Surf Dog Championship 2011, Coronado Bay Resort, California, United States

When the waves were flat, surfers persevered with sidewalk surfing, which is now called skateboarding. Sidewalk surfing has a similar feel to surfing and requires only a paved road or sidewalk. To create the feel the wave, surfers even sneak into empty backyard swimming pools to ride in, known as pool skating.
Maneuvers
Surfing begins when the surfer finds a ridable wave on the horizon and then attempts to match its speed (by paddling or sometimes, by tow-in). Once the wave starts to carry the surfer forward, the surfer stands up and proceeds to ride down the face the wave, generally staying just ahead the breaking part (white water) the wave (in a place ten referred to as the pocket or the curl). A common problem for beginners is being unable to catch the wave in the first place, and one sign a good surfer is the ability to catch a difficult wave that other surfers cannot.