What I like about.................Saturdays surf

is that I AGAIN got VERY little and
again will paddle out tomorrow, knowing that it may be the same,
but it will be equally as gratifying, in some strange and beautiful way, as if it were epic conditions.

To a degree that is

surf on...

What I like about ..............this weeks surf

Was getting my ass kicked over and over for no apparent reason other than to remind me that

I have a long way to go
a huh huh

Sound weird ?

Last Saturday I went out and I got about 12-15 waves in 40 minutes
Easter Sunday I went out and I got about 1-2 waves in 40 minutes
and
watched the reef going off in the distance.
Thursday went out with Pat and Dave in the PM
Yeah too high tide but......
I'm catching rails, cart-wheeling off the front of the board on jacking high tiders, falling,
did a truly epic pearl virtually sinking my whole 10'3" big board and my face.
etc.etc
Today, Friday, I take the day off to hang with Laurie on her birthday,
but sneak out for a 0600 am surf.
I paddle out reluctantly(peaky close and soupy on the inside)
and it's a kinda tough paddle.
I finally get outside with only 1 other....Stewart.
I got one actual wave right about then, the rest of it was another lesson in humility.
Paddled for many a shoulder/head high peak caught 3 really.Those 3 were jacking so high by the time I could descend that my 10'3" board was more like a diving board
with nothing but air under 8' of it and the water about 6' straight down.
They weren't floaters, you need water/air mix for that.
They were like trying to fly a surfboard, oh, and that doesn't work.
The last one of "those" was directly in front of 2 who were paddling out and it must have been pretty good from their surface level view point. I heard the F*ck Yeah DUDE all the way down and boom.....really thought I was gonna snap the board in half on that.
Catch in some fast white water, get out and high tail it to the truck.
Up on the cliff a surf bud, Mike, just says

"Don't feel bad"

Ha ha Mike
I don't
This is what I like
cartwheel on
fly on
drop on
pearl on
surf on
surf on
Keep On

What I like about

this morning was that I went in to it with a mission.
A mission to go in no matter what the conditions were.
No waves no matter I'll just paddle my big board, ya know, get strong. Uh Huh
I got in at 0600 and there were only surfers at the reef, or to put it another way, nobody was where I was going to surf, it just looked like so much suckage.
I didn't really give that notion much of a nod, I just talked to a COP for 5 minutes while suiting up,?
stretched
and went in and surfed.(no cramps either, after 2 weeks of Magnesium and supplements+ stretching that damn right leg of)
SO Hands clasped and relaxed behind my back, no slack jawing on the take off/pop ups, no squatting...
I am working on developing a style ? > ! !!? or SoMe KINda Style.
Anywho I surfed alone for 40 minutes AND GOT 12-15 WAVES! !
I KNOW ! !
YEP !
Then the swell started to show and sets of head highs rolled into the south reef (Igor's)
I think I got into 1 more decent wave after a few friends came out.
Solitude and flying across the top of the water...
That's what I like about
this morning.







surf on

What I like about

surfing is kind of a never ending thing I imagine.
I am getting "tips" on how to "develop some ( ANY ) style", from many sources, at this point.
Great..... my deepest fears realized, I'm still kookin in up.
Went out this Sunday am and went deliberately out of the way of anyone so I could work on these issues alone.

Nice call on my part, as I probably got 12-15 rides in less than an hour.
I love that about surfing
that no 2 days appear to be the same.

nothing profound here

surf on

Got a couple

Everything gonna be ok now

.....even if my love described me,on one of my rides this morning, as an arm flailing fledgling quail
with a JFK dismount.
Of course this is accurate
so stoked
flail on

All work and no surf makes Bill a dull boy ! !

Better get some tomorrow,

or
there is going to be trouble
Big Trouble !