When you feel the tail going up and the nose going down at that precise moment you pop up Not before and not after Thank you!!!!🎉🎉🎉watched 75 thousand videos and all I hear is blah blah blah finally an answer!!!❤
@@shannonainsliesurf Same. I've never heard this before and usually wait until the board is planing and I end up body surfing the wave especially on shore breaks.
I think the timing is effected by the kind of board and the kind of waves. Gradual predictable waves give you more time and hence it's easier to get the timing right. Longer boards have a longer paddle in, maybe 3 or 5 strokes while shorter boards 1 to 3 strokes.
Tail lifts and nose dives…I just need these words to take on mind when I’m on my board to take an unbroken wave! Thank you very much. This video was 100 more helpful than the others found on YT.
This is great! There're a lot of surf coaching youtube channels with crazy productions or guys explaining with a whiteboard, but I find it really helpful to show real examples of beginners/intermediate surfers doing something wrong. I'm definitely popping up too late. Thanks!
Nice, one of the more detailed videos on UA-cam with MULTIPLE examples to give us a good idea of good and bad takeoffs compared to other good UA-camrs that only give one or two examples.
Pleasure. Glad it was helpful! That’s so cool. That’s the first place I ever surfed too!! I was a very young kid when my dad pushed myself and my brother into waves there!
Yes. My dad also pushed me into some small beachbreak waves at Bonza Bay beach when we picniced there on weekends😀 But he didn’t like it….said it was too close to the Nahoon sharks😀 Fond memories of EL….now surf a crappy South Carolina beachbreak in USA😂
@@johanmaritz9849 that’s classic! Some good waves at Bonza…and some sharks too! Hope you at least enjoy the South Carolina beach break. I have surfed there twice and had some fun waves.
I just tried these tips this morning & they worked great! As a beginner surfer, this is a real pearl of knowledge, because I had being popping up blindly until now w/ little success or disastrous results. Thanks again & keep up the good work!
Hii!!! I’m brasilian and came here because of Chicco who named Chicco and lived at Artico for 11 years 😝😝 Great things you people are doing!!! Congrats!!! I
Simple and great explanation...I was trying to help a friend get this concept and it was so much better to show him your video before our last session.
Thanks for the feedback Julien. I will keep making them similar to this and I’m starting to make better and more in depth tutorials which I’ll sell on my website. Have a good day.
@@shannonainsliesurf thanks dude, im in Portugal getting a lot more surfing done than i was in UK and its looking good again from tomorrow! Also my mum is South African and i want to come down to cape town and try there sometime as well. 👌
This was very helpful. I’m a newbie, been standing up way WAY late, wondering why I have no speed and a lot of times I’ve been nose diving. Feeling the tail lift and nose going down is the best description I’ve found on when to stand up. Heading to the beach in a couple of days so I’ll be practicing. Thanks so much for this video.
Hi Shannon, thanks a lot for this brilliant explanation about the right timing, actually as a freshly baked intermediate surfer I’m exactly struggling with this. Today I’ve got another surf lesson and will keep in mind to observe the wave very accurate.
Thanks coach, great examples to compare. As a low intermediate I notice timing is important as is how snappy the pop up is executed. Slow pop means lots of room for error. Early wave entry gives more time too. Arching the back getting picked up by the waves is a major factor I believe. I still ride a 72 liter 8'4 board. Makes room for the front foot too. Good arching and leaning posture prolly also will help angling the board a bit too in quickly jacking up waves. But ideal are not to small and slow waves in glassy circumstances. They suit best for training because the board has space to drop a bit down giving room and going down the line is possible. Angling is now my major goal. I still tend to over angle and not tilt the board slightly, so missing waves. I should try tilting the board a bit on rail in stead of angling. The angling will be the result of the tilting?
Thanks. And good to hear some of your thoughts. The volume of board you’re riding should allow for early entry into the wave. An angle take off is good but just make sure you paddle at a 90 degree angle first and only the last few strokes you should start leaning and looking in the direction you’ll go. One of my tutorials speaks about an angle take off. Check it out and I hope it helps 😊
Thanks for your feedback. Angle takes are good and important to do. Low level surfers shouldn’t try an angle take off too early though coz they will struggle, but I do encourage angle take offs. It’s more about timing 😊
This is really good. Thank you. Question: can you do a video explaining volume of boards and how it helps or doesn’t help? Thanks again fir a great tutorial.
