Learning the art of big wave surfing is not as easy as people think. As with anything that you take seriously, it is more than just a hobby and will require thousands of hours of good practice. Because it is also a very intensive sport, you will need great physical strength as well as endurance and you will also need to be a quick thinker with a penchant for strategic thinking. You will need to spend a lot of time on the waves or in the water and in your free time you should also be into other sports as well and work out.

It’s a complete lifestyle change

There are thousands of above average surfers and that is not the kind of wave surfingthis article is about. This information is targeted at those people who really want to be different and who really want to get to the top.

To do this will take a complete lifestyle change and a new mind. You need to make surfing your passion, not just a hobby or something you like to do in your free time. If you really want to make it to the top, you have to live and breathe wave surfing.

This means at least 300 days in the water out of every year, regardless of the weather. Snow, rain, some people even go surf in a storm they are so passionate, although this is not something you should attempt when you are still learning.

Physical strength and endurance

It’s no good even bothering to try if you are not physically fit. You can keep surfing small waves (3-6 feet) in more beginner-oriented areas just to keep practicing while you are gaining body strength, but you should really get yourself to a gym regularly and do the work required to build those muscles. And we’re not talking about those pansy “muscle toning” exercises that all the broscience kids tell you about — do squats, dead lifts, chin ups and bench presses. Aim to be able to lift your own body weight times two. When you wake up in the morning, 50 pushups is how you start the day. On days when you work out, don’t surf. Don’t surf the next day either, let your body rest and rebuild itself. Maybe do a light swim or surf in the evening that day. Next morning, get out there as early as you can and surf until the sun goes down.

Motor skills and mental reaction time

Mountain biking, trail running and parkour are all sports that are highly recommended for surfers to do at least once a week, instead of a workout in the gym. This is because to be a good surfer, you also need to develop your motor skills and reaction time. These sports allow you to make quick decisions as you navigate challenging obstacles and can be a great asset to anyone who wants to take up wave surfing.

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Being a Pick Up Artist (PUA) is not just about delivering a one-liner in a bar to a hot girl. That will only get you a slap in the face. It works like that in the movies and in real life. PUAs — or members of the seduction community — actually have weekly meetings in local groups called “lairs”, share stories online on forums and post and comment on blogs detailing their successes and failures with women. The movement was started by Ross Jeffries back in the ’90s, who promoted a series of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) techniques that he termed “speed seduction”. The idea is to make yourself attractive to women by employing courtship techniques that could be compared to animal subroutines that we evolved with. The literature behind the movement draws a lot of its argumentation from evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.

OK, so how does it work?

Now that your attention has been grabbed, let’s analyze how the whole PUA thing works. The goal of a “speed seducer” is to achieve success with women through scientific and empirical means, instead of relying on good looks or intuition. PUAs even reject normal social courtship conventions and ridicule the whole “dating” scene, popularized by Jerry Seinfeld on his show in the ’80s and ’90s. Instead, a man practicing seduction will assume that women are naturally passive and will not initiate contact — thus forcing men to be the ones who have to approach them. Some members of the community will make literally hundreds of these approaches every day, in order to practice their moves.

Additionally, PUAs completely reject the notion that to be successful with a woman, you have to spoil them with gifts and flowers. In fact, they teach that this is “supplication” and does not befit an “alpha male”. Pick Up Artists do not just work alone either; sometimes they bring a best friend from their group who will observe the interchanges and then afterward comment and rate the approach. This second dude is known as a “wingman”.

Does it really work?

From the amount of blogs, websites, e-books, DVDs and CDs available, and the media interest generated by Strauss’s book on the topic called The Game, there is some grain of truth to the whole ideology. However, it is not without controversy. Obviously this kind of approach to women can be construed as sexist by some and downright misogynist by others.

That is why members of the movement and its leading authors and thinkers stress that this is not so much about a “system” that will “guarantee scoring with a woman”, but that it is more about a method that men can use to restore self-confidence and boost their ego, so they have an easier time socializing and being around women in the first place.

Apparently, “speed seduction” routines will also help Pick Up Artists overcome difficulties not only with their social skills, but it will give them the confidence to improve their outer appearance as well, such as physical fitness, fashion sense and grooming.