i paddle board on my days off.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Paddleboarding participants are propelled by a swimming motion using their arms while lying, kneeling, or standing on a paddleboard or surfboard in the ocean. This article refers to traditional prone or kneeling paddleboarding. A derivative of paddleboarding is stand up paddle surfing and stand up paddleboarding. Paddleboarding is usually performed in the open ocean, with the participant paddling and surfing unbroken swells to cross between islands or journey from one coastal area to another. Champion paddlers can stroke for hours and a race is only a warm-up for well-trained watermen. Ships Artist, John Webber, accompanied Captain James Cook to The Sandwich Islands in 1778, and in the lower left foreground of his 1781 engraving is depicted a Paddleboarder/Surfer Rider. Thomas Edward Blake is credited as the pioneer in paddleboard construction in the early 1930s. While restoring historic Hawaiian boards in 1926 for the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Blake built a replica of the previously ignored \"olo\" surfboard ridden by ancient Hawaiian \"alii\" (kings). He lightened his redwood replica (\"olo\" were traditionally made from \"wiliwili\" wood) by drilling it full of holes, which he then covered, thus creating the first hollow board, which led to creation of the modern paddleboard.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love going out paddleboarding on the ocean near me"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've never been paddleboarding! It looks hard! Is it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "No all you have to do is swim while your belly is on the board.  if you get good you can try to kneel or stand"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I can't swim, so I'd be afraid to fall off the board! It may be fun to try with a life jacket though."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Definitely wear a life vest!  it will keep you afloat in water and could save your life"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I also live near an ocean, maybe I'll take up paddleboarding. What other equipment do I need?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "If you want to do stand up paddleboarding you will need an actual paddle, for paddleboarding you will need nothing but a board"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh awesome. I don't plan on trying to stand. Small steps, small steps. Haha!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes you can go and ride the swells and cross between islands or journey through the coass"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That sounds amazing and fun. That is definitely on my to-do list next time I go to the beach!"}]