@@shannonainsliesurf great video - thanks for making it - I served for years as a teenager and the pop-up seemed so easy and natural. Some 25 years later, I have come to discover that surfing is not like riding a bike. I have had to start completely over….and hese videos really help!
good video. As I get better, i see these points. It would be useful for you draw a line where these surfers should go. Like there are lines you should take like angle by last few strokes. As a good surfer says, slower and lower. I think you could use these videos and draw some blue lines for better timing.
Dette er veldig bra! Tok meg flere år å lære dette, kunne nok spart meg for en god del timer med et par økter med video coaching 🤣👍 6:26 var nøkkelen for meg. Se bak. Og gjerne ligg perfekt å la bølga gå forbi deg for å se hvordan plasseringen din er og hvor du bør ligge. Warrior innstinktet må ikke komme foran visdom 🤣🏄♂️🤩
As intermediate what i feel difficult is the moment to change the sight direction...i guess cause i look first to the beach shore but i should be quicker to look to the wall (left or right)...cause if the wave is stronger and quicker then I fall down to my nose direction. When i see you I notice you look straight just a second and then the sight goes to the wall. Thank you
That’s a good point. If it’s steep then just look straight ahead of the nose of the board (not the beach). And as you get better then looking down the line on the wave gets easier. You’ll also need to learn to control the weight distribution during the angle take off 🙌
Really helpful. I am way too late. The nose starts dropping, and I freeze for an instant. It's psychological. Any tips on how to break this mental bad habit?
The best is to practice trying to stand up rather too early than too late. And be willing to wipe out, that’s a risk we all take. And try do some visualization of yourself getting it right. That will help break bad neural pathways and start creating new ones 🙌
So in one of the clips (4:46) the surfer needs another 2 more strokes to fully catch the wave before popping up. This is where I'm in a bit of a pickle, because every time I've done the extra paddles to get into the wave I end up going down the wave and into the flats where it's now way too late to get up. Maybe my popup is too slow, but the hardest part is to popup and get a bottom turn to gain some speed w/o slowing down in the flats.
Yes for sure. Short board you need to take off in a slightly steeper part of the wave closer to the peak and on a longboard/ soft board you can catch the waves sooner and not in a steep section or too close to the peak. So on a longboard you can stand a little slower and later. Shortboard a bit quicker and earlier.
@@shannonainsliesurf right, I agree. I was just thinking if it is steep but I am already positioned there I think I will still paddle, while paddle closer to the tip side if I am on the shoulder-ish side where it already breaks so I can take white wash and bottom turn instead of staying there to nose dive or let the wave go. But if I am already positioned at the tip, then better just let go and wait for the next one to come
Learn to bodysurf and spend lots of time doing it. Do it just as much if not more than board surfing for at least 6 months and watch your popup/take off timing issues magically disappear. Bonus is that you’ll also learn an essential waterman skill in the process
Thanks for the tips, I think most people who want to surf will struggle doing this for 6 months, but I think you have a good point and adding it into their practice and training could help a lot. Thanks
@@shannonainsliesurf Yes it's unfortunately true that most people who want to learn to surfboard will likely not have the apetite to do something like bodysurfing regularly. Which is a shame because having swimming and bodysurfing skills used to be a hard requirement for surfing back in the day before leashes. I realize that it does require dedication and effort, and it's one of those activities that has perhaps a less exciting learning curve initially until you really start catching waves and going down the line... after that though (at least for me), it provides just as much, if not more excitement in terms of pure adrenaline/sensation. I know for myself personally, my takeoffs have become exponentially easier since I've stared bodysurfing regularly as part of my routine. It forces you to really understand wave mechanics, positioning, and timing in a way that you simply can't develop as quickly as a newbie on a board exclusively. The amount of depth, joy and progression it has brought to my overall surfing experience is difficult to quantify and it has made me appreciate all forms surfing, and to not view the act of standing up as the pinnacle of wave riding. I think it's unfortunate that people focus so much on stand up exclusivly since I feel like a lot of that focus has more to do with ego than anything (another bennefit of bodysurfing, it forces you to re-evaluate your motives since almost no one out there will notice you doing it). Anyway I like your content, keep it up!
@@relaxingsounds5469 good point! I think most people will find surfing much better and more fun and if they don’t have a lot of time on their hands they wont bother doing anything else. I am the same, although I have spend a lot of time doing many things when I was younger, bodysurfing too. But I only surf now because it is a lot more fun for me and I don’t have time to do other things besides doing what I love most. But it is very good and cool that you do it and see the importance of it. Keep it up!
