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Learning to ride the waves

By Eric Neel
Page 2

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

EDITOR'S NOTE: As part of Page 2's series on Athleticism and Sports Degree of Difficulty, we assigned several of our writers to experience first-hand the difficulty -- or ease -- of competing with and against elite athletes in a number of sports. In this third installment, Eric Neel tries out the sport of surfing. CRESCENT CITY, Calif. -- I am lying on what feels like a perilously thin and narrow fiberglass board in the middle of the Pacific. Actually, that's not true. I'm not lying on it, I'm ...

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