To speak about surfing and tradition can surprise since this practice is often proposed like a sporting model emerging in the circle of the STAPS and APPN, through, in particular, the name of « sliding sports ». Colour-bearer of a sporting modernity, surfing and by extension slips it, then proposed according to certain points of view « a lifestyle based on the marginality, the rebellion, the primacy of the feelings, the research of the extreme, the costume ». There would be thus rupture with the more traditional sporting models of the time, developing, the compliance team spirit with the rules, training, security, etc. However, the practice that we observed during many years showed us another thing. Our work on the nonfederate regular surfe...