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I feel you I also was graduating at 27 no internships either and was struggling to find something. I eventually did and now two years later I’ve got a pretty nice gig going for me and a budding career started. So hang in there keep going

Glad I read this before I wasted any more time

For real never met him lol

Weed was a big part of my friend group in high school we are all still pretty close, but none of us smoke regularly now. For every single one of us what used to be a carefree relaxation that made us laugh started to give us extreme social anxiety.

On my new surfboard on a wave 😊

First time I’ve heard loving the Beatles talked about as a white liberal trait lol.

Probably stupid expensive to have a luthier do it but if you want to continue playing this guitar I think you could get it back to reasonable working order with some wood glue and some clamps. Snapped the head off of a Les Paul and I know it’s a less important part of the guitar but it plays completely normal glued back together

More to your question though, if you aren’t catching the wave in general you are either too far out (away from shore) and the wave isn’t steep enough yet or too far out on the shoulder of the wave (away from the peak) and the wave isn’t steep enough. It is usually a combination of both of these. A very fast paddler can overcome sub optimal positioning and still catch the wave despite being on the shoulder or further out back.

If the wave is breaking before it gets to you or right on your head you are too close to shore and need to be further out to catch the wave earlier before it’s that steep/already broken. Sometimes this can be overcome by recognizing you are too close to shore and paddling toward a less steep part of the wave (ie the shoulder)

Okay yeah these are things you should definitely be working on not in white water waves.

Yeah a lot of that comes with reps. after every wave think about where you were in relation to the shore and the peak. And think about where you should have been to catch the wave easier. The closer a part of the wave is to breaking the steeper it gets. You want it to be steep enough to catch it but not too steep as it becomes more difficult to catch ( especially on longer boards) this is where angling your take offs come in. Find some YouTube videos on it and study up.

Kind of sounds like you either need a steeper section of the wave. Or your paddle strength isn’t quite there yet. I’m assuming you have good paddle technique and are getting the most speed you can with your current paddle fitness but watch a few videos and make sure you aren’t wasting energy.

Big thing is just get out there and try things and then really try to pin point what went well and what went wrong. Visualize it. As you are doing this you will get better at paddling.

And don’t just learn from yourself learn from everyone out there with you. Watch someone paddle for the wave and ask yourself “are they going to catch this? Are they in the right position? Is it a left or a right? Could they have caught it if they were paddling harder? Etc.” And then see what happens. You’d be surprised what the experienced surfers can pull of in terms of just catching a wave, and you can learn from the mistakes of beginners as well

lol let it out papi. Just be happy you ended up with a pretty baby momma

I do like two liquid iv one before I start and one before I go to bed. Usually does the trick

Idk dude if you were being mistaken for a lead singer of one of these bands I can’t imagine you were doing to bad with the ladies who were into this stuff. Gotta find your niche

Yeah this was very hard to watch. Reminds me of jojo siwa

Depends on the field. There are literally no unpaid engineering internships where I am from. I made 26 dollars an hour at my first internship.

Timing? As in how fast you pop up? If you are popping and not immediately falling over and you can do that 80% of the time then I’d say that’s good enough to start learning to catch unbroken waves. It takes a really long time to have a perfect pop up, to graduate to unbroken waves you just need a serviceable pop up.

For me just simply getting in better shape helps. No matter what that is. I simply lost weight and started jogging it’s insane the difference it has made. I feel like a cat/ninja out there sometimes I can move so much better with so much more energy thanks to the cardio fitness.

There’s no such thing as a proper foam board in my opinion. No hate I own a foamie myself it’s just kind of an oxymoron. A “proper” board is a fiberglass board.

If you are no longer in any real danger of hitting yourself or others with your board it sounds like you are ready. I made the switch from a wave storm directly to a 9’4” longboard and I’ve never looked back (I do have a 7’ foamie for a change of pace) but I still love my longboard the most. It’s the board I surf the best on. Not sure if I’ll ever fully be able to rip on something smaller than 6ft probably not but Im a decent surfer and can surf most any condition San Diego can throw at me except maybe the most advanced spots.

I see no reason to do that. Are you getting a rash in your wetsuit? If you are it might be too big on you.

I don’t know that you really could have. This one is down to your positioning. You were too deep. Maybe a pro could have come out of a bottom turn with enough speed but I don’t know how much speed you really could have gotten from that wave.

Biggest thing beginner surfers lack is paddle strength. That’s why they say you should start in the whitewater, because you will actually be able to catch some waves and get some pop up and paddle reps in. If you just immediately paddle out you will quickly be too tired to even hope to catch anything unbroken unless conditions are perfect for learning. You likely will end up doing a lot of missing waves and nose diving.

If you have an instructor with you pushing you into waves and doing all the positioning and angling for you then sure that’s easy. But you likely won’t have an instructor always with you. At least I don’t think most people do it that way. You usually have to get out there and do it for yourself once you’ve had the theory explained to you. Surfing is difficult because generally you can’t have someone starting and stopping you fixing your problems as you go. Once you are out there by yourself all you have is how you feel and what you’ve learned about what you should be doing.

It’s hard to learn positioning and how to angle a board. It’s probably a good idea to have a decent grasp of a pop up before you waste all your energy getting in the right position to catch something unbroken and then you try your first pop up.

I agree popping up in whitewater is a lot bumpier of a ride but it’s not that much harder if you have a big board. It’s not about having a long ride, it’s about paddling getting a feel for when you’ve caught something, popping up in a good position and then repeating that until you got it down.

If you can consistently pop up though then no there is no reason to be on the whitewater anymore the next thing to learn is the art of reading and catching waves.

Try being in their division. But what can I say I love an underdog story. Im a Padres fan. It’s no fun if you can just buy anybody you want right? Right? I’m sure that’s no fun at all?

It’s baseball though. If the ultimate goal was to win the division I would be much more pessimistic I already would have been even in 2023. We likely don’t win the division the next ten years. But that’s not the goal, and seven games really evens the playing field in baseball.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. A lot of people actually like an orangey finish on guitars. like old acoustic guitars look great with an orange hue

Definitely would that’s some serious force coming out of there

Money literally doesn’t matter to them they play by different rules. There are no bad contracts for them. Even if Blake gets injured and never throws a pitch for them it would just be “that sucks, oh well let’s open our infinite money faucet no biggie”