The surf board of first usage is 5 meters or so, weigh 50~60 kilograms.After the World War II, appeared foam plastics plank, the knothole shape also has an improvement.The surf board that uses now is 1.5~2.7 meters long, breadth about 60 centimetre and thick 7~10 centimetre, the plank is light and even, the both ends is slightly narrow and small before or after and have the tail fin to stabilize a function together under behind.For the sake of the increment friction, there is a kind of wax quality outside on the plank.All weights of surf boards only have 11~26 kilograms.
Surfing sport is first an athlete lie or kneel on the surf board and by hand row to the place of having the wave to make it as point of departure.When the wave push surf board glides, the athlete makes the surf board kept to start a body in the front of wave, two legs draw(usually is an equilibrium leg fore, control leg at after) naturally, two knees are tiny to bend, aimless wave, quickly skid.