Stephen Hudson
Stephen belongs to: Tynemouth Surfers
Stephen grew up in Tynemouth and learnt to surf through his father. Stephen owns the Tynemouth Surf Company and has an integral role in running the O’Neill Surf Championships.
Stephen was interviewed by Kylea Little on 17 November 2005. The interview took place at Tynemouth Surf Company and lasted 18 minutes and 13 seconds.
The basic surfing techniques
"Basic surfing techniques"
Basic surfing techniques is, well, basically, to start with you’re trying to kind of like catch the wave and then actually stand on it and go along. And then we’ll start to improve you from the moment you can actually comfortably paddle, turn your board, catch a wave and stand up, and then it’s all improvement from then onwards. You can actually only get better, so the more you actually do the sport, the quicker you’re able.
We find most people on lessons are, at least three quarters of the pupils can actually ride on the first lessons and then it’s just a matter of continuing and improving your performance.
We get people coming, it’s very strange actually, it was quite, I was quite looking forward to seeing what sort of people and ages came, but it’s come in basically from all walks of life- you’ve got people from 60 years old down to six years old, and all sorts of professions are joining the sport- mums, dads, students- all sorts, so it’s around the whole circle, basically.
Stephen has 11 memories in the memorynet:
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Starting out- The benefits of surfing
- The basic surfing techniques
Outside the Tynemouth Surf Company
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