I like coaching. It's fun to stand on the beach and analyze what the person is doing wrong or not doing right, have them come in, give them a pep talk and do a bunch of silly gyrations on the beach trying to explain how to bottom turn more or hit the lip earlier and things like that. It's all easier said than done of course, but you feel like you know everything standing on the beach.

"Shoulda taken the first wave of the set..."

"Hit the lip a little earlier"

"Bottom turn deeper"

etc.

It's really fun if the person you are coaching actually wants to be coached and is interested in what you have to say. Lately i've been working with a fired up grom from Newport named Shelby Detmers. She gets me even more fired up to surf. Last week we hit up Salt Creek a few times and other than the super annoying crowd in the water, it was pretty fun.