What I realized is that the "first" pump is crucial to start with good flow and speed related to the wave. I work each time on taking off on a compress position after the pop up and imidiately pump up to the higher 3rd of the wave and then point the nose to the beach to keep speed rail to rail. The challenge is that as a beginner this "first pump" doesn't come out optimally every time, but when it does, oh boy, it opens up a "door", very addictive. Thanks for the channel!
Thanks for the backhand tip mate. I was struggling on that one. I'll try it out. I remember the tip from the smooth star team: "scoop and clap" haha. Worked quite well
Great video, am an intermediate surfer and will think of the scooping the dirt tip on my backhand rides 👍 Love the intro tune, is that by "thatkidgoran"?
Hi kale! I'm glad you're speaking about it. I have a problem with my Achilles tendons they're a bit short so I cant bend my knees that much as u described in the video. I wanted to know if this problem is one of the main reasons my progress is slow..
@@nadnad123456 You could try and find a work around: create loading/unloading technique while not having full mobility. Skateboard and a few bumps or pump track are your friend, try and generate speed without putting your feet on the ground. It is not so much strength as it is technique.
Kale you just don't understand, or maybe you are just jealous this is the new style. Everybody surfs like this nowadays. We call it Soulkook. Beginners for life.
I think a lot of surfers have problems with looking down at the board or at the bottom of the wave. No matter how hard I try, I always look down and never ever look down the line. Even when I say to myself… don’t look down, I always look down. Any tips
Don't you want to see where you're going, what the wave is doing where you're wanting to go?? Don't drive a car looking down you won't live long hahaha
Confidence. Surf skating might help reinforce/re-shape the motor pattern - my course on thesurfersroadmap.com is helpful or check out my free tutorials on the channel
"Reason you're going too slow on a wave." 1. you're riding a HPSB when you don't have this skills to. Ride a fish, egg, or groveller that generates its own speed from the wave and learn the feeling and how to harness it. Then move to a HPSB when you are ready. Fun fact, many people will never be ready to surf a HPSB. So they can disregard all the funny shoulder/hingeing techniques and jumping to the top of the wave. Just get a board that goes fast on its own, point it and enjoy.
Me and my Dad watch your surfing tutorials together, even though he's got about 20 or so more years of experience then me we still learn a lot. Keep up the good work dude!
those visualizations might be helpful...scoop the dirt, jump, throw it behind the wave. I think I don't compress as much as I think I'm compressing. Knowing my hand should almost touch the wave will help me correct that. I'm really struggling with pumping...
Great video. Something that may be useful is looking at martial arts and the way body movements and principles transfer to surfing. Like body compression, weight distribution, drawing and directing power from the hips, keeping the arms tight to the body, foot position, ect. Keep up the great video and cheers.
If you can pump a skateboard or a scooter hard around bowls pumping on a surf board is the same thing all from the hips and abbs, most people need to work on flexibility before they even start
I watching this video yesterday before surfing and it instantly helped me! Thank you! I do have a tip from one coach to another. It can be confusing to talk about knee and back bend for some people. Talking and bending your ankles really helps to get people into the desired, athletic position. Keep up the great work, I am beyond grateful to have such amazing coaching at my finger tips!
i found this comment extremely interesting! as a beginner/intermediate surfer, i don't have the knowledge as you guys. but as a snowboard instructor I think I do see a resemblance with the common bending problem. to carve with a snowboard (heel to toe) a big tip for intermediate carvers is to imagine pushing your knees over your toes. toe to heel, is all about pushing the knees out(duck stance) or pushing the back knee into the font one (alpine snowboardstance). all that while keeping your upper body as upright as possible (balance/control). all this will allow you to go deep with well bent knees, "straight" back + staying in balance and generating power out of your carve when you enter the second part of the turn. the stance is different (snow-surf), but is was wondering if it is the same for surfing, or am I trying to see a resemblance that isn't there? big fan of this channel and the comment section, its a goldmine of information for a surfer who is trying to get better (still not good though ^^)
@@searuler789 as far as balance goes, mostly, however with surfing you turn from a place of balance over the back of your board, back foot pivote, not the front. And I'm my experience (I'm learning too!) You have to edge your board (go on your rail) then it's an upper body rotation that helps the turn. Idk, I can finally do it surfing! Doing my best to describe what I think I am doing
I was watching your channel on youtube and thought that it would be really great to introduce your video to Korean surfers We have lots of people here in Korea that are interested in surfers around the world. The market is growing rapidly, but we lack in information since surfing is quite new here. could I translate your video into Korean and introduce it on my UA-cam?
