coping with not surfing for a while...

[iona]

i live in wales and surf pretty much whenever theres swell, which is quite often....am proficient, have been surfing for around 3years. get out back, noseride, dodgy cutbacks and happy in overhead waves. the reason i am on this site is to ask about experience/tips about not surfing for a while. this is a major factor in my life as im moving to the city to study. i will have gaps of surfing (a week here and there) when im home (month for christmas ) but all in all is surfing like riding a bike where you just get back into the hang of it or do you lose it? i love surfing and have a real passion for it but also want to study - torn between two! ive been in the city for two days and am already missing it, looking at surf reports just makes it harder. ok any advice would be appreciated,thanks ever so much!!!

p.s lived away from home last year and didnt surf as much as i used to and thought that my surfing (bizzarely) may have improved slightly!

[woodsybuh]

I live in Australia and the closet beach is about an hour away, and Australia being Australia it's always got surf! Haha, I get there as much as possible which is like once or twice a week. In the mean time when I'm at school I'm always lookin at the surf cams and just frothing to hit it. The way I cope is by training my breathing, holding my breth and tryin to do it longer and longer. You feel a difference when your out in bigger surf
Hope this helps! Haha

[TheSweatyButcher]

I'm interested in reading responses

[jaffa1949]

I live in Australia and the closet beach is about an hour away, and Australia being Australia it's always got surf! Haha, I get there as much as possible which is like once or twice a week. In the mean time when I'm at school I'm always lookin at the surf cams and just frothing to hit it. The way I cope is by training my breathing, holding my breth and tryin to do it longer and longer. You feel a difference when your out in bigger surf
Hope this helps! Haha

Flat spell for a month now doing more on the forum than surfing built steps in the garden, shot some birds with my Canon* walked the dogs paddled on the lake in front of my house and built up a supply of brownie points so I can go surfing when the waves return.
Oh and worried a little about woodsybuh and the closet beach nearby.
I tried hold my breath it didn't make the surf come just turned me purple.

[Katsura]

I can't... It's spring time in Aussie and Spring means northenly winds and xxxxx surf. really xxxxx.
On desperate days I still go out and have a go at the half a foot of soup - I am getting ALARMINGLY good at catching very small ones, once I think I caught a wave that is mighty 5 inches at the peak - that was the wave of the day too... - but of course, when caught, can only ride down the line because there's no power in it...

On especially bad days I like to entertain the tourists and surf school learners with my amazing skill of eating it doing fin first take offs - once I even thought about doing a bottom take off (flip the bord upside down and surf it wrong side up), but the idea of having a 10 inch skeg snaking around near my balls put an end to that...

So I bought a balance traning board to practice my cross stepping.

If it gets any worse I will have to turn to the dark side and get a SUP...