This is a crazy sport. Our arms are obviously not ready for this paddling craziness! We learned how to paddle and jump on the board (well... good luck to us with that move :D). After explaining where the waves we want to catch are, we were ready to start ... "paddle, paddle, paddle! " That's probably the most frequent word we heard this and the next 4 days :D
Overall, I really like it. Even I probably will never be any real surfer, this is a much more interesting version of swimming. The arm pain was really bad afterwards, I couldn't hold or lift anything with my left arm, as well as I got bruises from laying on the board. That all got better on the sequential days though ;)
Pay attention to our instructor in the main image! :D