Went to bowl again this morning to work on this. Was definitely feeling like I was getting higher on the transition by straightening up more.

Days 10-12: Surfed day 10, quick session after work before picking the kids up from school.

Day 11: unfortunately missed this day. The dog took my wife's legs right out from under her and she landed right on her tailbone, which landed us in urgent care getting x-rays and pain meds, nothing broken thankfully. Spent the rest of the day helping my wife, who could barely walk, and building my new home gym.

Day 12: Surfed 2.5 hrs on tiny little waves riding the 7'0 soft top again. Really has me wanting an honest midlength... looking at the Firewire revo Max and Sunday models. Really been enjoying twin fins lately.

Also got a full workout in on the new equipment. I'm sure I'll be sore tomorrow.

Little bit of a funny add on to my surf training. I mentioned before I was going to have a local surfer coach me up. He has never seen me surf, as our 1st lessons isn't till next week. He said he was going to send me a video of the pop-up and how it should be done the correct way for me to practice before our 1st time out.

He just sent me the link to Clayton's pop up series 1: check your head youtube video.

I thought that was hilarious

Day 9: more bowl before work. FINALLY got back to getting my cutback turns in. Can't believe it took me this many days to do them again after not really skating most of summer because of the heat and crowds. It's coming back to me now though.

Did have a minor issue in that the kingpin nut on my front C5 truck comes loose after every session. Even with having it cranked down to the locker thread. Gonna call carver today and see if I can order new kingpin and nut to prevent that from happening.

Bringing my softtop to work tomorrow to get some in before and after work.

Yeeewwww

Me posting/ commenting on my own post is really more for me than you guys/gals to be honest. I said I was gonna do something and coming here to post keeps me honest.

Another day another update.

7 days in a row so far...

Went to the bowl this morning before work to get my leg burn in.

Also talked to a local sponsored surfer that will be giving me in person lessons with the 1st one being 9/13. Decided to go this route for a few reasons: 1. I had credit for lessons my girls didn't use or want to use so I decided I'd use it. 2. The main reason is simply because I can't video myself to tell what I'm doing wrong. The surfline cams at my local spot are too far away to show me as anything but a spec in the ocean, I can't take a camera or tripod cause I'd would be stolen before my feet even got wet. So I'll have this Duder out there with me to give me some ideas of what I'm doing wrong and how to go about fixing it.

I'm going to get good at this if it is the last thing I do.

Maximum effort!

Officially September 1st and currently on day 6 of my month of surf training.

Day 1-3: Bowl skating

Day 4-6: Surfed at least an hour each day. Know it doesn't sound like a lot but I am out there alone so no one to compete for waves with. Not many actually rideable waves to speak of to be completely honest. But any time in the water is only going to led to improving. Typically only surf 1 or 2 days aMonty, so 3 days in a row and my 46 year old body is feeling it. Made sure to paddle a lot even on days I didn't need to just to get the muscles working. Rode the foam 7' sugar glider days 1 and 2, just working on pop ups and paying attention to my weight and how it moves over the board.

Today was dumping beach break, all close outs very drifty. Got a few though.

Ordered some new home gym equipment that the wife wanted so be adding in more weight training once it's delivery.

Good start to the month.. hoping to see some improvements.

Bro that looks good, all you need to do is open up a little more and pass that coffee cup up towards the lip. You do good almost passing it but you never actually get it around more to hand it off to the lip.

Another day another session. Little wild and drift out there this am. Normally would not have gone in, but I did today.

Definitely got my paddling workout part in. Few times I didn't even have the strength to pop up my shoulders were burning trying to not drift down 2 miles.

Got a few though... any day surfing is better than a day without.