{"id":18,"date":"2008-09-20T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=18"},"modified":"2008-11-18T02:12:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T09:12:23","slug":"getting-a-class-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2008\/09\/getting-a-class-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a Class Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Riding a wave all the way in by tracey_t, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tracey_t\/2877775752\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3291\/2877775752_c03302c586_o.jpg?resize=525%2C406\" alt=\"Riding a wave all the way in\" width=\"525\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More from the day on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tracey_t\/sets\/72157604992502657\/\">Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Conditions:<\/strong> 3-4 ft. + &#8211; waist to shoulder high and fair-good conditions. Clean, peaky lines with workable shoulders and fair-good shape.<br \/>\n<strong>Gear:<\/strong> 9 ft foam board<\/p>\n<p>AWESOME\u00c2\u00a0day.<\/p>\n<p>I got together a group of friends who were looking to learn and headed to the beach for another <a href=\"http:\/\/adventureout.com\">Adventure Out<\/a> class. My friends all got the basic class while I talked to one of the instructors about where I wanted to improve. Basically I wanted to work on my timing, on reading a wave, and generally working on my confidence.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the day working with Melissa on catching waves, trying to learn when I\u00c2\u00a0should paddle slow (if it&#8217;s a steep wave)\u00c2\u00a0and when I should paddle faster to catch the wave. Mike helped me learn to balance my upper body and to use my front shoulder to steer. I learned to set up top turns and how to start to think about bottom turns. I\u00c2\u00a0didn&#8217;t get a whole lot of turning in, but I got up lots of times and had a blast.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone else was getting the hang of things pretty quickly too, hopefully I&#8217;ll have a few more friends in the water!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from the day on my Flickr Conditions: 3-4 ft. + &#8211; waist to shoulder high and fair-good conditions. Clean, peaky lines with workable shoulders and fair-good shape. Gear: 9 ft foam board AWESOME\u00c2\u00a0day. I got together a group of friends who were looking to learn and headed to the beach for another Adventure Out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2008\/09\/getting-a-class-together\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting a Class Together&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,11,6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YKrJ-i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}