Rafael, What fun having your surfing on video! I watched it and would like to make a quick comment on your technique if you don't mind. In both of your capsizes in the clip you can clearly see that as you reached the waves you stopped paddling. In the first, smaller wave, you even got pushed backwards while you sat there and did nothing. Had you approached each wave by aggressively trying to paddle through them then I'm betting you would have made it on both. Even if you start to back surf you want to continue to claw at the water and try to pull yourself through it. The worst thing you can do is nothing. Give it a try and see if this helps. Scott So.Cal. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Oct 27 2006 - 05:04:56 PDT
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