Surfing Waves

at first i got owned couldnt lie on the damn thing without it wobbling everywhere and paddling was hard work! Took a few beatings off whitewater, waited for the lull then paddled like a mofo and got outback.

tried to sit on the board, took a while to find the sweet spot as the nose kept sinking and it shot out from under me backwards a few times . Found said sweet spot on board and spent a nice few minutes waiting for a set.

Paddled for a wave and caught it first time . Rode it in on my stomach, and when paddling back out I decided to try and do a duckdive (having never really attempted one before)

got owned again

a few white waters later I seem to have gotten the hang of sinking the front of the board and kneeling on the tailpaid to try and sink the tail - this bit needs work tho i could get outback easily enough.

Had an ace time just practising catching waves and duckdiving, tried to stand up one or twice but it was way too wobbly so will sav that for next time

About 2 hours later I dragged myself out having just about knackered my arms, was having trouble even lifting them out of the water!

stoked

And you didnt txt to invite me? How could you?

i actually was going to text and invite you, but i thought you'd be in work!! I'm going to go out again tomorrow so if you want to hook up then come on over!

I havent been in work all day day off!!!! damn you!!!! ive got work tommorow grrrrrr have to wait till the weekend now

Sounds awesome Jo, I love the feeling of being so knackered you know you couldn't possibly have anymore fun apart from the pub sesh to recover

i witnessed the to tired to paddle, on the weekend, and that was on my first paddle out, although i stayed in for 3 hours

Nice one Jo!

How short is your shortboard, and what where you using before?

its 6ft6, 19.5, 2 5/8 (i think).

before that i was riding a 7ft4, 21, 2 5/8

dont quote me on those dimesions tho, theyre just off the top of my head!

IdRatherBeSurfing wrote:its 6ft6, 19.5, 2 5/8

before that i was riding a 7ft4, 21, 2 5/8

Consider yourself quoted!

(sorry, I'm in a bit of a funny mood at the moment)

looks like u had the time of your life

thats cool...good for you. there are a lot of people in this world that arent willing to get beat up trying someting new (or in your case just a harder version of what you already do). im new to surfing and ive got all sorts of folks saying things like "dont you get cold?" "thats too hard, i would never do that!" or my favorite... "we're too old to learn to surf!".

robboxedit wrote:thats cool...good for you. there are a lot of people in this world that arent willing to get beat up trying someting new (or in your case just a harder version of what you already do).

a harder beating than i normally get so true

IdRatherBeSurfing wrote:
a harder beating than i normally get so true

ooh er
Jo you'll improve rapidly

welcome.