Little Duck

For the first hour it was me and a little duck out there. The duck does a beautiful duck dive (paddling out technique for shortboards--instead of a turtle roll). I was able to work on my frontside turn. I'm actually better on the backside turn. Like everything else in my life, this is totally backwards. I was up and riding twice when I had to turn to avoid an oncoming surfer paddling out. This was cool. Normally, I would just bail, but today I actually stayed on my board, turned around the guy and continued my ride.