Star Wars here we come Things could get a wee bit wild
hey whats up! wait havent we talked before?
hey yeah we have haha! It's so funny out of all the people on here we end up talking hahaha
i know it is crazy right! I am on a lot so it isnt a big deal
Ah well there ya go Wait are you first on the leaderboard?
well no that is siratus i think.... thats jaezo i think
dang they're wayyyyy up there
have you talked to him before?
they've gotta be on here all the time nope
I am in the top 10 but not at the top
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i want to be though
I'm in the 20's I think yeah same here haha
but we arent supposed to talk about the competition so i try not to talk about it
oh I didn't know that oops olroighty then what do you wanna talk about?
how about cats have you ever had one? I havent
ooofff nope half of my family is allergic to cats and the other half hates them haha I'm neutral
hahaha do you like dogs then?
ohhh yes I love dogs I've never had one though :( have you?
yeah we have a maltese poodle my family and i it is like 14 years olds now she is such an awesome dog very energetic even though she is getting older and starting to go deaf and get sick
Daaaaang!!
she has lost almost all of her teeth it is really sad
awwww :( what a legendary dog though to be that old
yeah she is doing really well for as old as she is
that's awesome what's your favorite kind of dog?
i think i just like my dog her name is crystal and she is just the best dog i have ever had smart, energetic, and playful and she is very obedient for the most part though she can be a little tricky at times.
awe that sounds like a stellar dog right there how so?
she is just really smart so if she knows she wont get caught she will do mischievous things
hahaha that's awesome, my dad had a dog that would do stuff like that when he was growing up The dog was a medium size but it could jump and unlatch the gate and go around the neighborhood and every time it came back it always had food with it It would steal steaks off of grills and everything
hahaha that is funny you are lucky the neighbors didnt get wise and teach him a lesson i would freak out if my dog was doing that then again maybe the neighbor was secretly feeding it
yeah who knows haha it was when my dad was really young but as far as I know the dog always got away with it It was a sneaky dog for sure They tried stopping the dog from escaping by getting better locks on the gate but it never worked he was way too clever and always found a way out
interesting dogs can be smart what is your favorite type of animal?
hmmm I really like dolphins a lot and golden retrievers they always come off as super happy all the time and I feel like I'm kinda the same way or at least I want to strive to be
dolphins are really cool did you know that they are almost as smart as we are?
yeah I've ran into a good few while surfing and they're awesome dang really? I didn't know that!
oh yeah
I believe it for sure though
so when is the last time you went surfing again?
Saturday! I live about 10 - 15 minutes from the beach
oh wow that seems like something that would be so fun to do
yeah it's a lot of fun
i am not that great with balance
I'm not very good at it but it's more about having fun You don't really need to be as long as you have the right kind of board Popping up is the really hard part and the boards I have aren't very helpful with that so it's rough But it's all good, simply being in the water at sunrise on a surf board is allll you need
so it only works at sunrise?
nah any time of day as long as the tide and swells are good I just prefer to go at sunrise, conditions are usually really nice and it's incredible watching the sunrise against the ocean best way to start the day for sure
yeah i would bet and even better than watching the sunrise from the shore or wait does the sunrise before you can go on the water? or can you go as it is rising?
you can go as it's rising for sure because it's light enough to even be out there at 5:45 or so when the sun isn't even up yet
oh ok
you can go in the water whenever you want, some people even go night surfing (it's super sketchy I wouldn't recommend it unless you have a big group with you) ^and lots of glow sticks
haha that sounds awesome but also dangerous are there any sea animals that mess with surfers?
oh yeah there are not too many sharks around here and if there are they don't really mess with anyone dolphins are hilarious they love to swim under surfers when we're out sitting on our boards and waiting for a good wave it's really cool some dolphins are crazy though haha just a week or two ago a video was released of some guy surfing around her and there were about six dolphins swimming the wave with him, but one leaped out of the water while he was surfing to knock him off of his board it was toooo good ut of everything though I'd say sting rays are the absolute worst. *Out I've been stung twice and it kills. The first time it broke my two in half while the second time the poison exploded in my foot and gave me hives all up my leg no bueno
your two? or your board? That is crazy so it doesnt happen often then?
my toe sorry typo haha no it doesn't happen too often
thats good i would freak out if it did
sting ray stings happen really often during the summer, a good few get stung every day because people forget to shuffle their feet through the sand
I dont like getting attacked by sea animals what does that do to help?
haha it's not all that bad, you don't even realize it at first because stingrays stay low to the sand and sometimes stay a little bit under the sand, so if you step on them they'll probably sting you in defense. If you shuffle your feet it's like a warning so they move out of the way and no harm is done the bummer is that you can't always shuffle your feet because of waves, so when you jump over a wave, you could land on a stingray, which is what happened to me
oh that sucks that makes sense though i was thinking that you meant that you had to shuffle your feet in sand before you went in the water because it masked your scent or something so stingrays are usually nice then
hahahahahaha that would be pretty good, I wish it was that simple
yeah why do you have to jump over the waves, cant you just swim through them? and how do you if they get really tall?
you can, but it's fun too jump over them when they're still building, then you can just float over the top when the waves are really big and they're about to crash on you then you have to swim under and get as low and close to the sand as possible so the wave doesn't pull you back
oh do you mean while you are still on the board or while you are wading through the waves?
oh no I'm just talking about being in the ocean in general with surfing it's different longboards, like the one that I have, are harder to get under waves because of their shape so unless you've perfected the turtle roll, you have to bail out on the board and swim under the wave if it's crashing on you and hope that the board doesn't pull you back to much if you have a short board it's much easier to go under waves because they're easy to control
wait is the board attached to your leg or something?
yup with the leash
ok