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All about Surfest: Surfest, Newcastle in Australia is an annual sports competition for surfing which takes place in Newcastle, New South Wales. It began in the year of 1985 which was an initiative, taken by the Newcastle City Council and was the world's most opulent surfing competition. It runs for a span of thirteen days and from the current year 2007, it will be held at the Merewether Beach, as it has already taken place between Newcastle Beach and South Newcastle Beach in the past. Being the only international sporting event taking place annually, it beckons a lot of surfers, even more than 200 with many coming from the world over. Former winners from this sporting event are; Mark Richards and world champion Kelly Slater.
Surfest, Newcastle is now a days the most talked about event in the world of water sports. Surfing involves a lot of strategy and dexterousness of the body maneuvers and a whole lot of energy.
How to surf?
In this particular water sport the surfer is taken by the water of a breaking wave on a surfboard. There are a lot of surfing categories which include; regular stand-up surfing, kneeboarding, bodyboarding, surf-skiing, bodysurfing, windsurfing, and kite surfing. This sport involves surfing in huge water waves, which are very difficult to ride and sometimes not possible to hold by paddling with the face down, due to their fast onward motion. All about the maneuvers in the surfing:
The first thing what a surfer should do is to read a wave which could be worth riding. A surfer can only be classified as a good surfer, if he is able to catch a favourable wave which most of the surfers can't do.
The ability of a surfer is tested when he is able to face the adverse mode of the waves and keeps up his balance. His skills can be understood when he is able to turn and make a carve in the wave movements. Surfest, Newcastle is a happening event in Australia and is visited by a lot of people all over the globe.
The common turns which the surfers use in this sport are:
- Cutback: - Turning back toward the breaking part of the wave.
- Floater: - Riding on the top of the breaking curl of the wave.
- Off the lip: - Banking off the top of the wave.
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