Day 16 - Bumpy and Cold

Short post today... My back and knee are really sore, I think I need to get back on the rehab circuit in the gym. It probably did not help that I just got a new computer and I spent about 5 hours last night hunched forward as I was installing and configuring. Anyway, I was able to get out there, I had a few turns, but my body was not all that happy about it. Mostly my back, which is not a new problem. The two things that have helped a lot over time are Yoga/Stretching and Core work. I have done some of the yoga, but not much core work. I think that is what is missing, I think that is why it is so stiff (my back is not being supported when I torque it). I think that is what I'll do this weekend: go to the gym and work on my computer. I cannot wait to start producing some real video! I don't know why I like to edit video, but I do.

Not many people out there today, the waves were really pretty bad, but I think if I were healthy, I would have really liked it. I like to surf junk, especially because there is nobody around. Also, you never know what a wave is going to throw at you, which provides some good opportunities for turning in some random places. I think that this kind of training actually sharpens the timing a lot more than surfing perfect waves.

Michael sent me a pic of two guys on tours snaking in reference to Day 14 - Confusion, from some contest. Thanks Michael!

Tim, made the point that the door is open for me to break the consecutive days surfing record. Here is a link that Tim sent me, which is pretty funny (thanks Tim!) : http://www.surfingmagazine.com/news/surfing-pulse/030104_webster/

I cannot figure out if this guy is crazy or just really funny! Probably both.

Here is the excerpt from SurfingMagazine.com, in case the link does not work someday:

Sharks. Crowds. Kidney stones. 55-year-old Dale Webster has faced them all in his attempt to surf more consecutive days than any other human in history. Since 1976, Webster's barely left Sonoma County's Dillon Beach and Salmon Creek in order to maintain his streak -- drawing reactions from ridicule to reverence -- but the surfing world has always made a point of following his Quixote-esque quest, from a SURFING interview in '76 to a segment in Dana Brown's big-screen hit, Step into Liquid. And now, after 28 and a half years of daily sessions of at least three complete waves, the mission is over. On February 29, Webster officially called it quits, stopping on the magic number of 10,407 days in a row. Surfingthemag caught up with "Daily Wavester" just prior to this momentous occasion to find out: why such a strange number? What made him decide to stop? And, perhaps the most important question: can he?

I don't think I'll beat his record. Today was a tough go, see the video that I took as I was walking to the bus: