I’ve never been so excited about a sport before, although I must have felt the same way about tennis when I was 8 cause I’m still playing it today! Its been a little over a year since I started surfing and well I’m proud to say I’m an advanced beginner. I don’t know if advanced beginner is a surfing term, but for those of you who are tennis players you know exactly what an advanced beginner is.  I’ve played tennis close to 22 years and I kind of forgot the feeling of ripping a backhand down the line for the first time. I guess I forgot the newness of being a beginner and progressing to the next level. Surfing is reminding me, in a very humbling way in fact.  You see the errors I’m used to are balls in the net, balls flying out, mis-hits which is all very frustrating……but trying to get through a breaking wave, getting slammed by the lip, almost hitting the jetty…..sharks….. a whole new way of doing a sport—it’s awesome and humbling!I think surfing has helped me be a better teaching pro, especially when I teach beginners……I guess remembering when I wasn’t so good myself is giving me new insight…..