Will I ever learn? 3 years in

[pmcaero]

There is a tennis saying: once a week always a novice!
I think it is even more applicable to surfing!

No offence intended

nah you can go once a week all year but if you get a couple of weeks where you go 3 times a week you will definitely improve constantly.

[oldmansurfer]

it's more than how often you go surfing. You need to actually be catching waves. How many waves do you catch a week? And then it is more than that too. You have to be working at learning or the rate of learning will be slower. There is also the part about fitness, are you becoming more fit? If not the learning rate will be slower. If you are actually catching waves and working industriously at learning to surf you can improve one a week but twice a week will be twice as fast.

[mrleeson660]

Hi mate

Definitely don't give up imho.

From your vids apart from a sharper / faster pop up your pretty much doing what you can on those really small waves.

My advice would be slowly try to go out in bigger waves (say chest to shoulder high). Even take a body board out or go for a swim just to get used to it. Develop some set techniques for getting caught inside so you can stay calm and not worry even when a bigger set comes through. With your board and some proper commitment / determined pop up you should be able to get into a bigger wave pretty early so hopefully not too steep, trim your line then just enjoy the ride Once you realise your not going to die you'll get more confidence then shoulder high waves will become normal and you'll wonder why you used to be scared.

Final suggestion from me and a little bit left field is to keep a diary of your surfs and conditions. Quite good fun and great to track progress / build confidence.

Good luck