99.999999% of all of us locals paid for lessons even if we didn't have the money to do so and the other 0.000001% aren't much smarter than Ben Roethlisberger riding a crotch rocket without a helmet. There is always a way to pay for lessons if you try hard enough, take a personal loan, take a cash advance, borrow from a friend. Work a payment plan out with a local instructor. The best way to earn immediate respect here is to take lessons. You seem to have "found a way" to pay for your gear, lessons should have come first. Give me one sport in which athletes "wing it" as a general rule. They all have coaches to teach them how to throw the football, run the bases, hit the tennis ball, shoot the puck, ride a wakeboard behind a boat, etc. This is not your everyday sport, you can DIE in a split second or worse yet, kill someone else. Take lessons.
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