SPASMS........

b-board
September 2007
Is it a common thing to get spasms when you are in the water ( atlantic side)

what do u do to get rid of the spasm?

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Darkhorse
September 2007
bahahha!
welcome to cape town bro.
the best thing to do is lie in the water, start laughing and then just get demolished my the next set... cause you have NO OTHER CHOICES!

hehe

everyone gets them, theyre 100% normal. after bboarding a while, ull get them less and less.

but seriously the best thing is to let the ocean take u for her prisoner!
bboard1
September 2007
What you have to do is stretch it. it will hurt like hell bru but it helps it dissappear faster. trust me. i got one in 10ft surf in durbs and it was hell.
Elementree
September 2007
I am no sports guru, but warming up properly before you surf is generally a good way to avoid cramping...

Stretch your muscles properly in order to warm them up and get the blood flowing...

I once heard that taking Zinc tablets helps avoid cramping, but i am not sure how true that is...

No way to avoid them forever...no matter how fit you are...one thing is for sure though.

The more you surf, the better you eat, the fitter you will become and with that avoid things such as cramp.
bboard1
September 2007
Another thing that also helps with cramps is salt. if you just add a bit of salt to your food and generally increase your sodium intake your cramps should happen less and less often.
hope it helps
peterbee
October 2007
Or just swallow half the next wave that thrashes you while you fight the spasms... that shouold sort your salt levels out!
Jmo
October 2007
Just to add to the mix:
Dehydration causes cramp, so try drink heaps of water before going for a surf.
And I know that magnesium supplements prevent cramping (I took these for a while when it got really bad, and they worked).

Otherwise Elementree got the rest, warm up and be healthy.
Francois
October 2007
Eat a banana before your session. I've never cramped up in a session after eating a piesang. Piesang, such a funny word. Almost as funny as guava
Len at Science
October 2007
only three reasons for cramping.

1 dehidration
2 calsium and magnesium deficiantcy (hope its spelled right)
3 overuse of the mussle

thats all from bodyboarding to comarades marathon
b-board
October 2007
Thanx for the quick replies guys.

I will try out some of the suggestions and ghet back to you if they work.
ronald911
October 2007
Well you o's get SPASMS in Cape, I'm so unfit I even get them in Durban.....

OWELL
ronald911
October 2007

Francois wrote:
Eat a banana before your session. I've never cramped up in a session after eating a piesang. Piesang, such a funny word. Almost as funny as guava

Thats tru.... I read remember I read in a ZIGZAG mag a couple of years ago to eat a banana before going for a surf session, so hopefully it works.
bboard1
October 2007
Bru. Wtf are u reading ZIGZAG for.
Chilternburt
October 2007
umm a couple years ago ZigZag produced a very fine bodyboarding mag while Watkins was at the helm...
Spy Dude
October 2007
ZIG ZAG IS PURE EVIL....

although i did have a laugh yesterday, was clearing out old mags for recycling... and found a zag with the back cover holding 4 of my photos, one of them being mikey Q in a DK barrel at Kbay. Saddly inside was one of the most racist articles against bodyboarders.

I pity zag for breeding the hate amongst surfers against us.

I respect wavescape for breed a understanding of fairness and tolerance for all water sports.
SmT
October 2007
My Girlfriend surfs, her sister as well and so does her Dad, I get to page through the Zigzag and Spy's right in saying that they breed the hatred against Bodyboarders but I had a good laugh in the last issue!!!
First, they have a little write-up saying how cool it is to sign-up to the Zag online mailing list, you can win prizes, yay! Luck guy who won a prize is none other than our very own Peter Lambert, well done on winning a brand new custom Surfboard as well as some nice kit from Island Style, if only they knew, hahahaha!
Second, there's a nice readers letter about why he hates Bodyboarders, funny thing though, all the things he lists are what makes us BETTER, taking off deeper, etc. He also says we copied them with our DK, airs and cutbacks??? Yup, apparently they invented the Rodeo Flip and we then went back in time and started doing ARS's, damn us copiers!!!
Lastly, 2pages after this letter, double page shot of Mr Sacha Specker, cruising on a surfboard through a very pretty Barrell, nice! Slowly, we are taking over, Mwuhahahahahahahahaha!
Anyway, I like surfers (some of them), I read the Zag and I watch surfing Vids, does it make me less of a bodyboarder???
p.s It was a surfer who first started me in Bodyboarding!
b-board
October 2007
i hate surfers..... they always geting in my way

A BARREL IS ALWAYS BETTER WITH A BODYBOARDER INSIDE
that NINJA kid
October 2007
YEah, I wanted a surf-board back in Std. 1 and never got it, fastforward a few years and I got a bodyboard which makes me smile knowingly looking back...

I have surfer friends and when South Africa had no bodyboarding magazines I was even a zag subscriber, seeing fresh Saffa waves kept me stoked when I had no net and no literary sustenance...

Surfers are just people, and hating them is the same as racism, people don't suck because they're a different colour or ride differently, they just are either nice or crap people...

Dammit, I am not preaching... sorry.
bboard1
October 2007
I don't hate surfers. my whole family are them but i stopped reading ZIGZAG when they started chuning bodyboarders broken for "Stealing" there waves. Bit of a principle thing really. I do also watch movies like young guns and fair bits.
ronald911
October 2007

bboard1 wrote:
Bru. Wtf are u reading ZIGZAG for.

That was even before I started bodyboarding (I only started 2 bodyboard da beginning of this year).....

Well now the SIXTY40 Mag rules!! Stuff ZIGZAG!!
ronald911
October 2007

bboard1 wrote:
I don't hate surfers. my whole family are them but i stopped reading ZIGZAG when they started chuning bodyboarders broken for "Stealing" there waves. Bit of a principle thing really. I do also watch movies like young guns and fair bits.

Ya that quite swak of dat surfers. They steal just as much of our waves.
Well I dont h8 surfers either its just startin to get f. annoying that surfers and bodyboarders always have to be against each other.

oh well.
bboard1
October 2007
Bru, try livin in my house. the alwasy accuse me of being a usless boogeyboarder and then they cross examin me why i bodyboard instead of surf.

Back to the topic. I got my first sixty40 mag last night and it is the business, gonna subscribe ASAP.
October 2007
ja banananana so you can monkey around in the water...

or

just use one leg at a time but the side effect might be paddling around in cricles

hahaha..

no for real all of the above from the other guys!! Stretching is vital i find and cant remember the last time i cramped..but theres more to then just a 5 min stretch everytime you go in the water.. im talking about 30-60mins a day everyday with lots of water

good luck!

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