He couldn't wait to try out his new surfboard.

MELBOURNE For me, as for most Australians, summer holidays have always meant going to the beach. I grew up swimming and playing in the waves, eventually moving on to a body board, but somehow missing out on learning to stand on a surfboard.

And do you think kids, you know, skateboarders, surfers, rock climbers, would use these things?

At the beach where I surfed today, I heard about a ceremony that had taken place there earlier in the season a farewell to a local surfer who had died at a ripe old age. His fellow surfers paddled out into the ocean and formed a circle, sitting on their boards, while his ashes were scattered over the surface.

One day in rehab someone, started talking about surfing and all these guys who'd never surfed before said, Hey, let's go.

A Surfing Reflection

Do you know anything about surfboarding?

just sit there and... and let the water come down over me.

And they went surfing.

Ruthie, my lass, the surf was wonderful.

The mesh double bumper is the newest NASA derivative of the Whipple bumper concept.

Bill here was telling me about surfboarding.

Some men prefer to surf

44. The stuffed Whipple bumper consists of an outer bumper, a catcher and one or more underlying layers of materials spaced between the bumper and the catcher to further disrupt and disperse the impactor.

20 billion dollars of this material is produced every year, in everything from building materials to surfboards to coffee cups to table tops.

It's sort of surfing on a magnetic field at the crest of a wave.

Hundreds of people gathered on the beach to celebrate the festival when the huge waves hit the coast at dusk on Friday. Many people were swept away by the huge waves, which destroyed everything wherever they went.

This beach is a paradise for surfers.

And if you can see on some surfing sites, in fact, not only do you see what the waves are like or what the weather's like, but on some surf rider sites, you see a little flashing poo alert.

I was a body surfer and I thought, Wow, that was an incredible wave!

Jeanette, you've been surfing again. Look at those knees.

I can drive my Toyota Element when I'm going to go on that surfing trip.

And I moved down to La Jolla and learned how to surf.

She spends way too much time surfing the web.

Developed during the early 1990s, this shield has a metallic mesh disrupter in front of each of two bumpers.

The Whipple bumper, the simplest shield configuration, consists of a single plate of material (typically aluminium), called the bumper, spaced some distance from the underlying module wall (often called a catcher).

The Whipple bumper is most effective at high impact velocities.

Surfers, for example, know this incredibly.

You know, they get a real bad rap in the world.

The solution is to judge certain skills displayed in riding a wave. There is nothing wrong with surfers competing to see who can do the most difficult maneuvers on a wave just as there is nothing wrong with seeing who can pull off the most difficult dive from the ten meter platform.

At Byron Bay, Australia s easternmost point, I was paddling out to where the waves were breaking. The sun was shining, the sea was blue, and I was aware of the Pacific Ocean stretching ahead thousands of miles, uninterrupted by land until it reached the coast of Chile.

She'd have to be the sort of a girl who'd jump in the surf with me and love it as much as I did.

For example, last winter I began with kite surfing so new things.

We stood back, we lit that thing, and they flew out of there they went through that plywood like it was paper.

43. More than 100 different shields have been designed to protect various critical components of ISS, although all of the designs are modifications of three primary shielding configurations the Whipple bumper, the multishock (or stuffed Whipple) shield and the mesh double bumper shield.

I've always found conflict between man and woman a waste of time.

(c) protection against rear impact which may consist of a bumper or frame

Thus, civil armed conflicts turn into a kind of mass crime wave.

That means that the beach might have great waves, but it's a dangerous place for surfers to be because they can carry with them, even after a great day of surfing, this legacy of an infection that might take a very long time to solve.

Was it his bad luck, I wondered, to be born too early to take part in today s lucrative professional surfing circuit? Or was it his good luck to be part of a surfing scene that was less about stardom and more about enjoying the waves?

This design also provides significantly improved performance over the standard Whipple bumper.

Don't do it, Eunchae.

They take their leisure very seriously they acquire skills they invest time they use technology that's getting cheaper it's not just the Internet cameras, design technology, leisure technology, surfboards, so on and so forth.

And when surfers are out waiting for waves, you probably wonder, if you've never been out there, what are they doing?

All you wanted was to love him... but he made it impossible, turning it into fear.