Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Maui Wave Rider Surf Lessons

The one thing that Justice really wanted to do while in Hawaii was to learn to surf. A few brave souls of our extended family & Brett joined him today at the Maui Wave Riders Surf School in Lahaina. Lahaina is about 25 miles up the coastline from the Resort. MWR geared them all up with surf shirts, water shoes and a surf board. Then they headed to the beach. On the shoreline, Chad (their instructor) showed them the basics of surfing and talked about some safety. Then out into the ocean they paddled.

In hind sight- we should have set up lessons for 2 sets of 3 instead of our large group of 6 because Chad only took them out one at a time. Bummer! The rest of the time they floated on their boards in the ocean tied to a buoy. Oh well! Lesson learned. Everyone did get 2 runs at least. And everyone got up on their board! Way to go!!!! Here's all our amazing surfers hitting the waves. We also learned that if you do the last session of the day- they close right after. Sad face! That makes it so if you want to "borrow" their boards for a couple hours [a perk of doing their school]- you have to come back another day. We plan on coming back Saturday if we have time. 

Here's a couple more shots of Justice & his certificate from the MWR for completing their Surf School. He was a little bummed how it turned out because he had envisioned a whole day catching the waves on the board with his Dad. Hopefully Saturday will make up for it.

Here's some shots of Brett. The kids definitely have the advantage of being smaller & closer to the board. Getting this tall gorgeous man standing up was tricky. And even more so since there were so many people! LOL See the one with Brett riding 2 surf boards? Oh yah- but where is it's rider? :) So glad he had this fun adventure with Justice. He is one pretty cool Dad!
P.S. Tauni got a CD of some of the pictures that the professional photographer took. When she sends me some- I'll add those as well.
Maui Wave Riders
133 Prison St, Lahaina, HI 96761
(877) 313-7873
(808) 661-0003

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