Friday, June 16th, 2006

Step Into Liquid - Day 2

Disaster.   And yesterday went so well.
The hard part about surfing isn’t standing up and finding balance. The hard part is picking the wave, timing it and having your board at the right angle. When I was in my group class, the instructor did all that work for me. He’d aim the board toward shore, [...]

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Step Into Liquid - Day 1

Today I took my 2 hour surfing lesson at the Eli Howard Surf School. It went much better than my snowboarding experience. I rode several waves to shore on the long foam surf board provided by the school.
I don’t have any photos of my first day of surfing, so go to Laird Hamilton’s web site [...]