{"id":113344,"date":"2018-12-17T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=113344\/"},"modified":"2018-12-17T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T21:16:08","slug":"surf-guru-gerry-lopez-medicinal-powers-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/pt-pt\/journal\/surf-guru-gerry-lopez-medicinal-powers-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Surf Guru Gerry Lopez On the Medicinal Powers of Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learn from legend Gerry Lopez in person at Wanderlust O’ahu<\/a> this winter! For tickets and more information, click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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When I connect with Gerry Lopez<\/a>, he\u2019s traveling in San Jose del Cabo with his family. \u201cI\u2019m going through this phase in my life where I\u2019m learning to become a surfer again,\u201d Gerry jokes. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy, man is it rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite what his humble words might suggest, Lopez is no novice when it comes to catching waves. The Hawaii-born surfer found what would become a lifelong passion in 1958, when his schoolteacher mother brought a 10-year old Gerry and his brother down to the beach at Waikiki, where some of her students ran a board rental stand. \u201cIn Hawaii in the 1950s, all life revolved around The Beach.\u201d Lopez tells me. \u201cPeople would refer to Waikiki simply as that, The Beach, as though there were no other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since catching that first wave, he was hooked. \u201cThat first time you surf\u2014it\u2019s the most extraordinary sensation,\u201d says Lopez. \u201cThere\u2019s this feeling of gliding\u2014you feel as free as a bird. Most surfers spend their entire lives trying to re-discover that initial sensation.\u201d<\/p>\n