When you feel the tail going up and the nose going down at that precise moment you pop up
Not before and not after
Thank you!!!!🎉🎉🎉watched 75 thousand videos and all I hear is blah blah blah finally an answer!!!❤
Thanks for your feedback Nancy. Glad this was helpful!
@@shannonainsliesurf Same. I've never heard this before and usually wait until the board is planing and I end up body surfing the wave especially on shore breaks.
@ good, well I hope this was helpful to you.
Getting ready to go out. As a 74 yr old intermediate, this reinforces what I need to do to keep that speed and elevate my experience. Thank you
Good to know. Thanks for the feedback and hope to see you in the water one day 🙌
My first time going out right now, that's what brought me here!
I think the timing is effected by the kind of board and the kind of waves. Gradual predictable waves give you more time and hence it's easier to get the timing right.
Longer boards have a longer paddle in, maybe 3 or 5 strokes while shorter boards 1 to 3 strokes.
Tail lifts and nose dives…I just need these words to take on mind when I’m on my board to take an unbroken wave! Thank you very much. This video was 100 more helpful than the others found on YT.
Thanks for the feedback Davide. Glad it was helpful and good luck with your next surfs. Hope it works out for you! 🙌
As a beginner surfer this is one of the best videos I've come across that describes perfectly what to feel for.
Glad it was helpful!
One of the most helpful pop up videos I've seen. Thanks for the help.
Thanks for the feedback
This is great! There're a lot of surf coaching youtube channels with crazy productions or guys explaining with a whiteboard, but I find it really helpful to show real examples of beginners/intermediate surfers doing something wrong. I'm definitely popping up too late. Thanks!
He hanks for the feedback. Hope you score some good waves soon
exactly, I took a lesson and talked to people but I don't they really explained that I need pop up right when I feel the wave
Great teaching aid. Very clear and very helpful. The videos showing takeoffs & popups were SUPER helpful.
@@PaulineCatterson thanks, I am glad you liked it! Have a good day.
One of the best, clearest and superbly explained clip on popping up
Thanks Ben. Hope you find that it works for you 🙌
That was by far,some of the best advice I have gotten in my surf progression. Thank you 🙃
Great to hear!
thank you - very helpful. good to see the mistakes clearly. i pop up to early.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice, one of the more detailed videos on UA-cam with MULTIPLE examples to give us a good idea of good and bad takeoffs compared to other good UA-camrs that only give one or two examples.
@@1stcomment700 glad you liked it and found it helpful!
I have been bodyboarding for 34 years, and I'm just now getting into surfing. Thank you for the awesome tips!
Pleasure Anna. Glad you’re getting into surfing. Hope it goes well 😊🙌
I really learned a lot of subtleties with this ! Thanks for great content!
Good to know. Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for this! Getting back into surfing at 65 after years out.
First learned at little beach called Orient Beach in East London😀
Pleasure. Glad it was helpful! That’s so cool. That’s the first place I ever surfed too!! I was a very young kid when my dad pushed myself and my brother into waves there!
Cool!!! I never knew that is where you started. We lived right by Orient…I was in Beach Primary School😀
@@johanmaritz9849 very cooll. Maybe if the harbor wall wasn’t there we would get more waves there.
Yes. My dad also pushed me into some small beachbreak waves at Bonza Bay beach when we picniced there on weekends😀 But he didn’t like it….said it was too close to the Nahoon sharks😀
Fond memories of EL….now surf a crappy South Carolina beachbreak in USA😂
@@johanmaritz9849 that’s classic! Some good waves at Bonza…and some sharks too! Hope you at least enjoy the South Carolina beach break. I have surfed there twice and had some fun waves.
I just tried these tips this morning & they worked great! As a beginner surfer, this is a real pearl of knowledge, because I had being popping up blindly until now w/ little success or disastrous results. Thanks again & keep up the good work!
Thanks for the feedback Lloyd. Glad it helped you out! 🙌
THIS is what I needed!!! Thank you!! Tail up, nose going down
Glad it helps 🙌 Good luck 👍
This video was incredibly helpful. Was able to identify my issue from watching this. Thx for the great instruction
Very good to know 🙌 glad it was helpful!
Hii!!! I’m brasilian and came here because of Chicco who named Chicco and lived at Artico for 11 years 😝😝
Great things you people are doing!!! Congrats!!! I
Hey. Oh Chicco! He is such a nice guy. You must have watched his new video with our interview. Do you surf?
probably the most helpful video i've seen so far 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Simple and great explanation...I was trying to help a friend get this concept and it was so much better to show him your video before our last session.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I’m glad this tutorial was helpful. Take care.
