Ali Hale wrote an article on her blog about creating more time in your day, and it got me to thinking about the same thing with regards to surfing. Although you cannot actually create more time – I checked and even Einstein couldn’t get his hands around that task – the management of tasks and [...]
As tourists and residents fled the Outer Banks of North Carolina, a step ahead of the potentially ruinous effect of Hurricane Earl on their Labor Day weekend, hundreds of beachgoers of a certain type were making a beeline in the opposite direction. Storms following a path like Earl’s, running roughly parallel to the coast, can [...]
It’s a wonder that this sport we all love so much is called surfing at all, since we are actually paddling about 90 percent of the time when we are out in the water! Although the glory is in ripping wicked-bad bottom turns and busting out massive air, much of the work in getting into [...]
It has been six months since I last paddled out into the water, and my quickly aching muscles remind me of how much work it takes to paddle out into the lineup. But the ocean feels so familiar, so much like home, that the aches and pain are easily set aside in lieu of the [...]
Every surfer that has begun to move away from the world of surf instructors and beginner breaks, and onto the singular form of learning and fabled “home breaks” knows how critical it is to get the “pop-up” just right. Over anticipate the pop-up and you can ensure that you’ll be watching the back of the [...]
The long term newbie must understand that he or she falls under a different light for other surfers than short term of vacationing surfers. Whereas short term surfers come and go, and by that nature is easier to ignore as potential dangers … long term newbies will more than likely show up at the same [...]
I took my first yoga class after a running injury left me unable to do much else. Imagine my surprise when what I thought would be an hour of light stretching left me sweaty and sore in muscles I didn’t even know I had. But I was hooked—it didn’t take long for me to fall in love [...]
I have a very hard time making decisions. Most of the major decisions in my life, where I went to junior college, university, who I have dated, where I live, have been made at the last minute without much thought as to why, just with feeling or reaction. Whenever I get stuck inside my head, [...]
You have seen them in Waikiki hundreds of times … groups of surfers in identical rash guards bearing some surf school logo, dragging foam-topped blue longboards, or massive plumeria adorned rental surfboards. From the famous Waikiki “Walls” to “Rockpiles”, surf school instructors can be seen leading groups of first-time surfers into the great blue ocean. [...]
