Surfing Waves

Hey I'm on this forum to improve my surfing so I thought I would provide some video clips of me surfing and see what you guys think, I noticed that I flail my arms a lot while trying to do turns, this ends up with either me falling, losing speed or just nothing happening. These clips are slightly old but I used to have a very wide stance, I have fixed that now but tell me guys what your opinions / tips are !

It looks like your arms are doing lots, but the work [turn] isn't being transferred down through your body - starting with your head turning towards where you want to go, through your shoulders turning, through your hips, through your knees, through to your feet, so that you feel pressure on different parts of your feet. Try it just standing on the ground, twist your head and let your body follow that, and you’ll notice your weight goes onto the outsides of your feet, that’s where your board will go.

In the vids you don’t really look where you want to go to turn, your head is static, particularly at the top of the wave when you wanna cut back after your floater and then at the top you look to your right but your lower body wants to go left so you fall off, if you'd looked back down the wave instead you probably wouldn’t have fallen off.

Slow your arms down a bit to match the turns you are doing. Think of a bird slowly flying as opposed to a monkey quickly climbing. You can speed it all up when you nail the moves.

Also, by compressing and extending you could generate some more speed at the first bottom turn, as you slightly stall at the bottom of the wave losing a bit of speed.

You got into a nice wave though and rode the dang thing nearly really nicely!
A couple of small changes and you’ll be ripping it I reckon!

When trying to turn move your feet instead of your arms. Push down on the side of the board that is in the direction you want to turn. Use your arms for balance. Once you get the foot movement down then the arms can help but without the foot movement the arms are pointless. Maybe also step a little further back on the board. Just curious, how did you end up with flailing arms like that in the first place?

Read this:

https://www.ombe.co/guides/how-to-surf-with-more-style

Go to 19:25.
Visual and analytical explanation of Mick Fanning using the energy from the wave vs your own wiggle energy.