two dif pop-up technique for shortboard

[surf patrol]

My problem with popups has more to do with my strength than it does with my technique. If I'm tired, then my popups start to slow down and my back foot can drag slowly into place. In other words, my technique changes (deteriorates usually) based on my fatigue level. Anyway, the single most important aspect for me when I'm popping up, especially on steep wave faces, is getting a feel for what Martin Dunn calls "the ledge". In the following video he describes it. The instant he used the word "ledge" in the video I knew exactly what he was talking about. I had been experiencing the ledge, but never had a way to think about it. Sometimes when I am able to describe things, they become more intuitive to me when I encounter them in whatever I'm doing. Maybe the video will help you too.

Anyway, when I first take off on a wave and my board locks into the wave's momentum, I can feel that ledge just as I'm about to pop up. My popup will usually succeed if my board is horizontal (still flat) in those first moments I'm in the ledge zone, but if I'm slow at the top of the ledge and my board starts to angle too far down the wave and pick up downward momentum, then my popup tends to fail. You may be beyond that mistake, but I find that's often where my popups usually go wrong. The success of my popups depend on my fatigue level and the verticality of the wave face. Here's the video.

[Big H]

Paddle more effectively and position better to get in early as possible....stop the slide and put your hands further back when you pop up....timing is key too; don't wait too long or go too early.....practice will tell you when....keep your chin up, head high, catch a few on your belly with no attempt to pop up just to get the rhythm of the waves and the feel of catching paying attention to timing during that process then make attempts to pop up....you'll get it....

[lachyd333]

Thanks for all the info guys, been really good. Am working on it all and will post a video when I feel that I'm deaing with my backfoot toes first problem more effeciently

[lachyd333]

Hey guys, not sure if any one will see this as its quite old. But I have found that my pop up is now so much better and it was a result of changing my hands. I knew I had to put my hands down low but they weren't low enough. I was putting them at about my shoudle rto nipple height in those old videos. Now, I put my right hand conciously as low as I can, somehwere near the lower end of my ribs. This forces my body to turn as I pop up and helps my hips get into the right position :)!

[jaffa1949]

I saw it and great to see a good result!
So often answers are given in a thread and the asker never replies and surprise surprise we like to hear that we helped!

[Big H]

That ol nipple height will get you every time...