Pmcaero,
Congrats man, looking at this new footage and comparing to the other ones you posted you really seem to be improving a lot!
I have to agree it seems a little odd your arms are so straight down, maybe you should get used (even on dry land you can practice) to use your arms to drive your board, while trimming or pumping. Try to stand on the floor in surfing stance, and just imagine you're going up and down the waves face, and use your arms to throw your body up and down, and keep attention on your knees movement. After you get an idea of what it feels like, will be easier to do the same on water.
This video has been posted here before and shows what I mean:
You'd be doing it much slower, since your board probably doesn't respond as fast as a shortboard (seems like at least 7'?), but it doesn't really matter how fast you do the movement. Guess it would help you with arm positioning!
waikikikichan wrote:Stop paddling the wave, when you're already up and riding. ( you can see you do it twice as the white water engulfs you, then you do a major one right as you get pushed out the back ) Use your legs to steer and drive the board. Using your back hand to pat the wave, just makes you squat more and breaks the body line.
I've seem a lot of guys trying to use their arms while standing up to push water back on mushy weak sections, like, when they were losing speed. This is out of question then? Never knew if it was good practice, but as a last resource seemed like a good idea.