Man… I actually started laughing reading your post because I could’ve written it myself. My wife and I moved down to Encinitas about 5 months ago, and I’ve been grinding through the prone learning curve ever since. Feels like all your foiling experience goes out the window once you pop up.
A couple things that have helped me stay sane:
Someone in a recent thread talked about “gamifying” the exercise side of it. I track sessions on my watch and focus on paddle technique (Nathan Florence has a good video on this). Even if I spend two hours chasing positioning and only have one wave to show for it, I walk away feeling like my fitness improved.
I also remind myself that, as much as I would love to be linking waves right now, the learning process has always been one of the most rewarding parts of any foil discipline for me. So yeah, prone has been a slower burn than expected, but I’m grateful to have a long runway of potential ahead to work for.
Hope that’s helpful. DM me if you want to catch very few waves together. I’m mostly at Tabletops and DM Dog Beach