How to Deal With Being Away From Surfing

Scott Fellows

How to deal with being away from surf:

• Don’t be away from surf.  I’ve heard the withdrawals are comparable to high-grade Vietnamese heroin.

• Get a skateboard. Skateboarding became popular in southern California in the late 60s, on days when the surf went flat. The activity was known as “street surfing”, and the only reason kids tore up the sidewalk was to practice their bottom turns for their next surf session.

• Find a woman (or man).  That one speaks for itself.

• If you’re at the fine age of 21 (or 18 in EVERY other country besides the US), crack open a cold one and reminisce of your very first cutback on a wave.

• If possible, take up snowboarding. It’s a whole different kind of wave! The temperatures are far from balmy, and the sunburn really only affects you on your nose. Just don’t catch and edge; even though snow seems calming and gentle in a snow globe, that stuff hurts a when you fall!

• DO NOT- Look at surf magazines, watch surf videos, or check the Huntington pier wave cam, that’s not doing anything but making you reconsider why you chose a desk job over beach bumming the rest of your life away off the college graduation money your parents and extended family gave you.

• Most importantly- Get back to the beach as soon as possible, who knows what perfect A-frames are waiting for you!

SF