Sunday, 16 July 2023

Beatdown Thursday: By Philippe Laniel

 Going to keeners for the first time has you looking forward to a lot of things like kayaking everyday and surfing waves but the most exciting for me had to be beatdown Thursday. Going into the right side of Phils and getting a massive beatdown is something that I have seen many times but never done and on Thursday I thought it would be my time. I have gone close to Phils many times before but never had the right amount of peer pressure to get into the worse part of it. I was in the intention of going into left side Phils at first to then ease myself into going in right side Phils. I followed my plan at first and went into left side Phils but I was surprised as I went straight through as the hole gave my boat no resistance. After seeing how little of a beatdown I got in the left side, I was now ready to go to the right and again, not a lot of resistance was given by even the biggest side of the hole. I went and tried to get a proper beatdown many times after and got some tumbles but did not quite manage to get a proper beatdown this Thursday. My experience of beatdown Thursday was so much less scary than I expected it to be and it now is most definitely my favorite day of the week and for future first time keeners, it is not as bad as you may think.

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