate yourself

Just like any other sports in life, there are always different levels of sporters. Don't try the higher level of stand up paddle boarding before you are ready! Falling off your board in the sea with big waves can be very dangerous. You know you are good in calm waters, doesn't mean you can ride huge waves. For beginners, our suggest is start from smaller waves. Practice your surfing skills on your SUP board, once you get used to these smaller waves, you can move up in difficulty levels slowly. This is the only way to keep both yourself and other surfers around you safe. By the way, try to practice surfing in the area with less surfers so that to avoid hitting others before you can control your board easily.

2. Stay out of the way of other surfers

The first tip above you know you should not ride in areas with too many surfers, this tip is about how to ride with other surfers in the same area. First, when you are paddling out into the surf, make sure to stay on the shoulder of the wave instead of where it is breaking. This is the useful tip that can help keep you from getting into collisions. With other surfers on the water, it is not polite to just jump on every wave, the right thing you should do is wait your turn. Although there is not usually a specific order to follow, but you can follow what everyone else is doing. Usually, the surfer who is nearest to the peak of the wave has the right of way, so you should stay out of their way or you may cause arguments and accidents, dangerous for you and other surfers.

3. Follow other unwritten rules

When you jump into the water with your inflatable stand up paddle board, another important thing you need to remember is always keep ahold of board. Don't just swim around dragging it behind you by your leash or just leave it on the water, this is very dangerous for other surfers. Also, if you are visiting a new surfing area, do not conflict with locals. This is their beach, and if you are polite, they are usually happy to share it. Another obvious rule for everyone is that if you see another surfer in trouble, do whatever you can to help. Whether it's swimming out to help them or yelling to the lifeguard, you need to provide assistance immediately. They will do the same for you.

Following the above several simple rules you can enjoy surfing on your inflatable SUP board safely and courteously. As you can see, these rule also apply to surfing and other water games. Although now it's not a good time for outdoor water sports, but for people who live in the south, everyday is a good day for stand up paddle boarding! If you are considering to buy yourself a brand-new inflatable stand up paddle board or start your iSUP boards rental business, contact Sunjoy Inflatables to custom high quality and unique inflatable SUP boards today!