For the Love of Surfing...

Today was a great day! The beach that my friend Saara and I go to to surf most often, Muizenburg, held an international surf event today. We managed to sign up for a free surf lesson from the Roxy Surf School, which was awesome! Our instructor was very nice and encouraging. She thought we were ready to start turning and controlling the speed of our boards so she told us how to ride the wave sideways ect... It was really nice for someone to notice our practice and tell us that we should go up a level in our surfing. The main event was the best thing though. It was Earthwave 2009. That is where countries try to beat the Guiness record for most people surfing a single wave. The record holder last year was Brazil with 100...the verdict is still out but at last count it appeared our location had one wave with at least 103.. It was quite an experience. There were probably over 500 surfers registered for the event and everyone was paddling out and lining up at the same distance. The pictures the photographers were taking are probably ridiculous. It was inevitable that people would run into and/or over each other, but everyone was game, and that was cool. I managed to ride one out with a count for 91 people on the same wave. The feeling was amazing. I was basically sharing a board with the guy beside me, since everyone was so close and trying to stay up. Though I am not South African, I had a lot of pride for the country today, and am crossing my fingers that SA regained the title and that I was apart of history today.