I am getting ready to try coldwater surf!!! Bought a wetsuit, secondhand, ION jewel series 5/4. Tried it on and tried some pop-ups, and that thing is warm!! at least inside.
Wearing a thick wetsuit, sure aint going to make my "moves" more smooth, but I know I´ll have a blast getting tossed around in the waves: D

This video is great. Even though I have been long gone from this blog and surfing, I try to think about what muscles I need to work out and which moves I use in Surfing, while doing my other exercise. In my aikido class we often end up face down on the floor, and that´s an excelent opportunity to practise the pop-up while getting up:)

My friend Johanna sent me this picture after I had talked exhilarated about my first time surfing experience.



and under you see me (yes it´s me in the pink rash guard) waiting, looking, learning, and having a lot of exhilarating fun out in the ocean. Grupuk, Lombok is the place

trying trying trying
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doing doing doing:

Your stance and the pop-up, shown by prosurfers
I studied some clips on youtube and found these lessons useful and very specific. In this clip you find the intro on how to figure out if youre stance are a regular or a goofy,how to do the pop-up and where to place those feet of yours on the board: