Surf Report

July 5, 2008 - El Porto

Han Solo. Caught nothing but white water today. I am starting to develop the bad habit of knee boarding. I wore the Paul Frank bumble bee shorts with a rash guard. The shorts keep revealing my ass.

July 5, 2008 - Bolsa Chica

Han Solo. I woke up at 6:30AM hoping to go out with Big Wave Dave. I couldn't get a hold of Big D. I went out solo at around 7:30ish. I enjoy going this early. It would be nice to get the mrs. out here to learn with me.

Low tide. The waves were pretty small and made it easy to learn. BUT, i ended up nose diving 5 times. A surf lady asked, "How's it going?". I told her, "I'm eating a lot of sand, nose dived 2 or 3 times". She told me to sit further up the board, I ended up nosing diving 2 more times. Good advice, but bad execution. I still suck.

I look pathetic 98% of the time that I am out in the water: Board slapping my face, swallowed by white water, swallowing water, or my personal best, getting pulled under water then popping back up with the board on top of your head, real sexy. Despite the embarrassment I hope that we'll start to see improvement in future posts.

The 2% of looking normal goes a long way if you smile and have fun. This is the only activity, besides helping at church, that gets me active both physically and mentally. Mentally? Yeah, we can talk about that more later.

I am thinking my guardian angel is giving me this outlet for the future. Nintendo made me a sloth. These days, I am having a lot more fun. Future Investment: Camera. You see a lot of pretty things out there and have a lot of great memories. Best preserve them.

I saw the old guy with the fisher man hat again today. That old man is awesome. He's always up on his board and smiling too. I was paddling in when he caught a wave. He saw me watching and tipped his hat towards me. I gave him the thumbs up. Cool guy, hopefully I can be just as nice and cool.

July 5, 2008 - Bolsa Chica

Kevin, Eric, and Dex. After my first trip to Bolsa, I made a second trip with the boys to Bolsa Chica at 2:30PM. I did manage to fit in quality time with the lovely: Sunday mass and shopping.

High tide. Had a lot of good laughs with the boys. I picked up a new FCS leash with a key holder. This would make our total board count to 4.

Dex bought a sun block spray and wanted me to spray him. Felt kinda weird doing it. But it was hilarious to over spray his bald head. Dex did pretty good with his short board, he doesn't realize it but he is actually going further out into the water.

Dex ran into an A Hole Surfer. This guy was either A. On his rag or B. On drugs. He was good, but he was not nice about it, he told Dex to get out of his way. WOW. This was our first run in with an A Hole in the water. A Hole Surfer ruined most of the day for Dex. I hope that guy wakes up and realizes what a jerk he is.

Eric went with a possible leg fracture, he went mountain biking the day before and wrecked his bike. I saw him nose dive (hilarious).

Kevboy was on point, as usual, caught 1 wave all the way in.

I'm in love with the Blaster. I borrowed it from Kevin, while Eric was using my board. I was able to catch and stand on a couples waves. At the end of the day, I got really confident and took the Blaster out 1 last time. I was able to catch some white water and stand up a bit.