Surfing Waves

Hi Guys,

Please kindly review my surf video and let me know what I should work on.

Not sure on this because I have never surfed one of these set ups!
Early waves look to have little push and maybe you took some time adjusting!
One thing that appears throughout all your waves is the same static foot positions and crouch it works for a soft lean bottom turn but failing the earlier top turns as the leaning un balances you backwards to wipe out.
The wave look hard to gain turning speed but maybe they changed the setting a little as the session went on you improved and were making the top turns and back to bottom turns.
There is some value in being able to stand up and compress for putting more power into drive through the hips and low back extension.just rotating the upper torso looks like you are doing something but doesn‘t translate into turning the board.

You show some weighting and unweighting between front and back foot great makes a difference being able to force some power into that weight shift directionally to enhance a turn would add stability rather than leaning alone.
With less powerful waves just a little more front foot pressure will increase speed but being able to shift back quickly and power the back foot and add body torque through that foot is a big answer.
Watch your videos see if what I am saying fits!

Somehow I missed this post. But hey! what fun! Looks like you are doing okay. I give the same advice to all learning to surf work on your bottom turns. Try to get speed from your bottom turns to go forward and cutback or up and down the wave at a steeper angle.

I will try to dissect and break down your many videos one by one later.

But in all the videos I see one glaring "defect".

Your front arm/hand stays in the same orientation, all the time. Yes your front arm swings front and back. But to turn a board properly you need to go from rail to rail. ( not just pivot in a flat plane )

To describe your front arm currently, it's sort of like a zombie or someone with a broken elbow in a cast.

Your arm is in the position of an arm wrestler winning and slamming his opponent thru the table. When you cutback though, you need to open the palm up to the sky, like a waiter carrying a tray or like an arm wrestler losing against his opponent.

Try it. Stand in your normal stance front hand out in front elbow shoulder high with knuckles facing the ground. Now rotate it up clockwise, like you're losing in arm wrestling. Naturally your shoulder and waist will twist back. ( and the opposite shoulder rises )

Now go back to your current style, arm in front elbow shoulder high knuckles down. Keeping the knuckles down, rotate from the front to behind your butt. It's just a pivot.

#1 Nice comeback. Bit of "Paddling the wave" or "Petting the doggie"
#2 Swung out of your shoes as the back hand fling up and over the head.
#3 Same fling arm and even less twist of the waist.
#4 Start, nice "S" carves. End with a kick out grab, good.
#5 Middle, some un-weighting of the body versus pumping the board. End, look down = go down.
#6 Good bottom turn after the forced up and over of the surfer in the way. Paddling on the face. End with a jump off.
#7 Two chances to do an Off the Lip or climb up the face, but you didn't capitalize.
#8 Nice comeback with front arm opening. Tic-Tac pivot on the lip.
#9 Quick comeback after the pop up. Most look back of any wave ridden. Paddling on the face.
#10 Back hand drag or grab on the bottom turn ? Great Back hand coming around and in front of the chest carve. Front arm's elbow elbow leads the twist, it's not the proper hand leadling, but at least it made you twist more back to the curl.

Your doing very well! Make sure you aren’t just pivoting your board up and down the wave though, took me a while to figure out but you need to jump up the wave and put weight onto your front foot to accelerate while also compressing. It comes with time and practice and just thinking about it during a session you want to work on it. You looked much better on the second half of the video as you started to look much more comfortable in the pocket, unlike the first half when you were running away from it. Just keep practicing and stay stoked (and in the pocket!), your smashing it!