This is like.. the best topic ever!
Yea yea. That's an amazing feeling that one long as first ride in. I still remember mine. Happened yesterday. You feel so

after

for so long.
Most of the time I catch one of those magic moment waves I don't really know how I got there. It's like... you go through the process in your mind for every waking second since you start learning... ok, watch waves, pick spot, watch waves, THERE'S ONE, turn board, ok... walk board around initially.. start paddling like _____, and then all those million other little steps and
all of a sudden you feel like ... you just invented weekends!... or something!!
I never ever ever EVER believed it possible. that I would be able to stand up an a moving form of water on a floating plank... and THEN.. even have enough control to tell it to go right or left because the wave's closing out to the right!!!! haaa haaaa
STOooooKE!!
I love that you guys get as much stoke out of this as I do. Crazy a!