Well last night definitely lived up to expectations as a party night! About 5 of the academey passed their instructors licence yesterday too so there was plenty to celebrate. Daveo's main aim appeared to be - get me battered. Basically involving poor excuses for me to down my drink. Then we played flip cup, which was a really good laugh as about 15 of us played, until the boss came over to make us all shut up. In the camp site there was also 2 guys living / tr...

Got up at 8am and had breakfast etc this morning but then got impatient and didn't wait till 9:30 for our lesson - me, Paul, Joja and Val went to check Marawarra. It didn't seem all too great despite being quite big. Eventually came back to Arrawarra after watching for awhile and coincidently joined into our lesson, and what a surf. First 45 minutes were ok but nothing special, then it just started absolutely cranking. Was about 5ft and just barreling top to bott...

Got up at 8am and had breakfast etc this morning but then got impatient and didn't wait till 9:30 for our lesson - me, Paul, Joja and Val went to check Marawarra. It didn't seem all too great despite being quite big. Eventually came back to Arrawarra after watching for awhile and coincidently joined into our lesson, and what a surf. First 45 minutes were ok but nothing special, then it just started absolutely cranking. Was about 5ft and just barreling top to bott...

My group's lesson was at 7am this morning, so had to get up super early again. Turns out we did an hour of watching back videos of us surfing the other day - all extremely useful and interesting stuff, but it's just so difficult to think about it when in the water and actually try to pull it off.. I'm still having the issues with where my arms are and how to compress my body form bottom turn to top turn. We then went to Mulawarra and there were great waves. Ave...

I've had a really good day today. Our lesson was at 9:30 so I got a lay in this morning, which is always a good start to the day here! There was barely any swell around what so ever so we had to go to Mulawarra. Got to the beach and it looked tiny so wasn't expecting much, especially when I saw Joya and Paul had ditched their short boards for academy long boards. Having paddled out though there were some really fun 1/1.5ft sets coming through breaking really wel...