Florianopolis - surf's up, and shockingly, so am I

[terrencechan]

The first time I attempted to go surfing, I was 19. I was in Santa Cruz, CA. I was roadtripping with my cousin and we stopped in Santa Cruz to visit a childhood friend of my dad's, who was an astronaut for NASA, which we considered pretty badass. My dad's friend was also a surfer and so he agreed to take both of us out surfing -- it would be the

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[evwhore]

Congrats on successfully surfing :-) Even baby-surfing is more surfing than I can do, so...

I suspect some of hockey knowledge is transferrable into being a soccer goalie. I don't mean, will-turn-you-into-an-instant-expert, but just that there is probably some similarity in reading plays, playing angles, etc.

[terrencechan]

Yeah I suspect the same wrt hockey/soccer goalie transferability. One big difference is that ballhandling is much more important for the soccer goalie than in hockey; the defenders (or whatever they're called) often pass back to the goalie as though he were one of them.