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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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- Stand Up Technique
This week we’re evaluating John’s pop-up which is controlled, balanced, and results in good foot placement with minimal excess movement during execution. This is vital in order to achieve a fluid and smooth take-off. Let’s evaluate some of the keys to having a great pop-up.
- 2 mins
- Free, Paddling Technique
In the first video of this series, we’re discussing the most important element of good paddling technique–your board position. Even with the most supreme body form and powerful strokes, your “glide” factor and efficiency of energy will be greatly reduced if not eliminated.
On the contrary, when you have good board position, powerful strokes becomes much less important and your ability to glide across the water with minimal effort will be more readily discovered.
- 2 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
- Uncategorized
Coach Ev, Coach Chris, and Sophie checking in to discuss 13 Common Beginner Mistakes !
- 44 mins
- Question
Coach Chris and Coach Ev discuss Amanda’s question regarding choosing whether to stick to one surfboard, or mix it up between the few she has.
- 11 mins
- Board Control, Corking
It’s easy to underestimate the importance of making smooth transition from one fundamental skill to the next in surfing. But if you wish to become an efficient surfer, you’ll focus not just on your fundamental skills, but your transitions between like Coach Evan displays in this example where he goes from sitting, to paddling, to press up, then back to paddling. It’s the surf continuum of fundamental skills that make you a better surfer.
- 1 mins
- Question, Surfboards
Eric had a question about choosing a big wave gun. For those of you that don’t know, a “gun” is a type of surfboard used exclusively for big waves. It’s long, and relatively narrow for its length. Press play to hear me talk more about the good kind of guns!
- 8 mins
- Question, Surfboards
You could write about book about this question from Ashley regarding surfboards and how their different characteristics affect their performance. Nonetheless, I’m happy to navigate this question in the way that made the most sense to me in the moment starting with the often overlooked unit of measurement: volume.
- 11 mins
- Etiquette
Sometimes surfers share waves, and everything is cool and everyone is laughing. Other times surfers “share” waves, and someone is yelling. When is it OK to share waves?
- 8 mins
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- Live Studio
Coach Ev and Naomi hop into the Live Studio to review some of the clips they acquired together after a recent session.
- 63 mins
