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With most aircraft, the grass is more likely to result in a noseover than a hard surface. My flight experience includes 200 hours in a two place experimental amphib I built from a kit. When I sold it after 4 years the new owner, a higher time pilot than me, after a lot of check ride time with me and an instructor friend of mine asked me, “what is the most important thing to remember?” “I said always raise the gear on climb out no matter where you plan to land. “He asked why is that? “ I said, “A wheels up landing on concrete is better than a wheel down landing on water”. He looked at me funny.

After about six months of flying the amphib, be destroyed it in a wheels down water landing. He and his passenger were uninjured and swam to shore. The plane’s heaviest damage came during the recovery of the upside down plane by some nut with a barge and a crane who lifted the plane full of water straight up. Pile of parts.

Ouch, on your aircraft - hard to see so much of your life trashed.

On the noseover - is the kinetic friction of aluminum on concrete (or asphalt) lower than that of AL on grass? I don’t know. Of course, one ditch, and you WILL noseover.

Always land WITH the furrows...

After about six months of flying the amphib, be destroyed it in a wheels down water landing. He and his passenger were uninjured and swam to shore. The plane’s heaviest damage came during the recovery of the upside down plane by some nut with a barge and a crane who lifted the plane full of water straight up. Pile of parts.

Ouch! Too bad. Looks like it was a fun bird.