I have now gone surfing twice with our group in the Atlantic Ocean with the company Surf Mayo. They set us up with wet suits, shoes, and surf boards. They gave a crash course on how to surf too.
They first told us to go out and just lay on the board and try to catch a wave and lean back once you had caught the wave. The speed of the waves was very deceiving, they are a lot faster than you expect. After we did that for a while they called us back into shore and gave us instructions on how to stand up. They basically told us once we caught the wave to jump up into the middle of the board. It sounded a lot easier than it was.
After about an hour of trying to stand up and being unsuccessful, I made a personal goal to just stand up and ride just one wave. The next wave that I attempted to stand up on, I rode until the wave had passed. I was the first to stand up out of the group.
Then others started to get a hang of it, and we started to ride the same waves in a line. Sure we only riding in a straight line on somewhat small waves but it was a lot of fun.
It was also extremely hard work. We never went in deep enough to where couldn't touch the bottom of the ocean, but the waves were big and would knock you back quite a ways. It felt like you would walk five feet and then get pushed back 10 feet. It was exhausting but well worth it.
After our time was up we all shared stories of waves kicking our butts and how much salt water we had swallowed. Getting the wet suit off was a lot harder to get off than to get on, which is saying quite a lot. We then jumped into our taxi and made our way home. We all showered and we are all in bed by about 8 PM. The next day we all woke up battered and bruised but we all wanted to do it again.
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