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24 Thoughts Every Female Surfer Has In The Water

Is that suspicious-looking object a shark or just a twig?

One of the best things about surfing is that it’s fairly all-consuming – a chance to escape from the everyday and just enjoy being in the water.

But as much as you would like to stay in a state of surf-zen, you can guarantee some thoughts will sneak through…

1) When you first get in, everything is awesome

Paddling is easy, you feel good and you’re excited to go surfing

2) Slowly you realise the paddle out isn’t quite as quick and easy as it looked…

Your shoulders are burning and you resolve to actually do those surf fitness sessions you’ve been meaning to get round to

Photo: @surfsistas

3) Maybe you haven’t timed your paddle out as well as you hoped…

4) Half way through your duck dive, it goes totally wrong…

5) But you can’t beat the feeling of getting one right and gliding underneath the power of the wave

Photo: @richard_kotch

6) Or the satisfaction of realising you’ve nailed the timing and completed a dry-hair paddle out

7) You finally make it out and realise the waves are bigger than they looked on the shore…

Photo: Mpora

8) You realise you are waaay outside your comfort zone…

How am I going to make it back in?!

9) You find yourself in the perfect spot for a wave, but chicken out and paddle over it last minute

Photo: @stephaniegilmore

10) It all goes flat and quiet. You start thinking: What shall I have for dinner?


11) Will the surfer next to me think it’s weird if I start up a conversation?

Photo: Out In The Line Up

12) Is worth peeing in my wetsuit to warm up?

Photo: The Inertia

13) Is that suspicious-looking object a shark or just a twig?

It was a twig, right?

http://i.imgur.com/Ovh9hEh.jpg

14) You’ll wonder why you do this to yourself, especially when you’re getting changed in a rainy car park…

I can’t feel my hands!

Photo: streamer.co.il

15) Or when you get caught on the inside…

Photo: Washaway Beach

16) Or when you seem to have forgotten how to surf…

Photo: Surfer’s Path

17) Or when you collide with another surfer…

18) Or when you catch no waves for a whole session

Has anyone has noticed you haven’t caught a wave yet?

Photo: New York Daily News

19) But then you catch one and it makes it all worthwhile…

Photo: @surfsistas

20) And you are so stoked you want to do it again, and again, and again

Cross your fingers someone saw it to verify how epic it was!

21) Because nothing beats the high of an amazing wave..

Photo: @anacatarinaphoto

22) And messing around in the sea…

Photo: @stephaniegilmore

23) And sharing waves with your friends

Photo: @lauraenever

24) You can’t help feeling super lucky you get to surf

Just being in the sea is enough to make your day

Photo: @rissmoore10
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