Yeah kale you are so awesome you have tort me so much now i can all most do a full air do you now the best place in the Northern beaches that have nice long waves so that i can set it up once again so many people admire you and you need much much more praise
Really helpful to see the basics performed by a good surfer on a foamy. I frequently go back to larger boards to work on maneuvers and find that the technique work translates well. I don't think people spend enough time really mastering midlengths and logs before jumping to high performance thrusters, which is a mistake.
The bottom turns, like you say, are a bit excessive in most of these examples. I think it was in one of your videos were you mention the value of bad wave surfing. Those are definitely the days to figure out on small, poor shaped waves how to improve where you're looking when you paddle into a wave, the flow and continuity of the pop-up, and getting onto the face earlier. You really can relax with your stand-up when you get the flow right. On many of these bad wave days you just can't ride the face of the wave at all with some of these bottom turns and pop-ups. Great video!
Awesome tutorial and really helpful tips! The thing I struggle with is that I'm more comfortable riding the goofy stance when I'm on my cruiser skateboard, but when it comes to surfing my leash is always on my right foot (back foot) so it's the opposite positioning. I'm wondering if it's worth retraining either my skateboarding or surfing footing so that it's consistent for learning and progressing.
If there’s anything I’ve learned, engage your rails and stay higher on the wave face. If you see white wash, good luck. Kelly Slater can beat it. But it’s tough.
Hi Kale, love your content! quick question. My surf/snowboard positon is Goofy buy my Skate position is Regular. Is that a problem? I can't skate while in Goofy position, I've tried. I can Surf both positions actually but when I leaned to surf my coach told me I surf better as Goofy. What do you think about it? Thanks!
Top tips as always Kale. At the start I was like, "Uh-ho, at the pool again Kale" but then I realised that because it gives a much more controlled and predictable ride, it helps your analysis and it's far easier to see and understand what you're talking about for us. So thanks heaps :-)
This is a amazing tutorial, but what does a guy like me do when the waves are so mushy and barely pushing me, I catch waves pop up and try to generate speed and it’s like my board bogs down the moment I put my back foot all the way on the tail (shortboard). I basically struggle with thigh high and under, but once it’s waist high and above, I seem to generate speed very easily. I’m 6’3” 195 lbs and a intermediate surfer, I just struggle in really small mushy gutless waves. Any tips?
kale i found this video so helpful. i always had trouble with keeping my speed after initially catching the wave. i finally had some good waves here in norcal where i could practice this. i must say it helped so much i was able to keep speed down the line and make it past the wave closing out on me. it helped out so much that people gave me fist pumps that i was really working the wave down the line. so thanks for explaining this so well.🤙🏻
I suck at surfing but I can ride fairly well. I have much more talent foiling. I’d love to start a channel to help people learn. Love your inputs Kale! Always helpful to get better
What I realized is that the "first" pump is crucial to start with good flow and speed related to the wave. I work each time on taking off on a compress position after the pop up and imidiately pump up to the higher 3rd of the wave and then point the nose to the beach to keep speed rail to rail. The challenge is that as a beginner this "first pump" doesn't come out optimally every time, but when it does, oh boy, it opens up a "door", very addictive. Thanks for the channel!
The “pluck”! Is gold! Thank you 🙏🏼
Thanks for the backhand tip mate. I was struggling on that one. I'll try it out.