This one will really helps me on understanding of the feel of catching the wave! Thx
Pleasure! Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Shannon, super informative, love the videos showing the pit falls and how to correct them .
Thanks for your feedback 😊
Wow, thank you so much, that was very clear!
Pleasure. 😊🙌
Nailed my first real drop in because of this video!
So good to hear 🙌 congrats 🎊 Hope you keep on progressing.
About to head to Costa Rica and this was a nice refresher. Thanks for the sage advice.
Thanks Cam. Enjoy Costa Rica and hope you get some good waves 🙌
Excellent explanation of the basics!!!
Good to know. Thanks for the feedback Johnny 🙌
Great coaching, thank you!
Thanks for the feedback 🙌
Shanon is awesome. Great tips
@@keithjohnson4946 thanks. Glad you liked it and I hope it was helpful!
Brilliant Video Shannon, nice and simple and very clear with the visuals. Thanks for the great content Bru, looking forward to more epic vid’s👌
Thanks for the feedback bud 🙌😊
Dude, what an excellent and simple video.
Thank you 😊
These are great. Don‘t change anything about your videos. I would be very happy to pay for more like these
Thanks for the feedback Julien. I will keep making them similar to this and I’m starting to make better and more in depth tutorials which I’ll sell on my website. Have a good day.
Great explanations, thanks!
Thanks 🙏
Great vid man - and the steez is unreallll
Haha thanks Ruben 🙌
Really well explained! Been watching popup videos and sometimes they seem to overly dissect things but you had a good balance..👌🤘
Thanks Luke. Hope it works out for you 🙌
@@shannonainsliesurf thanks dude, im in Portugal getting a lot more surfing done than i was in UK and its looking good again from tomorrow! Also my mum is South African and i want to come down to cape town and try there sometime as well. 👌
superb tips! Really helpful
Good to know!
This was very helpful. I’m a newbie, been standing up way WAY late, wondering why I have no speed and a lot of times I’ve been nose diving. Feeling the tail lift and nose going down is the best description I’ve found on when to stand up. Heading to the beach in a couple of days so I’ll be practicing. Thanks so much for this video.
Thanks for the feedback. Keep practicing and all the best!
excellent info I haven't heard articulated quite like that!
Good to know. Thanks for the feedback 🙌
@@shannonainsliesurf surfing, cold exposure (wim Hofing) and no sharks.. you've got it all covered there.. thanks again for some great insights!
Hi Shannon, thanks a lot for this brilliant explanation about the right timing, actually as a freshly baked intermediate surfer I’m exactly struggling with this. Today I’ve got another surf lesson and will keep in mind to observe the wave very accurate.
Thanks for the feedback and good luck :)
Explanation is just amazing!!
Thanks for the feedback 😊
Great film mate thanks
Glad you liked it. Thanks 😊
Very much needed tutorial!! thank you!
Glad you liked it Sonia. Thanks for the feedback! Take care.
Thanks coach, great examples to compare. As a low intermediate I notice timing is important as is how snappy the pop up is executed. Slow pop means lots of room for error. Early wave entry gives more time too. Arching the back getting picked up by the waves is a major factor I believe. I still ride a 72 liter 8'4 board. Makes room for the front foot too. Good arching and leaning posture prolly also will help angling the board a bit too in quickly jacking up waves. But ideal are not to small and slow waves in glassy circumstances. They suit best for training because the board has space to drop a bit down giving room and going down the line is possible. Angling is now my major goal. I still tend to over angle and not tilt the board slightly, so missing waves. I should try tilting the board a bit on rail in stead of angling. The angling will be the result of the tilting?
Thanks. And good to hear some of your thoughts. The volume of board you’re riding should allow for early entry into the wave. An angle take off is good but just make sure you paddle at a 90 degree angle first and only the last few strokes you should start leaning and looking in the direction you’ll go. One of my tutorials speaks about an angle take off. Check it out and I hope it helps 😊
That's a good way to explain it, great insight there! Keep up the work
Good to know. Thanks 😊
Great explanations, very usefull for beginneres/intermediate surfers like me ;)
Thanks for the feedback julien. Good luck with the surfing.
Very useful. Thanks for the tips.
Thanks for the feedback.
Great video. Thanks Shannon!
Pleasure
This was perfect, thanks!
It’s a pleasure 😊
These were tips really useful. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
incredibly helpful thank you
Good to know. Thanks Tyler 🙏
Thanks a lot.. Very useful for me👍👍👍🙏🤙
Thanks for the feedback Sim. Have a good day.
