How To Do A Hang ten

To be a good long boarder you need to have style. Style comes from balance and coordination. A trick that utilized both of these skills is a hang ten. A hang ten is when a surfer walks to the front of his board and stands with all of his toes just barely hanging off of his board.

To do a hang ten you need to catch a wave with a long face so you have time to get to the nose of your board. Once on the wave you’re going to slowly walk up to the nose of your board. The less wobbly you are the better it will look so try to stay stable. As you get closer to the nose of your board you will start to speed up, and feel your fins lift up. If you walk to fast up to your nose then you will pearl (pearling is when the nose of your board goes under the water) and fall on your face. Once you get to the nose you want to stand straight up and bask in the feeling of flowing along with the wave.