Surf Lesson

19 April 2006, 09:21:07 (1607 clicks)

Surfing lesson at Harris Resort, right on Kuta Beach, with Odysseys Surf School

We started our surfing lesson at Harris Resort, right on Kuta Beach, with Odysseys Surf School. The weather was sunny and the waves were shimmering blue. Some people think that surfing is easy well... its not! It is actually pretty hard, while some people learn it easily, most people think it is going to be pretty challenging. I think surfing is one of the sports that proves that practice makes perfect.

Our instructor explained to us the three steps to surf. The first one is you lift your chest with your arms and hands, second is you put your right foot (if your left handed you put your left foot first,) in the middle of the surfboard then you just stand up, make sure your foot is facing across and the third step was to bend your knees and to spread your arms across your body to give you extra balance. The middle of the board is where you put your feet. Remember if your feet move to close to the nose (front part of the board) you might flip over!

After practicing paddling in the resort pool, it was time to go into the waves. Our instructer gave us more tips on the beach and then we were surfing! When I was surfing it was really fun because the waves were big and the water was lovely. We went for a very long time, but it started to pour with rain and even though it was raining cats and dogs we still continued. After a while the rain was so hard that every time we would stand up the rain shot in our eyes like bullets, so that made it so much harder. I think that surfing is a very good sport, not only does it help your balance it even improves your eye coordination. The surfing experience was great fun and we hope to do it again.