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

I gave you 20 lessons and you never learned anything.

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.

Bill here was telling me about surfboarding.

Some men prefer to surf

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Surfers, for example, know this incredibly.

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

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

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.

They did not wish to see their daughter participate in CKREE classes, where textbooks are in conflict with their life stance.

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

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?

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.

And my guess is that a lot of the surf kids did go to the site to get this entire picture.

Rip, Rip. Where is Rip?

The topic made it necessary to balance conflicting interests.

Should we be collecting it, gathering it, so we can make his online experience better?

And when the tides of waste matter come in it sounds as if a whole storm is approaching you.

These corals can be quite kind of mean, you see, and I have surfing scars to prove that.

But when we make surfing competitive, a recreational activity in which millions of people can happily participate is transformed into a spectator sport to be watched, for most, on a screen. It would be highly regrettable if the competitive sport s narrow focus on point scoring were to limit our appreciation of the beauty and harmony we can experience riding a wave without fitting as many turns as possible into our time on it.

I still surf. I sail the world. I freedive.

It was a sublime moment, but not such an unusual one.

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

UNRWA attempted to address the challenges to its educational programmes by conducting remedial classes.