The more we watched people learning to surf yesterday, the more we wanted to try it and today was the day! The water was a little cooler than the day before and the waves were only about 1.9m but we were ready! Most of the groups we had seen the day before were pretty large but we happened to notice that some people were getting private or semi-private lessons. Since Bali had been relatively cheap thus far, we figured that we would look in to that since none of us had ever tried surfing before. We approached one of the local surfer guys hanging out by his boards and umbrella and for $35 each, he and his buddy gave us lessons and a board each to use for the entire day. The guys were great- they strapped on the board line to our legs and took us through a dry run down on the beach. They told us where to put our feet and how to position our bodies. After about 20 mins of practice we headed out in to the water to try and catch a real wave.
It was definitely a learning curve with us wiping out and getting pumelled by the waves at the start but we all figured it out and managed to get the hang of it pretty quickly. Before you knew it, we were riding waves in to the beach on a consistent basis. Our instructors were impressed- apparently it tends to take people 2 or 3 days to get the hang of it, we got it in a couple of hours! :) Surfing is hard work though. The most difficult part has to be pushing your board back out in to the water through the waves because you are constantly getting pushed back in towards the beach by the water- there is no doubt in my mind that we will have sore muscles and a few bruises tomorrow. Especially Michelle because not only did she get smucked in the arm by Susanne's board but some other girl wiped out right beside her and literally speared her in the stomach! It's all good though, as they say, no pain, no gain! Unfortunately there aren't any pictures because it would have been too hard to hang on to the camera out in the water- I guess you'll just have to take my word for it all.
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