<H3>Dedicated to Every Surfer Who Knows What it Means to *Commit*!</H3>

![Making The Drop](https://source.unsplash.com/v5gGwubKzEA)
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<H6>Photo courtesy of [Johannes Andersson](https://unsplash.com/@thejoltjoker) and [http://unsplash.com](http://unsplash.com)</H6>

<H2>Making The Drop</H2>


<H3>You stroke like mad...</H3>

A wave builds. Rising higher and higher behind you, you stroke like mad, and hope with all your heart that you will be able to *make the drop*.

<H3>The drop is big.</H3>
The drop is great.<BR>

The drop is sheer speed, gravity and matter.<BR>

The drop is a feeling in the pit of your gut.<BR>

You talk about the drop all day.<BR>

You think about the drop endlessly.<BR>

<H3>You will dream about the drop tonight.</H3>

You remember the best drops for a lifetime.

You are a *fighter pilot*, falling from the sky towards your target.

You are a *hawk*, stooping toward your prey.

<H3>You *drop*,</H3>

tucking in and trimming and digging your rail into the face to control your descent.

>*For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling...* - Psalm 116:8

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