Things Anne and I learned during surfing lessons last weekend:
1. How to catch a party wave. Not much of a party when you aren’t skilled enough to keep the boards from crossing onto each other after about 7 seconds on the wave. More like a party that gets broken up at 10:00pm then an all-night rager.
2. Ocean water forced up your nose at ungodly speeds makes all the food you eat for hours afterward taste like you are eating off of a salt lick.
3. Board shorts stay on when falling off of your board. Bikini bottoms don’t.
4. If you are waist-high in water and everyone around you is in knee-deep water then you are probably going to be swallowed up by a rip tide. Swim parallel to the shore, people!
5. The sting ray shuffle. Our surf instructor immediately negated this safety tip by letting us know he never does the ray-deflecting shuffle. And given how much effort it takes to drag an eight foot board against the waves, we didn’t pay much mind to our footwork.
6. Surf instructors are single-handedly keeping the high-five alive.
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It's hard to believe you endured all of those insufferable surfers we went to school with for all of those years only to succumb at the ripe old age of 30-something. More power to you, though, for trying something new! Next up is golf lessons for Dave, right? :)
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