My First Wave Skimboarding can be an extremely competitive activity, and the professionals perform amazing tricks. But everyone starts in relatively the same way, by trial and error. And so it was with me. One bright summer day when I was around nine years old I was on the beach with my family. I had just gotten my first skimboard, which was a woody or wooden board with black Let’sParty traction pads, the day before and I was anxious to use it. Coincidentally, there was a one day camp where I could learn to skimboard taking place a short ways down the beach from where my family was sitting. I eagerly begged my parents to sign me up for this little camp, and they agreed to sign me up as long as I did not give up or lose interest in a week.
The camp started almost immediately after I was signed up. The camp consisted of six boys aged seven to twelve. The two instructors lead
Creswell 2 us to an empty spot near the water. Once there they proceeded to show us how to drop our boards and jump on. They told us to lay our boards flat on the dry sand, then run up and jump on the way they showed us. We did this without protest for about ten minutes before we were bored out of our …show more content…
The instructor just smiled and told us not to worry and that we would all get our chance to attempt to skim in just a moment. I should mention that the waves were about a foot and a half in height and were breaking fairly clean on the shore. The instructors had us all line up facing the waves and they began to call one person at a time to attempt to skim. Naturally, the older boys were called first. There were three boys in front of me. The first boy, who was almost thirteen, got prepared to run and drop his board into the water. A wave came and he failed to get on the board. The two others in front of me proceeded the same way as the first boy and they failed as well. Then it was my
The camp started almost immediately after I was signed up. The camp consisted of six boys aged seven to twelve. The two instructors lead
Creswell 2 us to an empty spot near the water. Once there they proceeded to show us how to drop our boards and jump on. They told us to lay our boards flat on the dry sand, then run up and jump on the way they showed us. We did this without protest for about ten minutes before we were bored out of our …show more content…
The instructor just smiled and told us not to worry and that we would all get our chance to attempt to skim in just a moment. I should mention that the waves were about a foot and a half in height and were breaking fairly clean on the shore. The instructors had us all line up facing the waves and they began to call one person at a time to attempt to skim. Naturally, the older boys were called first. There were three boys in front of me. The first boy, who was almost thirteen, got prepared to run and drop his board into the water. A wave came and he failed to get on the board. The two others in front of me proceeded the same way as the first boy and they failed as well. Then it was my