SOME NAMES...

...Nose, tail, fin, rail, plugo, deck, bottom...

...How many names!!! I've draw this plant for non-surfer visitors that want to understand our language.

THE GRIP...

If you decide to put a grip on the tail of your surfboard I give you o advice: put it in correspondence with the central fin. Pratically the end of the fin in the back side must correspond wich the end of your grip from the side of the foot step. 

LEASH - LINE...

Surely you have noted that all the leach-lines are built with the part which is bound to the surfboard with a double string wide 2.5 centimetres (1 inch) and with a lock in strap.

This wide and soft string is useful to avoid that the side of the tail of your surfboard can be ruined when you fall down or when you lose the surfboards making a duck-diving, in these situations the surfboard is badly tossed by the waves but the leach-line could stay inserted among the fins and lever on the edge of the surfboards. To permit the string work it’s very important that the little line which connect the leach-line to the surfboard is extremely short!!!

After you have connected the leach-line to the board, you have to control that the line which goes from the "plug" to the leach-line doesn’t touch the border of the board, because of its short surface of support of the line on the border of the board you could find the stern shorn with the leach-line which goes out completly detached.

THE DUCK DIVE...

The duck dive is used for passing under the waves with the surfboards, to reach the lineup it’s important to make it welland in correct way. Reading some magazines I noted an advice: you have to raise your arms moving your weight forwards, to make sinking the bow of the surfboard, and you have to lean a knee on the deck raising contemporanily other leg extended on high.

I think that it could be useful in the first times, my advice is to learn to lean a foot on the grip instrad of the knee and to push the stern towards the ground. I noted that the best surfers act in this way, giving two advantages: 

1) you’ll succeed in sinking more leaving much distance between the surfboard and you.

2) You’ll not ruin the deck of the surfboard.

Let’s repeat the movements: you have to grip the borders of the surfboard in your hands, to raise the arms moving your body forward nodding a plunge with your head then put your foot in the centre of the grip (or on the stern if you don’t use the grip), extend your leg and at the same time raise other leg in high, when the wave will cover you completely remove your foot from the stern and put together your legs approaching the surfboard to your body.

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