Thirty before Thirty: Buy a long board and ride a wave standing up

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 12:12 am. 1 comment

I wish I could say I have some serious catching up to do with my “Thirty Before Thirty” list; unfortunately I only have 2 more things I can check off the list (as of this moment) that I haven’t written about.  Hopefully I can knock one more item off the list by my birthday – THIS SATURDAY – but I’m not sure I’ll have the time to finish it up.  So I suppose my list was a huge bust.  But I’m really not that disappointed about it. I’ll write about why later.

I had quite a few “perfect for summer” tasks on the list but I really only completed one of them: Buy a long board and ride a wave standing up.  This past June Todd and I went down to Costa Rica for a week.  Although the surf was awful (for a place that is supposed to have consistently good surf anyway) we still had an amazing time and I learned a lot.  The trip renewed my interest in surfing the Pacific so when we got back to Oregon I was determined to finally get my own board.  Although it would’ve been great to be riding my own board all summer, we didn’t get around to it until October, when I bought…

… “Spiderman”!  He’s only a 7′8″ so for most people he wouldn’t be considered a longboard, but for me he is.

We took Spiderman out to Short Sands on that sunny day in October:

I still only ride in the white water, so it’s nothing fancy, but I did ride some waves standing up! Todd was helping me learn how to turn a little bit.

That was the last time I surfed in 2010; but we’ve both been itching to surf more. It’s been too cold for me this January (Todd went out once in 30-degree weather. Yikes.) but this weekend is looking pretty good!

Of course we’re always dreaming of Costa Rica…