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Explore surf lessons, coaching answers, live-session replays, and conversations designed to help you understand what to practice next.
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- Surfboards
Alexei wrote in to ask a question about moving onwards and upwards from his 9′ INT soft top. Here’s what Coach Ev and I have to say to Alexei about choosing his next surfboard.
- 5 mins
- Free
Expanding your sphere of awareness is a key metric in measuring your growth as a surfer because at it grows it implies that what you are doing as a surfer physically, and what’s near to you in space is becoming familiar to the point where you don’t have to focus on it. This allows you to expand your focus and begin to see and be aware of things that are further from you. Listen to hear more implications of this concept.
- 30 mins
- Board Control, Press Up, Rail Set
Coach Chris and Coach Evan look over student footage and discuss why people nose dive, and some common mistakes you can correct in order to keep your nose out of the water
- 22 mins
- Podcast, Stories
Coach Ev’s telling the story of one of the top 5 waves of his life?! He wouldn’t make that claim easily so you can be sure it’s gonna be a good story!
- 29 mins
- Podcast, Strategy
Coach Ev and myself sitting down for our recording of “Creating Space”, which originally was supposed to be a simple episode centered around safety, but as we prepared to record found that we had a lot to say on this topic.
- 24 mins
- Uncategorized
You might be wondering why we keep cracking jokes about saying the same thing, and recording this for the thousandths time…it’s because this is actually the third, or possibly even fourth time we had to record this episode for various reasons that aligned themselves in a row.
- 21 mins
- How To, Podcast
We’re revisiting a popular topic at The Surf Continuum…how to learn more about surfing with your boogie board!
- 29 mins
- Press Up
Coach Evan tells the story of rebreaking his collarbone while surfing K-38 and Coach Chris discusses conquering fear in big wave conditions. They also talk about why students are still nosediving during their press-up.
- 28 mins
- Press Up, Prone Turn
Coach Evan tells the story of a surf adventure with his cousin going wrong in every way possible! The coaches also discuss the importance of the prone turn and setting the rail while looking over footage of Coach Evan surfing himself. Ajit also guest stars in the episode and asks the coaches about proper takeoffs and angling.
- 45 mins
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- Live Studio, Podcast
Coach Chris and Coach Evan are joined my Mind the Surf creator, Andrew Hapke to discuss The Art of Missing Waves in their second live session ever. Check your emails from us to learn more about upcoming live calls.
- 43 mins
