How many have you tried?
How many variations of wave riding have you tried? Three? Seven? If I really put my thinking cap on I can personally count bodysurfing, surfing surfing, boogie boarding and once I caught a wave in an inflatable boat so… four. If I keep that thinking cap on and count things I haven’t done but know exist, I can add SUP, foil, SUP foil, goat boat, skimboarding Tom Curren style, boogie boarding Danny Kim style, windsurfing, wind foiling, alaia bringing the number to… fourteen.
Apparently, though, I’m missing very many, maybe even hundreds, for Port Edgar Watersports in sunny Edinburgh, Scotland is promising that attendees can participate in 500 water sport activities next weekend and let’s turn to Edinburgh Live to learn more. Let’s not waste any more time with thinking caps.
The home of one of Scotland’s largest watersports centres in South Queensferry throws open its hatches this weekend with a jam-packed programme of try out sessions, DJs, street food, shopping, and kids activities.
If you’ve ever fancied yourself a sailor, now’s your chance to test your seaworthiness. Port Edgar Marina is hosting around 500 taster sessions this Saturday and Sunday in activities like paddle boarding, windsurfing, sailing, and sea kayaking.
Anyone who has thought about signing up to one of the courses at Port Edgar Watersports can now try before they buy. This weekend anyone can sample the 60-minute sessions for a bargain price of £5 or £10 each.
Now, I know that “wave riding” and “water sport activities” are not synonymous BUT there is certainly more cross-over than the fourteen I came up with so what am I missing?
And if you had to take up a non-surfing wave riding pastime which would you choose?
Me?
Oh, without a doubt this…
according to jeep you can surf the wind, mud, roads, mountains, air, bodies of dead children, and the crushed dreams of kolohe andino
Much respect to the Rincon staple fireman in the headline pic. Had the rivermouth on lockdown with that buttski.
lol, I recognized him the second I saw the pic
Don’t worry, South Queensferry is firmly up the estuary and nowhere near any surf.
Other water adjacent activities in Scotland include losing your chips (fries to you seppos) to the fucking massive seagulls, puking up over a sea wall, falling in while drunk, drowning, chucking bottles and other random shit into the ocean, slipping on slimy algae, watching other people fall in, watching other people puke over sea walls, watching other people fall in, slip or drown.
You missed surf-splaining and not-drowning-just-waving.
You missed boogie foiling. Coming to a beach near you!
“I surf on boats. I surf everything.”- Jeep
Alls I know is I haven’t tried riding ELO for an hour like some podcasters have
Yeah the Shippies commentary makes the WSL guys sound like the best of Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, Robin Williams etc
If you are watching Keramas over shippies right now you should be ashamed of yourself
Hey I remember that big/kayaker dude at the Rincon!!! He gave me one of the best waves ever, big day insider we knew would barrel, he didnt want that…..super cool giant person tho, like a big kid, he never wore a wetsuit all winter long!! He was a fixture there for years…not sure he is still above ground tho.
I can’t take the crowds anymore. I’m going to start whacking people left right and centre.
Me at my local https://m.youtube.com/watch…
oregon has some radical inlets.
Depoe Bay is my favorite
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Whoa ! That’s sketchy !
yeah, im sure more than a few fisherman have died trying to get back in during large surf
We’ve got some fucken treacherous bars here in NZ, ck.
But that is a fucken nightmare.
Nothing like a half day of sport fishing and potential drowning
Isn’t ‘water sport activities’ a euphemism?
Makes 5-10&* seem like a good deal either way.
*Pound symbol not working, neither is the Euro…
Surf raging, surf snaking, surf chandeliering, surf boasting, surf complaining, surf shunning, surf cursing, …..gosh, I’m sure there’s more I’m forgetting I’ve participated in.
Surf wanking, Surf pooping, surf peeing, surf dreaming, surf checking, surf injuries-enjoying.
Nothing beats a huge snake like evacuation in the tropics.
Surf wanking? Is that like a cheater 5?