🤙👍From France! 👏
I feel the examples are more than late take off they have an "angle of take off" problem. Or both?
Thanks for your feedback. Angle takes are good and important to do. Low level surfers shouldn’t try an angle take off too early though coz they will struggle, but I do encourage angle take offs. It’s more about timing 😊
This sounds like great advice, hopefully this helps it click!!! I'm trying!!
Good to know. Hope it helps you Kevin.
Thanks, very good video
Pleasure. Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for this, Shannon. Love the content
You're so welcome!
This was a huge help.
Thanks for the feedback Paul 🙌
Super helpful video! I appreciate you showing us what the wrong version looks like too 👍👍 so I know what to avoid
Thanks for the feedback 🙌😊
Very good explanation 👏
Thanks charly.
Thanks bro! That’s video it’s perfect really understand the timing! It works!!
Good to know. 😊🙌
amazing tip dude, you are awesome
Thanks for the feedback bro
Terrific, thanks for the insights!
Glad it was helpful!
Really good
Glad you liked it
Very helpful 🤙🏻
Good to know 😊
So healful!
I am glad it is healful, or helpful!
Thank you
Pleasure 😊
This is really good. Thank you. Question: can you do a video explaining volume of boards and how it helps or doesn’t help?
Thanks again fir a great tutorial.
Thanks Karl. Yes I can make a video on that. Looking forward to a surf with you in stavanger
thank you!
Pleasure 😊
Another great video. Thanks.
Thanks brother. Looking forward to a trip to Indonesia 🇮🇩
nice one thank you, this was so helpful :-)
It’s a pleasure 🙌
Good video
Glad you enjoyed
great video, maybe make more surf videos? what is that spot
@@IsaiahNavarro-l7u Thanks. I should make more surf videos? You mean tutorials or what?
thanks for this.
Pleasure 🙌
Thanks a lot Mate. 👊🏾
pleasure
Thanks from🇨🇱🤘🏽
Pleasure 😊
Is that a shark at 4:47 about 50 yards deeper than the surfer?
No there were a bunch of dolphins out there while I was filming and coaching that session 😊
@@shannonainsliesurf great video - thanks for making it - I served for years as a teenager and the pop-up seemed so easy and natural. Some 25 years later, I have come to discover that surfing is not like riding a bike. I have had to start completely over….and hese videos really help!
*surfed
@@Danoelm glad the videos help. Hope you get more time to surf 🙌
good video. As I get better, i see these points. It would be useful for you draw a line where these surfers should go. Like there are lines you should take like angle by last few strokes. As a good surfer says, slower and lower. I think you could use these videos and draw some blue lines for better timing.
Thank you. That’s a good idea 🙌😊
Nice one!
@@FredBishopMusic thanks. Hope you find it helpful!
Great video! 👍
Thanks 😊
Dette er veldig bra! Tok meg flere år å lære dette, kunne nok spart meg for en god del timer med et par økter med video coaching 🤣👍 6:26 var nøkkelen for meg. Se bak. Og gjerne ligg perfekt å la bølga gå forbi deg for å se hvordan plasseringen din er og hvor du bør ligge. Warrior innstinktet må ikke komme foran visdom 🤣🏄♂️🤩
Takk for tilbakemeldingen. Surfe du på Jæren?
@@shannonainsliesurf ja 🙌
very good video
Thanks for the feedback
Really helpful.
Now I know why I keep nosediving.
Thanks. Good luck 🙌
As intermediate what i feel difficult is the moment to change the sight direction...i guess cause i look first to the beach shore but i should be quicker to look to the wall (left or right)...cause if the wave is stronger and quicker then I fall down to my nose direction. When i see you I notice you look straight just a second and then the sight goes to the wall. Thank you
That’s a good point. If it’s steep then just look straight ahead of the nose of the board (not the beach). And as you get better then looking down the line on the wave gets easier. You’ll also need to learn to control the weight distribution during the angle take off 🙌
@@shannonainsliesurf
Thank you Shannon. I ll keep practicing. Greetings from North Spain.
Thank you.
😊
Ive been popping up way too late! Cheers!
@@kyrknissen9895 thanks for sharing. Good luck with trying to pop up earlier. You will get it.
Really helpful. I am way too late. The nose starts dropping, and I freeze for an instant. It's psychological. Any tips on how to break this mental bad habit?