I remember the tip from the smooth star team: "scoop and clap" haha. Worked quite well
7:35 is such a good example for me to understand i cant wait to try this tomorrow
so awesome to see quality surf tutorials on youtube. Contrasting beginner mistakes to proper technique is such a crucial part of progressing
🙏🏽
Your videos are always super helpful and posted at just the right time for me thank you from New Jersey
Thank you 👊🏾
Thank you!!!!!!!!!
I’m goofy footed and surfing Noosa Heads. I needed this hahaha
Thanks for your video!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Goldmine as always.
Cheers from france!
Merci mon ami! 👊🏾
Love the new intro 👍
Great video, am an intermediate surfer and will think of the scooping the dirt tip on my backhand rides 👍
Love the intro tune, is that by "thatkidgoran"?
Hi kale!
I'm glad you're speaking about it.
I have a problem with my Achilles tendons they're a bit short so I cant bend my knees that much as u described in the video.
I wanted to know if this problem is one of the main reasons my progress is slow..
Potentially! But strength perhaps could overcome
@@KalesBroccoli you mean core strength or Hips strength might cover it?
@@nadnad123456 You could try and find a work around: create loading/unloading technique while not having full mobility. Skateboard and a few bumps or pump track are your friend, try and generate speed without putting your feet on the ground. It is not so much strength as it is technique.
@@bw8476 Wow man actually I got a pump track near my place and never thought of it! That's a great idea!! Thx for giving me hope about this lol
That video is your best to me
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Nice video brother!!
😉👊🏾
Kale you just don't understand, or maybe you are just jealous this is the new style. Everybody surfs like this nowadays. We call it Soulkook. Beginners for life.
I love it
I think a lot of surfers have problems with looking down at the board or at the bottom of the wave. No matter how hard I try, I always look down and never ever look down the line. Even when I say to myself… don’t look down, I always look down. Any tips
Don't you want to see where you're going, what the wave is doing where you're wanting to go?? Don't drive a car looking down you won't live long hahaha
Confidence. Surf skating might help reinforce/re-shape the motor pattern - my course on thesurfersroadmap.com is helpful or check out my free tutorials on the channel
also will you be coming back to Avalon
Sorry not at this stage 👊🏾
@@KalesBroccoli I ment when covid has cleared up
"Reason you're going too slow on a wave." 1. you're riding a HPSB when you don't have this skills to. Ride a fish, egg, or groveller that generates its own speed from the wave and learn the feeling and how to harness it. Then move to a HPSB when you are ready. Fun fact, many people will never be ready to surf a HPSB. So they can disregard all the funny shoulder/hingeing techniques and jumping to the top of the wave. Just get a board that goes fast on its own, point it and enjoy.
Me and my Dad watch your surfing tutorials together, even though he's got about 20 or so more years of experience then me we still learn a lot. Keep up the good work dude!
Yo, this guy needs more praise
👊🏾
He the man aye!
those visualizations might be helpful...scoop the dirt, jump, throw it behind the wave. I think I don't compress as much as I think I'm compressing. Knowing my hand should almost touch the wave will help me correct that. I'm really struggling with pumping...
Literally the tips I need right now. Perfect timing
How much does foot placement have to do with getting into the power zone?
As much as it has to do with anything else - watch my video on foot placement 🙏🏽
Great video. Something that may be useful is looking at martial arts and the way body movements and principles transfer to surfing. Like body compression, weight distribution, drawing and directing power from the hips, keeping the arms tight to the body, foot position, ect. Keep up the great video and cheers.
If you can pump a skateboard or a scooter hard around bowls pumping on a surf board is the same thing all from the hips and abbs, most people need to work on flexibility before they even start
I watching this video yesterday before surfing and it instantly helped me! Thank you! I do have a tip from one coach to another. It can be confusing to talk about knee and back bend for some people. Talking and bending your ankles really helps to get people into the desired, athletic position.
