*bloop*

No prizes to guess what I did on Saturday!
Started off the ride with a little warm up to feel up the board and the water. The water was awesome (well relatively considering that we were riding in a large long-kang!) But still. The tide was high and the water was heading inland and not the other way. Went out toe-side to practise what I learnt the last time. Cutting out and coming back in… the trick for me was to get it done smoothly. By the end of the morning, I realised that I was going out far to fast, way to far and coming back in abruptly. Too many variables for me to think about out, so when I cut out the distance from the wake, and heeded Ed’s advice on cutting out, easing out and coming back all in gradual steps I managed to get the hang of it more. I still need to work on standing upright when I hit the wake to perfect my jump, right now I’m still hitting the wake with bent knees and a skooch-ed down… way to far down. I suppose this was coz I was trying to remember to keep my knees supple and bent while riding out. The last time I went out, the problem with R was that he was standing upright most of the time and tended to lean back, this time he remembered to keep it supple a little more.

By the time I hit the second set, I was starting to feel a little ache in my lower back and I had to tell myself that I had to fight the pain and get the silly jump right. I did take a break midway and went back heel-side to surf the wake a little. I kept having to remind myself that I had to feel the ride instead of making things too technical. All in all it was a good ride.

R and J were riders before but hadn’t done so as much recently. Anyways J was pretty good… very easy rider kinda style. S was the virgin rider and was a little apprehensive about getting up on the board, but by the end of the day he was up and riding a little! It was an excellent day! I had a blast.

Started out riding easy… getting a feel of things, but I was soon raring to head out toeside to get a feel of edging out and coming in.

Heading on out and heading back in… the problem was that I kept chickening out intially! bleh!

My posture was really bad. Had to keep being reminded!

Practising my jumps was tough, I have to admit. I was pretty quick in picking up the fundamentals of riding, like getting up on the board and edging out and stuff but once you take that and combine it with other stuff like jumping and jumping right, it gets complicated and very tiring. Still, no pain no gain… literally! After a couple of tumbles in the form of face-plants, 1 cartwheels and several handle slips (that’s when I lose hold of the handle and gradually slip into the water in slow-mo), my posture improved somewhat but I wasn’t bending my knees enough. Sigh. I like Pain.

This is one of them times I decided to take a wee break to just chill a little to feel the ride. I was crashing too much and I was being too technical, thinking about stuff. So i declared a time out for myself.

And then it was back to practising the jumps, over and over and over and… over again! I love it!

Dec. 5th, 2005 | 02:03 am
mood: cheerful
music: Guns N’ Roses - You’re Crazy