This week I’ve been joined in San Clemente by Harriet and Alex, who arrived on Tuesday and Friday respectively. It’s really great to have them both here, not only for their excellent company but also that special laughter and joy that your children always bring and it’s also cool that they’re keen surfers.
Ahead of...
When planning my trip out here, one of the things I wanted to avoid happening was ending up spending 8 weeks or so surfing and then just being in the apartment on my own. I felt that it was important that as I had this fantastic opportunity I should make the very most of...
Whenever I’ve been here in the summer Major League Baseball (MLB) games have very often been showing on TV and having watched it for a while with a beer or two, it’s been entertaining to watch as it’s a fairly quick game with a good amount of action, but as I don’t know the rules I’ve never really understood...
So that’s two full weeks completed now, probably time for a brief review of progress:
Ability: showing promise – need to read waves better so that more correct ones are picked, thereby increasing ride rate
Technique: Pop-up definitely improving, as feet landing in correct place more often; paddling could be less flailing and more focussed strokes;...
Back at Oceanside today to meet with Carl and some of his buddies who run an adaptive surf club for people with disabilities called Waves4all and he’d invited me to come along and help out for the day. Got there just after 8am and it was already busy on the beach, with families having...