How To Duck Dive A Bodyboard

• Push up into a press-up position with your head directly over the nose of your board. As your board begins to sink, shove your knee into the tail to guide it downwards.

• Stretch your other leg out behind you. If your timing is good, the wave should now break over you. Now lay flat against your board and look up at the white-water as it passes over you.

• When it’s passed, move your weight further back on your board and angle upwards. The whole time that you are underwater you should kick with your fins to avoid being dragged back.

The bigger the wave is, the earlier you should aim to become submerged. The main hazard with duck diving at shallow reefs is hitting the reef by going too deep. Avoid this by keeping your hands flat on the boards deck or by clutching the boards rails – don’t put them underneath.

Tips by Rob Barber of Newquay Activity Centre