At all times, be responsible
for your equipment and respectful of others'.
If it's ignored or treated as something other than
a wave-riding craft, a surfboard can be damaged - or do severe damage
to other boards and people.
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First and simplest to recall: never let your surfboard
go. Throwing your board and relying on your leash to get through
a closeout or broken wave's whitewater is a very bad call in all
but the least crowded and most critical of circumstances. Any other
surfer within 10 or even more yards, particularly behind you, is
immediately placed in serious danger; and there's a chance the leash
may break or otherwise unattach itself, in which case your board's
a loose cannon. This especially applies to riders of thick, heavy
equipment, such as traditional longboards and some bigger-wave guns.
You should consider the possibility that if you can't negotiate
a surf spot without throwing your board away, the spot may not be
for you.
An outrider to this key thought is the need to take
good care of your board. We're all free to endanger ourselves as
much as we like, but super sharp fin edges, broken glass poking
out of unfixed dings, and snapped-off noses can be dangerous to
other surfers too. Such flaws can result in nicks or cuts to your
leash, increasing the likelihood of a loose board in the lineup.
Always do your best to make good on any damage caused
by your surfboard to someone else's board by arranging for a repair
job or in some other manner agreeable to both of you.
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