SURFING IS… WITH LEAH GREENBLATT
Leah with her new board
Last year Leah Greenblatt, a music editor at a large national magazine, found she was in possession of three things: a desperate need for sun, an unusual week of light job duties and some unused vacation time. She searched for a location that was an easy flight from New York and hit on Nosara. With flight booked and vacation time approved, she wondered what she was going to do, exactly, in Costa Rica. Eventually, she decided to take a week’s worth of surfing lessons at one of the local surf schools and quickly fell in love with the sport. Although new to surfing, she can be frequently be found on the local breaks around New York. Read Leah’s thoughts on surfing below.
Name: Leah
Age: 35
Where do you live: Greenpoint Brooklyn
Years surfing: 1
Surfing is: The best thing I’ve ever sucked at. It took me almost a decade after my first time out to get serious about it; I definitely regret all the years I spent watching friends and boyfriends rip it while I doggy-paddled around, afraid I’d never get good enough to catch up. Even now it still makes me crazy how out of your hands it is — the waves and the wind and the board, you can’t ever really control it so you just have to be humbled by it. A few weeks ago when it finally got seriously cold, I packed it in for the season. Now I miss it with my whole body.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 at 9:08 am. It is filed under Costa Rica, Nosara, Surfing.
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