workout

 

Oh boy...  What a NIGHT!  Well, first things first... Lizzy has acquired ANOTHER surf student named Lindsey! Lindsey and I went over to Lizzie's house to learn how to long board some more in order to gain more balancing skills.  Lindsey started off very wobbly, but by the end of the night she was riding like Tony Hawk!  She was balancing and kicking to go even faster on the long board.  I was able to get the balancing skill down rather fast.  All you really have to do if find your center and bounce on the board a little bit to get comfortable.  After I worked on balancing on the board, Lizzie had me practice turning left and right.  She said if I learned how to do this on the long board NOW, then it would make it easier for me to learn how to turn on my surf board LATER.  I was able to pick up on that pretty fast too, so now I can say I learned how to longboard!

After a good session of long boarding, Lizzie, Lindsey, and I went inside Lizzie's house and met Lizzie's cat named Murphy.  After being introduced to Murphy, Lizzie decided to teach me and Lindsey some exercises that would help us with paddling (The video above).  We had a good workout session and really got the hang of things!  Before Lizzie took me back to campus, she told me I was to practice the exercises I had just learned and watch a surfing video as homework.  I'm looking forward to getting to the beach and trying my luck on the surf board again!

CATIE