{"id":58,"date":"2008-10-12T18:50:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T01:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=58"},"modified":"2010-11-16T22:31:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T05:31:57","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2008\/10\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Conditions:<\/strong> 3-4 ft. &#8211; waist to chest high and fair &#8211; conditions. Sloppy, scattered peaks in the waist-head high range with a few bigger sets on occasion. Cleaned up as the day went on.<br \/>\n<strong>Gear:<\/strong> 9&#8242; 4&#8243; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikisurf.co.uk\/sunsetsurfboards.asp?subcategory=Sunset%20Surfboards\">Sunset<\/a> Soft top from  <a class=\"snap_shots\" href=\"http:\/\/norcalsurfshop.stores.yahoo.net\/\">NorCal Surf Shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another beautiful day out in Pacifica. After flying cross country I was beat and not at my best, but with the cold water and stiff onshore flow I got a second wind in no time.<\/p>\n<p>Today I tried my hand at teaching. I showed my friends how to pop up, how to fall, how to paddle and we jumped right in to give it a shot. My timing isn&#8217;t good enough for me to be able to teach other people when to paddle and what waves to pick, but everyone seemed to be getting a handle on the basics and having fun out there.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty awesome to have good friends out in the lineup!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conditions: 3-4 ft. &#8211; waist to chest high and fair &#8211; conditions. Sloppy, scattered peaks in the waist-head high range with a few bigger sets on occasion. Cleaned up as the day went on. Gear: 9&#8242; 4&#8243; Sunset Soft top from NorCal Surf Shop Another beautiful day out in Pacifica. After flying cross country I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2008\/10\/teaching\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teaching&#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":[5,58,6,18],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6YKrJ-teaching","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}