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LADIES FIRST Tammy and friend Tash enjoying Caloundra’s mellow days. PHOTOS: Supplied INTRODUCED TO SURFING LATE IN LIFE, TAMMY PASCOE DISCOVERED SHE WAS A FANATICAL SURFER AT HEART. WORDS: DAVE SWAN 12 jan/feb <strong>2012</strong>
“I was living in London, really homesick. I met this guy and we planned to buy a Bedford van to travel around Europe. “When the guy we were buying the van from heard we were from Australia, his eyes lit up. He thought being from there we must know how to surf. He was just so animated when he talked about surfing that I thought to myself there really must be something to it. “He said to us, ‘That’s how you should travel Europe. Follow the surf.’ “I rang my cousin back in Australia and asked him where I might be able to get a board. He told me the only place he really knew of was Goodtime. So I rang them. “I was working as a nurse on night shift at the time and during a break decided it was the perfect time to ring Australia, given the time difference. So here I was feeding coins into a pay phone and Gail Austen, the owner of Goodtime, picks up the phone. I started asking her whether I was too old to learn to surf. I told her I was 26 years of age and all my friends back on the Gold Coast thought I was nuts, particularly considering the fact I was living in England. “Gail arranged to send me over this mini mal. The board bag arrived and to my surprise, Gail had also packed it with all these surf clothes and a note that just said, ‘Good on you for giving it a shot. Go for it. Surfing will change your life.’ That was in 1998. “When I got the board I went straight down to Croyde Bay near Devon. It was the middle of winter and I was too tight to hire a wetsuit, because I wanted to have beers that night (laughs) so I went out with just a wetshirt. I stayed out there though because I was really interested. “I had no idea what I was doing. The first day I didn’t do anything. On the second day I caught my first wave. I thought it was the best thing.” Tammy had officially caught the bug and headed off to surf spots such Ericeira and Figueira do Foz in Portugal, Mundaka in Spain and Hossegor in France. She soon came to realise learning to surf in Europe was a lot harder than it could be back home and decided to move back to the Gold Coast. For the next eight months she worked as a nurse on the late shift and surfed every morning for three hours or more. But what was it exactly that got her hooked so well and truly? “Surfing changed my whole body, my whole attitude,” she says enthusiastically. “I was a pretty impatient person. When it came to surfing, I was a slow learner. It challenged me to show a little more heart and be patient with myself. It also gave me a great deal more respect for the ocean. I had no idea how much you could get out of it. “I still remember getting that rush for the first time when I caught my first green wave... My eyes felt bigger than my head.” Tammy’s other great love is yoga, which she discovered thanks to surfing. “I was told yoga would help with my surfing and make me be a nicer person (laughs)... Well, at least a little more patient. Patience didn’t come naturally to me. “When I first started practicing yoga, I found it taught me to concentrate, focus and just enjoy what was happening at that particular moment and to not take everything so seriously... To learn to laugh at myself. “Power yoga helped with my upper body strength. I was a stick-person with no upper body strength and I found it really hard to push myself up on my board. Power yoga changed that.” So dedicated was Tammy to yoga that she became an instructor, registering her own business, Yoga NRG, in 2006. “I used to go down to Moffs (Moffat Beach, Caloundra) to practice yoga and watch the sunrise. A few ladies asked if I taught, and having just completed my teaching training, I started a class on Friday mornings. More and more ladies started coming down and I thought maybe I would like to do this full time.” The combined passion for yoga and surfing led Tammy to the next phase of her business career - surf and yoga retreats that she now runs with a close friend, Belinda Wehner. “Surfing and yoga had changed my life, so I just created my business around what I love.” Gerry LOpez Surf Music - 9’6” & 10’ Big Darling - 10’6” & 11’2” Lil’ Darling - 8’11” Sweetie Pie - 8’10” Sweetie Pie Ultraflx - 8’5” & 9’4” TAMMY PASCOE is the founder of Yoga NRG. As well as a range of yoga classes, including the popular beach sessions, they schedule regular surf and yoga retreats. www.yoga-nrg.com SURFTECH AUSTRALIA www.surftechaustralia.com.au jan/feb <strong>2012</strong> 13 02 4226 1322
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