Wakeboarding

This is the year of grand plans, to be good at something. To be Master of something instead of a Jack at all trades. But I find myself doing many many things, instead of just sticking to one. Although, I must say, I am starting to get a bit better at the new interests I am investing in.

Wakeboarding is one of these. I went wakeboarding today. The last time I was in top form. I managed to cross both wakes smoothly finally, and I did one jump.

We started at 8am. 8am means u have to get up really early on a saturday morning, which sucks. But, the water is nice and calm and less polluted. And the sun is not out in its full glory yet.

This time round, I was not at my best. Usually, crossing the right wake should come very naturally. But today, I'm not sure if it's the choppy water (since we were in the open sea), or whether I was obsessing about the technicalities a bit too much and missed the big picture, or whether I was just having a generic "off" day, but I actually tipped forward while crossing the right wake! That's my problem - not leaning backwards enough.

My first run was a disaster. It completely pissed me off.

The second run was so much better. I managed to do a jump again! But I landed very very badly as I was crossing back from the left into the wake. I tipped forward, again, and went SPLAT right into the water face forward. And the board got ripped from my feet. OUCH. It was like having a mini concussion.

Anyway there are things to learn from this lesson:

1. LEAN BACK
2. Learning in choppy water sucks but it's good for u in the long run.
3. Sometimes, the best way of moving from left to right is to move the front toe up and down. But, at all times, the weight should be on the back leg.
4. No matter how much sunblock I use, I will still look like a boiled lobster after 2 hours.