I've been studying for the PT board exams all month, and I decided I needed to go surfing the Saturday before the exam just for sanity's sake. I decided to stay local but a surf competition was going on at 26th. Matt and Francis were going to be down at HB, but the rest of the gang was going to be at Venice, a place we rarely go to. I knew it was going to be closed out because I was just there the day before studying at the Cow's End, but I wanted to hang with the gang, so I decided to make it out. I expected good sized waves so I took Pinky with me. Christina finally got to take out her new 6 foot Zippy fish, which has a beautiful blue swirly pattern on it. I parked in the residential area and I spotted Christina doing perfect yoga poses on the beach. We chit chat and scan the water for the guys. We're unsure where they are but we start paddling to a group that we think are them but it turns out who we thought were Khang and Dais were actually 2 girls with long black hair :P. However, we soon spotted the gang closer to the pier. As we got there, the guys were all exchanging each other's boards, trying them all out. Good day to do that because the lulls were long enough and the waves were a lot smaller than I had anticipated.
I had a frustrating session with Pinky, as I have been each time taking her out. It's just such a small board, maybe it's too small for me. When I tried paddling for any wave, it felt like I was going nowhere. I dunno, I think I'm just not used to it still. Christina had a great time on her new fish. She was catching a lot of waves that I lot of us were surprised she'd catch. Dais was also catching a bunch when he was on the Zippi board. However, my Zippi inspired 5'6" just wasn't cutting it today I guess. Ah well. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and I'm so happy I went out before my big exam date to clear the nerves.
I had a frustrating session with Pinky, as I have been each time taking her out. It's just such a small board, maybe it's too small for me. When I tried paddling for any wave, it felt like I was going nowhere. I dunno, I think I'm just not used to it still. Christina had a great time on her new fish. She was catching a lot of waves that I lot of us were surprised she'd catch. Dais was also catching a bunch when he was on the Zippi board. However, my Zippi inspired 5'6" just wasn't cutting it today I guess. Ah well. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and I'm so happy I went out before my big exam date to clear the nerves.
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| A nice little right, the day before. |
pinky is a great board! but yes.. she may be too small for you? i don't know. for smaller boards, you have less buoyancy, less margin for error, and less paddle power, so you gotta really dig deep on those strokes to match the speed of the wave. i always find myself exerting more effort on smaller boards, especially on a smaller day. just keep working on pinky if you want to ride her... we didn't all start hopping onto waves when we started shortboarding!
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