"I need a ride to shore"

Just with in this week, a young lad drown on the north end of VB. When we were rearing our kids we spent a great deal of time on the beach and in the water (because that's where I want to be, ALL RIGHT?!). Our kids never entered the water without something strapped to them.

 

Much like how European families often let the children have wine at dinner with less incidence of abuse later in life, this is probably an excellent parenting technique to prevent the affinity of strapping things to oneself later in adulthood. There's several applications to interpret that for and most of them aren't the top choice for what your kids do when they grow up.

 

tropic, where was this again? Your homeland of PR? Thank you for the excellent piece of data for my R&D efforts. This is clearly NOT the target market for my surf school, where leashes don't exist and the bombing 8-10 is the baseline venue.

At least it wasn't his aging mother or petite sister coming to save the day. His questionable dignity would have plummeted much further.

 

Nice save bro. It's tough having to make a Sofie's Choice out the water. It's always good until is isn't all of a sudden. I've been in similar situations, and the main thing, if it is one kook in trouble, or a mom trying to hang on to all three of her kids, is to mentally connect to them, let them know you will absolutely get them to safety, but you need their total cooperation ( especially Mom's ). A higher power can be available if you keep things calm.

 

This. Seen called the affliction of our cultural masses.

 

Speaking to the broken leash...

My leash broke Wed. early into my sesh, luckily it had the little weight thing on it, so I pulled the Velcro, popped the broken section thru, with the weight on one side and surfed the rest of the day, held beautifully.

As for the vaginitis, if he needs help paddling in now, I hope he ain't out there when we get some real waves!

 

The past couple weekends I saw quite a few "water rescues". Not necessarily all emergencies, but a cpl instances of kids swimming directly against a rip and freaking out. Another one where like literally 5 or 6 kids, I say kids but looked like young teenagers, clinging to a walmart boogie with this confused look on their faces. Not sure my point to all this, had a special friday morning breakfast, but it just amazes me b/c it's not like the rips were that bad, and in terms of surf, not bigger than 4 ft. It is a rippy spot, they pop up quick, I guess i'm also surprised people dont get hurt more often. Obviously, in those circumstances, I had my eye on these folks and would be willing to assist if necessary.

 

I'm thinking he was scared of the reef and urchins. People talk it up so much down there and caution can be a good thing with a beginner(kid) and the reef.

 

Emass, your PM mail box is full

 

Thanks braddah. Just opened it up a bit and deleted some messages. Hadn't been on the comp til now.

Between our back and forth and same with some others, the hate PMs I get, the truces and peace offerings, and yankee's endless wooing of me in iambic pentameter (excessive, creepy, yet amazing composition!), it fills up quickly!

Send over the rest of what you had for me brah.

 

All done, thanks man!

 

More capable of handling the problem too in most cases...the lifeguards are funny, some are cool and into the water and you'll see them out bosy surfing on breaks and stuff, and then the others just wanna look cool for the chicks.