The best is to practice trying to stand up rather too early than too late. And be willing to wipe out, that’s a risk we all take. And try do some visualization of yourself getting it right. That will help break bad neural pathways and start creating new ones 🙌
So in one of the clips (4:46) the surfer needs another 2 more strokes to fully catch the wave before popping up. This is where I'm in a bit of a pickle, because every time I've done the extra paddles to get into the wave I end up going down the wave and into the flats where it's now way too late to get up. Maybe my popup is too slow, but the hardest part is to popup and get a bottom turn to gain some speed w/o slowing down in the flats.
That’s for the comment. It could be that you’re taking too long to get to your feet. Tag me in a video if you have and I’ll have a look for you.
Dolphins in the back!
😊
nice
Thanks banana 🍌
ASAP
Haha yes that’s true! 😅🙌
Would you have different advice for when to stand up when riding a shortboard vs longboard vs foamie?
Yes for sure. Short board you need to take off in a slightly steeper part of the wave closer to the peak and on a longboard/ soft board you can catch the waves sooner and not in a steep section or too close to the peak. So on a longboard you can stand a little slower and later. Shortboard a bit quicker and earlier.
4:35 wait a sec, is there a dolphin in the background?!
@@schtefel yes! Jbay has a lot of dolphins…
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks Noah
shark?! 4:38
Dolphins 😊😊
Man I saw this, awesome !
4:46 shark in the water 😅
Haha no it’s a dolphin 🐬😅
actually catching waves slightly after it breaks is perfectly okay, just arch back and turn already before popping up then all good
Just try not get to the bottom
Yes this will work if the wave crumbles but it won’t work on a steeper wave 😊
@@shannonainsliesurf right, I agree. I was just thinking if it is steep but I am already positioned there I think I will still paddle, while paddle closer to the tip side if I am on the shoulder-ish side where it already breaks so I can take white wash and bottom turn instead of staying there to nose dive or let the wave go. But if I am already positioned at the tip, then better just let go and wait for the next one to come
@@Changwen666 yes for sure 🙌 Thanks for the feedback. Hope you are scoring some good waves 🌊😊
@@shannonainsliesurf haha surfing in Sri Lanka tmrw, it’s my first trip Sri Lanka, am quite excited!
Oh my... Minute 4.45 shark or dolphin?
Haha 😂 some dolphins swam by. But would have been bad if it was a shark 😅
when i pop up the wave mostly goes past me or ill flip over when im not that far forward and looking far infront how can i fix it?
Does it go past you while you’re popping up or while you’re already standing up on your feet?
Learn to bodysurf and spend lots of time doing it. Do it just as much if not more than board surfing for at least 6 months and watch your popup/take off timing issues magically disappear. Bonus is that you’ll also learn an essential waterman skill in the process
Thanks for the tips, I think most people who want to surf will struggle doing this for 6 months, but I think you have a good point and adding it into their practice and training could help a lot. Thanks
@@shannonainsliesurf Yes it's unfortunately true that most people who want to learn to surfboard will likely not have the apetite to do something like bodysurfing regularly. Which is a shame because having swimming and bodysurfing skills used to be a hard requirement for surfing back in the day before leashes. I realize that it does require dedication and effort, and it's one of those activities that has perhaps a less exciting learning curve initially until you really start catching waves and going down the line... after that though (at least for me), it provides just as much, if not more excitement in terms of pure adrenaline/sensation.
I know for myself personally, my takeoffs have become exponentially easier since I've stared bodysurfing regularly as part of my routine. It forces you to really understand wave mechanics, positioning, and timing in a way that you simply can't develop as quickly as a newbie on a board exclusively. The amount of depth, joy and progression it has brought to my overall surfing experience is difficult to quantify and it has made me appreciate all forms surfing, and to not view the act of standing up as the pinnacle of wave riding.
I think it's unfortunate that people focus so much on stand up exclusivly since I feel like a lot of that focus has more to do with ego than anything (another bennefit of bodysurfing, it forces you to re-evaluate your motives since almost no one out there will notice you doing it).
Anyway I like your content, keep it up!
@@relaxingsounds5469 good point! I think most people will find surfing much better and more fun and if they don’t have a lot of time on their hands they wont bother doing anything else. I am the same, although I have spend a lot of time doing many things when I was younger, bodysurfing too. But I only surf now because it is a lot more fun for me and I don’t have time to do other things besides doing what I love most. But it is very good and cool that you do it and see the importance of it. Keep it up!
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🙌🙌😊
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wave must not break on top of you LOL
Correct 😅