What to text a girl on Hinge who mentioned she is learning to surf on weekday mornings

A weekday morning session means she is organising her day around something she cares about, and probably getting up before most of the people she works with. That is worth noticing. It suggests she likes discipline she chose herself, and that she may be tired by evening. Read the detail as a signal about her schedule and temperament, not only as a hobby to comment on.

The phrase 'learning' matters too. She is not claiming to be good at surfing. She is telling you she is in the middle of getting better, which means she is comfortable being bad at something in public. A reply that treats her as a beginner who is working on it, rather than someone who has finally cracked it, will land better. Your message should respect that she is in the awkward stage.

The reply shape that fits best asks a question about the learning itself. Something about the stage she's at, what keeps tripping her up, or what the early mornings are like. The job of this kind of message is to invite a specific answer she can give in a sentence or two, and to show she's the subject of your interest, not surfing as a topic. A draft is on the right track when it names something she actually said, like the rolling or the cold or the early start, and asks her to go further into it.

Leave out general enthusiasm, leave out any claim about your own skill, and leave out a second question stacked on the first. One specific question is enough. Two questions make her choose which to answer, and most people answer neither.

If she matched and sent nothing back, wait a day before following up, and don't send anything late at night when she's probably already asleep before her early start. Late replies also look like you're trying to keep a conversation going past the point where it's natural. A message sent mid-morning or early afternoon fits her schedule better.

If she replies briefly, match her length and keep the thread light. If she goes quiet after a second exchange, send one short follow-up a few days later that refers back to something specific, then stop. Two unanswered messages is a clear enough answer. Don't send a third with an apology or a joke about being ignored.