When you are learning you are bound to ding your board. When this happens you should get out of the water immediately because your board is like a sponge and it will suck up water and get heavy and yellow. When you get out of the water you can do two things to get the water out of your board. You can suck out the water as if it was a venomous snake bite or you can leave it in the sun to evaporate (I do both when I ding my board surfing).
Once you have the water out of your board you have two options repair your board yourself or pay someone to do it professionally. If I were you I would just pay someone because chances are you going to do a crappy job, get super pissed off and then punch your board creating another ding. Ding repair only cost about fifty dollars which is reasonable since a bottle of resin and catalyst cost about twenty. If you just have a really small ding then you can just mix up about an ounce of resin and about 5 or six drops of catalyst. Once you mix these two chemicals together you have about 7 minutes to brush it on your board before it starts to get hard. Once it dries then you are going to want to lightly sand the ding until it is has the same texture as the surrounding fiberglass.
(small ding to the left, this ding you can repair yourself)
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