Pics from 7/25 Surfing Session I

Weather helped us unite! As planned, we held the 1st site-wide surfing session. Instructors are usual suspects (Jennifer and Stacey). 9 people joined this session. "Are we ready to get wiped out together?" "Yeah! Bring it on!"
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First in first, Stacey explained the basics of surfing with demonstration on land for 1st timers. Positioning, paddling, standing, etc. You can not get better lesson than this even if you pay ;-).

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To make the session safe for beginners, we took buddy method. Benjamin buddied up with Jennifer. She is explaining how window works (timing that waves are calm and easy to walk in the water). Benjamin is using fixed N-Gage board from last year (http://teamsnap.blogspot.com/2007/09/wave-is-coming.html).

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There were not many people and the beach looked like our private beach! Jennifer is helping Benjamin hand in hand to walk into the water and position him at the right area to catch waves. Again, free personal lesson! You got to take advantage of this!

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Matt, the sailor, buddied up with Stacey. Matt got Jennifer's board and his ride will be very fast once it catches white water... **********
Stacey is helping Matt to go in and position him in the right area. Water was not that cold. Great day for beginners to try. **********
Lesson continues. Team Jennifer and team Stacey are going in again. We had nice white water. White water has lots of air in it and has more power to push the board, which make it easier to take off.
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Benjamin was great student! Paddling well and catching lots of waves. He even stood couple times (amazing). "I am going to fly!" **********

Rick, who lives close here and surfs a lot, was in deep rough water catching waves here and there. He just came back from the session. He tried Mavericks board first time and seemed to like it.

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"Matt, you did awesome!" Instructor Stacey congratulates Matt's hardwork (including drinking) and is offering a sign of courage "broken tail of N-Gage board" (left over when fixed the board...).
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"Benjamin, you did awesome as well!" He caught the most number of waves in the whole team and we are offering him again a sign of courage "broken tail of N-Gage board".

Never tried surfing? Please join us next time to get the broken tail!

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Of course, we broght a cooler box full of Corona and Heineken ;-). Another nice afternoon with nice people...