{"id":9,"date":"2008-05-16T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-11-18T01:36:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T08:36:42","slug":"first-time-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2008\/05\/first-time-solo\/","title":{"rendered":"First Time Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/tracey_kate\/pic\/00003zx5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/tracey_kate\/pic\/00003zx5\/s320x240\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Conditions:<\/strong> Wow, good waves for good surfers, too big for me.*<br \/>\n<strong>Gear: <\/strong>Soft Top rental board from <a class=\"snap_shots\" href=\"http:\/\/norcalsurfshop.stores.yahoo.net\/\">NorCal Surf Shop<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"snap_com_shot_link_icon\" class=\"snap_preview_icon\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt ! important; padding: 1px 0pt 0pt; max-height: 2000px; max-width: 2000px; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot;,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; float: none; position: static; left: auto; top: auto; line-height: normal; background-image: url(http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.49\/theme\/silver\/palette.gif); background-color: transparent; visibility: visible; width: 14px; height: 12px; background-position: -1128px 0pt; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.49\/t.gif?w=525\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow, crazy day to try my first Solo surf. The weather was beautiful. Waves, however, were a little scary. Conditions were definitely above my skill set. I panicked on the first wave I caught and immediately pearled. Somehow I\u00c2\u00a0managed to get stuck under my board and spent some agonizing seconds wondering why on earth I&#8217;d insisted I could surf by myself after only 3 days in the waves.<\/p>\n<p>I took my board, headed back to the beach and laid in the sun till some friends came. Kneeled on a wave or two after that, but mostly hung out in the whitewater boogie-board style.<\/p>\n<p><em>*I&#8217;m gonna guess this was 4-7 ft, mostly on the higher end. Sets were far enough apart that I could still paddle out in the lulls, but once I caught a wave I really didn&#8217;t know what to do with it other than fall. Oh well, I guess it pays to practice falling too&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conditions: Wow, good waves for good surfers, too big for me.* Gear: Soft Top rental board from NorCal Surf Shop Wow, crazy day to try my first Solo surf. The weather was beautiful. Waves, however, were a little scary. Conditions were definitely above my skill set. I panicked on the first wave I caught and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2008\/05\/first-time-solo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Time Solo&#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":[5,6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YKrJ-9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}