Keep up the great work, I am beyond grateful to have such amazing coaching at my finger tips!
i found this comment extremely interesting! as a beginner/intermediate surfer, i don't have the knowledge as you guys. but as a snowboard instructor I think I do see a resemblance with the common bending problem. to carve with a snowboard (heel to toe) a big tip for intermediate carvers is to imagine pushing your knees over your toes. toe to heel, is all about pushing the knees out(duck stance) or pushing the back knee into the font one (alpine snowboardstance). all that while keeping your upper body as upright as possible (balance/control). all this will allow you to go deep with well bent knees, "straight" back + staying in balance and generating power out of your carve when you enter the second part of the turn. the stance is different (snow-surf), but is was wondering if it is the same for surfing, or am I trying to see a resemblance that isn't there? big fan of this channel and the comment section, its a goldmine of information for a surfer who is trying to get better (still not good though ^^)
@@searuler789 as far as balance goes, mostly, however with surfing you turn from a place of balance over the back of your board, back foot pivote, not the front. And I'm my experience (I'm learning too!) You have to edge your board (go on your rail) then it's an upper body rotation that helps the turn. Idk, I can finally do it surfing! Doing my best to describe what I think I am doing
Have you ever surfed a chilli Rare Bird? If so how'd it go?
Any way other than emojis😂
What length smooth star should one consider🤔
I was watching your channel on youtube and thought that it would be really great to introduce your video to Korean surfers We have lots of people here in Korea that are interested in surfers around the world. The market is growing rapidly, but we lack in information since surfing is quite new here. could I translate your video into Korean and introduce it on my UA-cam?
Would love to come over and teach at the pool but my country has imprisoned me
Yeah kale you are so awesome you have tort me so much now i can all most do a full air do you now the best place in the Northern beaches that have nice long waves so that i can set it up once again so many people admire you and you need much much more praise
Heya grommet! Give curl curl a go or Avalon! 🤙🏽
@@KalesBroccoli thank you so much for the advise
bro your helpin me sooooo much with my surf progresion that I should be paying you like this is not okay
😂 just sign up to thesurfersroadmap.com - if not, you’re still welcome 🤙🏽
How good is John Fisher courts to skate on!
Thank you i learnd alot from this video
first
Sick tutorial us usual bro🤙🏾🤙🏾
Thanks 🙏
Really helpful to see the basics performed by a good surfer on a foamy. I frequently go back to larger boards to work on maneuvers and find that the technique work translates well. I don't think people spend enough time really mastering midlengths and logs before jumping to high performance thrusters, which is a mistake.
👊🏾
You just let the genie out the lamp 🪔
Is there anything that will stop surfing being turned into golf? Of all the blights on the world, I think this is the worst.
Well done, this will help many many surfers out there!
Is this pool in Australia ?
Is a wavepool in Australia really cold enough to need a hood, boots and gloves? Genuinely curious
Can be
Wave pools more closely reflect atmospheric temp than the sea/ocean so in winter the wave pool is colder than the sea/ocean
love the intro!
乗りやすそうな波
The bottom turns, like you say, are a bit excessive in most of these examples. I think it was in one of your videos were you mention the value of bad wave surfing. Those are definitely the days to figure out on small, poor shaped waves how to improve where you're looking when you paddle into a wave, the flow and continuity of the pop-up, and getting onto the face earlier. You really can relax with your stand-up when you get the flow right. On many of these bad wave days you just can't ride the face of the wave at all with some of these bottom turns and pop-ups. Great video!
this video will help a lot
🙏
Love the new intro
Awesome tutorial and really helpful tips! The thing I struggle with is that I'm more comfortable riding the goofy stance when I'm on my cruiser skateboard, but when it comes to surfing my leash is always on my right foot (back foot) so it's the opposite positioning. I'm wondering if it's worth retraining either my skateboarding or surfing footing so that it's consistent for learning and progressing.
Commit to the surfing stance on both 🤙🏽
@@KalesBroccoli Cheers!! definitely gonna take some time adjusting to the change but it's probably for the best🤣 Thanks Kale!
