I’ll be honest, I haven’t even thought about surfing since my last post, and I don’t really have time to write anything now, but SurfYoda did send me a cartoon done by a friend of a friend of his 10 years ago, that sums up this experience depressingly well.
Here it is:

This probably isn’t the best time to begin IAmNotASurfer.com, seeing as I’m snowed under with work at the moment. By “snowed under with work,” I mean nights and weekends are already spoken for.
Case in point: I stopped by Diamond Head on my way to work Saturday morning around 6:30am or so. I’d planned to do [...]

My first attempts to surf don’t coincide exactly with this blog. A couple of friends took me out a couple of years back, but I didn’t catch a single wave, and I didn’t paddle out again until this year.
A friend of mine, whom I will call SurfYoda for the purposes of this blog, has been [...]

I’ll start by saying that I don’t deserve this board. At least not this early.
I ended up with a classic shape 9′1″ longboard in perfect condition, which I bought for $400 (my budget limit) from an accountant who’s moving to San Diego. If a Hollywood makeup crew applied wax and hairline scratches to a [...]

For reasons I’ll explain later, I need to remain anonymous for the time being. So you won’t find much information on the site about me personally, identifying details will be changed in blog posts, etc. Bear with me, it’ll make for a good post when the time is right.

But I will be. I moved to Hawaii in 2001, and before this year, I barely went to the beach or played in the ocean at all, which was dumb. Therefore, I’ve decided to learn to surf, and I’m going to chronicle my progress on this blog. If all goes to plan, I’ll paddle out [...]