pmcaero wrote:I focus on one new thing, but then I forget to do another that I worked on before

Hope it becomes a natural flow soon.
STOP THINKING!!!
Go through it all on the internet, practise your pop-ups at home, work out where you need to be in the water from the beach, work out where you're paddling before you even turn the board around, then turn the board around, start to paddle... AND STOP THINKING!!
I'm certain that your problem is almost entirely mental. From the videos, you're stiff and you're doing the thing that you think you
should do next (crouching, for example), you're not letting that natural flow happen.
On a bigger and more critical wave (which, for the sake of argument, let's take as being my equivalent of you on a smaller wave), I do all I said above,and I start to paddle, I have a couple of 'zen strokes' - I look down at the board, concentrate on (but not think about) my paddle, clear my mind, then as the wave approaches, head up, quick check left and right, then focus down the line... just down the line... not where my feet are, where my hands are pointing, just down the line... your body will work the rest out. Easy.
