Surfing is definitely more than an awesome sport! It makes your body looks super toned and you feel a lot healthier, it have all the adrenaline that comes with the empowerment of caching a wave, and puts you in direct contact with nature and salt water gives u a peace and happy state of mind. Surfing makes you feel powerful, invincible and totally boost your confidence.
Chica brava is a life changing experience for me where I share with this other amazing ladies that with all the love, compassion, camaraderie respect and thoughtfulness are teaching me how to surf. Chica brava has improved and empower the life of so many other women around the world through surfing. You definitely become the best version of yourself, you start feeling brave, courageous, confident, strong and passionate about surfing. As soon as you are able to catch your first wave and pop up you feel this big rush! And all you want to do is do it again!
And yes you definitely feel more confident…you are being able to catch waves! How empowering is that!?and it hasn’t done that just for me…I see the women around me learning how to surf and you see the beautiful change in their personalities and gaining more confident and believing in yourself is all you need to get around in this life.
When you practice surfing you are definitely in tune with your mind and body and the power that comes out of that gives you all the confident to trust in yourself and sync your motions with that confident, I haven’t been the most confident person but since I started surfing I can feel I am more happy with myself, motivated and playful.. it doesn’t matter anymore the feeling of who is watching or what would they think about me or why are they judging that is irrelevant now! All I want to do is get back in the water and have fun! So for me surfing have help in my self acceptance because im just having the best time and enjoying myself, I trust and believe in the process of positive change that I’m putting myself thru.
As a women that have battled with low self-esteem and depression I can totally say that having the blessed of surfing with chica brava camp that is just for women have put myself in the position not just of learning how to surf but also gain confident, believe in myself, and get inspired by all this women that I have meet that are also struggling with so many different and similar issues in their life. Besides learning how to surf I gain friends, motivation, inspiration and confident.. I have changed, I feel like a new person now and there is no going back.