I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I work out a lot, but I like to do action sports. A lot of surfing, mountain-biking.
I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.
I'm into outdoor sports like hiking, windsurfing, water-skiing.
I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!
I surfed competitively from age 13 to 18. Every day, before and after school. I wanted to surf for the rest of my life. It's what all my friends did - I even had it as a subject in school for a number of years.
I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.
Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water.
I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.
I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.
Until 2005, I still thought of my surf lifesaving career as fulltime and kayaking as a pastime. I watched the 2004 Athens Olympics and saw people racing that I knew I could beat, and that was probably the turning point: I decided I should either do it properly or stop wasting time kayaking and concentrate fully on Ironman.