I started writing my random motorcycling tips as a way to help some of the newer riders I’ve met think about motorcycling versus “riding a motorcycle.”

Doing DMV-level, USA license-style requirements on a motorcycle is easy. Becoming a motorcyclist is a lot more difficult.

However… Surviving learning to surf is probably easier. Nobody ever ended up dead or in the hospital for target-fixating on a wave.

You mention “motorcycling involves more things to be taken into account as an activity than surfing” I’m affraid this is simply not true. Sure you can turn up at the beach and see a wave and try and surf the white water, but to properly surf you have to take into account swell direction, swell size, wind strength, wind direction, what the tide is doing, where the rips are, whats under the water, how does the wave peel, where is the take off spot etc.

After all that you’ve got to decide the route you will paddle out. When you eventually get out (this involves several different skills on it’s own) you’ve got to paddle into a moving wave, catch it then jump up and stand on a board that is being pushed along by the wave and then steer and trim to remain in the right place. All this takes a lot of skill, fitness and judgement and takes years to learn properly.

I remember my first go on a motorcycle involved me sitting on it and pulling a throttle then when it got too fast hitting the brakes. In contrast my first surf involved me spending most of the time underwater

They are my two favourite activities, give surfing a try and you will see what I mean.