Relaxation + Fun
Posted by Paige Hareb - Chasing the Dream
Saturday, September 20, 2008
There's something in that equation as I've learnt in the last couple of weeks.
After a slew of travelling I finally got to spend a couple of weeks at home.
I have never appreciated it more.
Even though the weather or the surf wasn't the warmest or the best I still really enjoyed my short stay at home. While I still surfed and trained every day, my mind was pretty much off the whole surfing ordeal.
I guess just having my family and friends around helps me with this.
I loved spending time with most of my family, just letting myself go and playing with my little cousins who are five and three.
I watched my five-year-old cousin play soccer for my old local Oakura primary school. It definitely brought back memories from when I played. My feet were twitching on the sideline!
I also caught up with most of my friends whom I hadn't seen from anywhere from between four months to a year. A long time indeed but when friends are friends, you click like you saw them yesterday!
Even though the surf was six feet, offshore and pumping, I still had the snow itch so decided to go on a two-day road trip to Ruapehu with two of my mates. We had a couple of the most beautiful days of solid, non-stop snowboarding. It's always a good road trip when the music is blaring in the car and everyone's singing along!
It was that background of a few weeks of relaxing and having fun that came ahead of jumping back on the competition merry-go-round with the recent competition I have just surfed in at Nelson's Bay near Newcastle in Australia.
It's one of the few times I have travelled away without either of my parents and I stayed with seven other girls who are also sponsored by Billabong. Unfortunately we got worse weather than New Zealand with howling winds and huge stormy surf. However, that will never stop a bunch of girls from having fun!
From singing and dancing to watching movies. I had a really good week and topped it off with actually winning the Billabong Under 20 Pro Junior event. I was able to beat the current World Junior Amateur Champion Laura Enever and Tyler Wright respectively along the way in the semi and final. I guess just being relaxed and having fun really does help you win!
I am now placed at No. 3 on the Australasian Under 20 Pro Junior ratings but I won't advance any further since there is only one more comp in the series and it clashes with two WQS (World Qualifying Series) events I am doing in Brazil.
That's a bummer but with a chance to qualify for the ‘Dream Tour" (the World Championship Tour for the top 17 girls in the world), the WQS has to take precedence.
I was pretty happy to finish my 2008 Pro Junior endeavours on a high, though. It was my third Pro Junior win for the year and completed a good couple of weeks for me. Trust me...New Zealand is still one of the best places in the world!
We Kiwis complain too much and don't appreciate enough what an amazing little piece of Planet Earth we are lucky enough to live on!
See ya Mate!
Paige Hareb - Offshore and can't wait to get back home to Aotearoa!
After a slew of travelling I finally got to spend a couple of weeks at home.
I have never appreciated it more.
Even though the weather or the surf wasn't the warmest or the best I still really enjoyed my short stay at home. While I still surfed and trained every day, my mind was pretty much off the whole surfing ordeal.
I guess just having my family and friends around helps me with this.
I loved spending time with most of my family, just letting myself go and playing with my little cousins who are five and three.
I watched my five-year-old cousin play soccer for my old local Oakura primary school. It definitely brought back memories from when I played. My feet were twitching on the sideline!
I also caught up with most of my friends whom I hadn't seen from anywhere from between four months to a year. A long time indeed but when friends are friends, you click like you saw them yesterday!
Even though the surf was six feet, offshore and pumping, I still had the snow itch so decided to go on a two-day road trip to Ruapehu with two of my mates. We had a couple of the most beautiful days of solid, non-stop snowboarding. It's always a good road trip when the music is blaring in the car and everyone's singing along!
It was that background of a few weeks of relaxing and having fun that came ahead of jumping back on the competition merry-go-round with the recent competition I have just surfed in at Nelson's Bay near Newcastle in Australia.
It's one of the few times I have travelled away without either of my parents and I stayed with seven other girls who are also sponsored by Billabong. Unfortunately we got worse weather than New Zealand with howling winds and huge stormy surf. However, that will never stop a bunch of girls from having fun!
From singing and dancing to watching movies. I had a really good week and topped it off with actually winning the Billabong Under 20 Pro Junior event. I was able to beat the current World Junior Amateur Champion Laura Enever and Tyler Wright respectively along the way in the semi and final. I guess just being relaxed and having fun really does help you win!
I am now placed at No. 3 on the Australasian Under 20 Pro Junior ratings but I won't advance any further since there is only one more comp in the series and it clashes with two WQS (World Qualifying Series) events I am doing in Brazil.
That's a bummer but with a chance to qualify for the ‘Dream Tour" (the World Championship Tour for the top 17 girls in the world), the WQS has to take precedence.
I was pretty happy to finish my 2008 Pro Junior endeavours on a high, though. It was my third Pro Junior win for the year and completed a good couple of weeks for me. Trust me...New Zealand is still one of the best places in the world!
We Kiwis complain too much and don't appreciate enough what an amazing little piece of Planet Earth we are lucky enough to live on!
See ya Mate!
Paige Hareb - Offshore and can't wait to get back home to Aotearoa!
1 comments so far...
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Nov 9,
2009
2009
06:48 pm
dear Paige, i would just like to say that you are AWESOME and you are deffinately my role-model. good luck for the future!!! xxxxx
- Posted by Sam
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