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Tandem Surfers: Loved by Themselves, Loathed by Others
What could be better than holding up a female counterpart in a gymnast-like pose while surfing on a wave? Not much. Except maybe getting the barrel of your life, or launching a 360 air - well, that’s what the regular surfers say. They want to do what the tandem surfers do, but they don’t want to commit to riding a longboard and learning how to hold someone up instead of actually surfing. To be honest, there’s nothing really spectacular about tandem surfing. You could do it in any situation: Riding a skateboard, Oh, lets hold someone up while we do it! Rollerblading, yes , we could hold someone up while we do that too! Walking to the grocery store, lets change things up a bit and carry someone on our shoulders! It might be a good thing to do just for variety, but then, like I said above, it’ll take some time (and some skill from the holder-up-ee). And it’s kinda hard to look up while you hold your partner up anyways, so what’s the point?
If you’re a tandem surfer, good for you! You do something that most surfers don’t do!
But there is some elegance, I just don’t like the wave being wasted in such a way.
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Will Farrel and Josh whatshisname should definitely do Blades of Glory, but for tandem surfing. Love it.
Good point!
My partner and I have been tandem surfing for over 6yrs on the side of our regular surfing.
Good tandem surfing involves a mix of progressive surfing and a graceful display of artistic lifts and poses.
From our involvement with the current tandem movement, teams and couples are missing the point of what tandem is all about and are just focussing on being a hero and performing challenging muscle bound lifts all to impress the ego, rather then promoting tandem as an extension of surfing and that it a combination of surfing and lifts and working in unison with a beautiful girl, which is a unique thing.
The key here is getting back to basics and the roots of surfing.
For tandem surfers to get more respect, they need to respect other surfers and keep it real i.e. get more out of the wave!
For surfers who don’t tandem, they need to respect the history of surfing and understand that tandem is an authentic part of the surf/waterman culture.
If this is acheived then everyone will have a lot more fun and positive growth out in the water, which is what surfing and life is all about.
Good comment above. Keep up the good work guys.
Hello!
This is funny to see that you have chosen the Eurosurf video, because it is a very bad way to represent tandem surfing, especially because the surfers on it are almost beginners, and the waves were very bad for tandem that day… that’s why tandem surfing contests are not the best way to show it on such conditions.
If you want to see tandem surfing on good waves, here are some nice videos:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOWl8Oi2U_4
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh-NqzbQ4j4
Enjoy!