Brilliantly explained as ever . Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
If there’s anything I’ve learned, engage your rails and stay higher on the wave face.
If you see white wash, good luck. Kelly Slater can beat it. But it’s tough.
The backhand pumping is a struggle. I'll try throwing some dirt around 😂😂. Thank you for the tip!
Great surfing progression tips. Thanks.
Thanks
Hi Kale, love your content! quick question.
My surf/snowboard positon is Goofy buy my Skate position is Regular. Is that a problem? I can't skate while in Goofy position, I've tried.
I can Surf both positions actually but when I leaned to surf my coach told me I surf better as Goofy.
What do you think about it?
Thanks!
Commit to goofy on both otherwise skate training won’t transfer over
NICE!!!! The tip on grabbing the dirt and throwing it over the wave is HUGE!!!
Cool mang ! Thank you my brother for bringing the funk,the thunder from Down Under
Would be nice to see one video about the backside more in depth man but other than that great tutorials as always 🤙🏻
How much volume on a foam board would be duckdivable at 40kg
Top tips as always Kale. At the start I was like, "Uh-ho, at the pool again Kale" but then I realised that because it gives a much more controlled and predictable ride, it helps your analysis and it's far easier to see and understand what you're talking about for us. So thanks heaps :-)
From a coaching perspective it’s unbeatable (but it’ll never replace the ocean)
This was awesome 👏!
Thank You for breaking it down the way you did 🌟
This is good stuff, great analysis Kale, quality video
again... great video! Absolutely cannot wait to get in the water
i cant believe this content is free to watch. Amazing bro
I like the clear cut jump, and shrug.
This is amazing! Keep up the great work ❤️
Great tips Kale! Big thanks 🤙🤙
fantastic tutorial as always. good work mate!
i love your videos man, keep it up🤙🤙
Great tips Kale! Big thanks 🤙🤙
Second
Awesome video!! Thanks Kale!!
Love all your videos great tips as always
brilliant vid...cheers Kale
loved that animated intro! cheers
I only get to surf ounce or twice a month as an experienced surfer how could I keep my progression up ? BSR is my local spot.
Join my surf skate program thesurfersroadmap.com 🤙🏽
very helpful thank you.
Amazing video Kale!
That’s awesome Kale thanks👌
After "jumping" into the power section of the wave, do I try to stay there when I'm pumping?
Too contextual to answer here
whos your board shaper
Numerous. #greatestboardtest
ok i use haden shapes normaly
This is a amazing tutorial, but what does a guy like me do when the waves are so mushy and barely pushing me, I catch waves pop up and try to generate speed and it’s like my board bogs down the moment I put my back foot all the way on the tail (shortboard). I basically struggle with thigh high and under, but once it’s waist high and above, I seem to generate speed very easily. I’m 6’3” 195 lbs and a intermediate surfer, I just struggle in really small mushy gutless waves. Any tips?
more volume required in your board?
@@urmama54 all my boards are 44 to 48 Liters, I have plenty of float. It’s like my fins don’t engage on any gutless wave.
@@offthewallsurfer1 whoa thats ample volume... what kind of fins u got?
🥳🥳🥳
Awesome tutorials 🤙 is this technique good for a longboard?
It’ll look a bit jolty
@@KalesBroccoli thank you 🤙 I appreciate it, wish I could had learn to surf at a younger age.
I know its not new, but love the intro😍
😍
Cool animation bro
Thank you
kale i found this video so helpful. i always had trouble with keeping my speed after initially catching the wave. i finally had some good waves here in norcal where i could practice this. i must say it helped so much i was able to keep speed down the line and make it past the wave closing out on me. it helped out so much that people gave me fist pumps that i was really working the wave down the line. so thanks for explaining this so well.🤙🏻
I suck at surfing but I can ride fairly well. I have much more talent foiling.
I’d love to start a channel to help people learn.
Love your inputs Kale! Always helpful to get better
Nice one! Always great advice 👍🏻