Port-o-blog--Tamarindo: April 25

(sorry no surfing pics-- just more of Tamarindo)

Juicy's 'How to Surf'.

1. Lie on board-- toes to the nose

2. Hands in push up position

3. Wait for wave.....

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Then paddle with your hands 5x-- cupped hands work the best

4. Jump up by pushing up with your arms. Dont grab the side of the board cuz you'll fall over. It sounds like a good idea, but you dont wanna do it.

5. Right foot first. Then left-- shoulders parallel to the board

6. Arms in an L shape

7. 70% of your weight on your front leg.

8. Get low, man


Do this all in quick succession to surf. Miss one and you're eating wave.




I managed to lose both contacts in one fall...who needs sight, right?
Then I was hit in the head by someone elses' board...who needs consciousness, right?

Despite all this, I was able to get up quite a few times and I think i could do it again now problem. Just not today. Or tomorrow. Or at anytime in the near future cuz my whole body aches like i was hit by a car.


Tomorrow we leave Tamarindo-- the Pacific surf paradise for the cloud forests of Monteverde. Hahah. That sounds like a Hardy Boys novel.



I won 8000 colones at the Casino by lettin it ride on red on the roulette table. Too bad its only 15 USD.