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| I started life guarding for the city of Santa Cruz in 1978. That summer I started teaching a surfing class through the local Parks and Recreation. I believe you could have counted the number of surf schools in California on one hand back then. Since then surf schools have become quite popular. Year's back there seemed to be mostly a select crew of hardcore individuals who surfed. Nowadays surfing is enjoyed by people from all walks of life. Personally I think it is awesome so many people are now enjoying the surfing experience. For young kids, there's no better way to release all that energy and have a positive way to focus it. For adults caught up in fast-paced lives of the new millennium, surfing is the ultimate way to get back into touch with nature which in turn helps to alleviate stress. Surfing requires that you focus on the moment and as a result all the stress from that fast pace life is left on land. A lot of surfers are not to keen on the population explosion in the water. There's no doubt that crowded days in the line-ups can be frustrating. However, common sense reality is that surfing should be available for anyone who wants to try. We as surfers need to share. So as a result of catching a few less waves, there will be more people in the world with a stoked smile on their face that only a good day's surfing could bring. What could be so bad about that? |
