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Exciting Changes Ahead! ๐ŸŒŠWeโ€™ve restructured our footage review process to make it more beneficial for everyone. While live sessions will be on pause as we adapt to new dynamics with our two candidates, weโ€™re thrilled to announce a fresh approach: your submissions will now be reviewed and shared here in the community!Hereโ€™s why weโ€™re embracing this new method:โœ”๏ธMore Engagement: Posting reviews here encourages interaction and brings our quieter members into the conversation. Lives were limiting, as only those free at the time could participate.โœ”๏ธFlexibility for Clay: With a packed schedule of retreats next year, this setup allows Clay to review submissions remotely during his downtimeโ€”ensuring faster and more consistent feedback.โœ”๏ธEasier Access: Every review and takeaway will be visible to everyone, making it simpler to learn and improve without sifting through past live sessions.โœ”๏ธFocused Feedback: This organized system will help you concentrate on specific areas to improve.๐Ÿ”” A few reminders: โ€ข Submit one video at a time to give everyone a fair chance for feedback. โ€ข Avoid submitting distant or surf-cam footageโ€”Clay needs clear visuals to provide effective, actionable advice.We canโ€™t thank you enough for your support, patience, and understanding as we work through these changes together. Your willingness to adapt and grow with us means the world, and weโ€™re so appreciative of this amazing community. ๐Ÿ™P.S. Iโ€™ve added a Google sheet in the comments for tracking your submissions. If youโ€™d like your older footage skipped, simply select โ€œYโ€ in column F. This will indicate youโ€™re uploading newer training footage. If you select โ€œN,โ€ Clay will proceed with reviewing your current submission. Let us know if you have any questions!
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March 06
00:22

Hi wanna get ur advice, this wave is pushed into by my local coach.

I should be kissing my knee more?

How exactly is the trimming timing? My shoulder fixed facing down the line? I look and point to the left to go up gain speed then look and point to the right to go go down, but down stay down too long else will be hit by the whitewater like me?

  in  ๐Ÿ„ ombe-community
March 03

Clayton Nienaber saw a YouTube video on someone else's channel, Jade, where she comes out to Australia for your coaching.

Just wanted to say it was enjoyable watching it from the "person needing the coaching" perspective. Telling her she was un-coachable- after her 1st session made me LOL cause it's exactly what I would expect you to say based on all the OMBE/Surf lab stuff I've watched.

I think it's absolutely brilliant if you could get more people to do this. Ie people with a youtube channel or social media following that can come out and get coached by you. And have them post it for everyone to see.

That is all. Keep up the great work.

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February 25
00:05

After couple weeks surfing, finally get some videos, any suggestions for what i should improve at the moment? Thanks a lot!

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February 21
โ€ข Edited (Feb 21, 2026)

Hello! Iโ€™d like to introduce myself to the OMBE community. My name is Sarah. I live/surf in Newfoundland, Canada. I started my surfing journey when I turned 40 a few years ago. I love the ocean and being in it, on it, and around it. Iโ€™d say Iโ€™m not exactly a beginner, but definitely not intermediate yet. I do surf here when I can but Iโ€™d say the majority of my surfing improves while I travel. I joined OMBE just yesterday and I do feel like Iโ€™m probably in the right place! Iโ€™m looking forward to learning, getting to know people, maybe some in person meet ups, and catching waves!!! Hope everyone is having a great day!

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February 18
00:16

Posting a clip from last April and one from today. Same spot, same board, and very similar rides. Not my best turn today, but was curious to compare it to the one from April because the lines and turn were so similar.

I feel like I at least got slightly more on rail on the turn from today versus last April. Still tend to trim along the bottom of the wave rather than pumping top to bottom, but honestly still feels fun.

One thing that happens a lot is my hands tend to go over my head as I am dropping back down the wave. Not sure what is causing that.

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February 17
00:07

I have two spots available for a trip to Telos in June for 10 days. Itโ€™s capped to 6 surfers only and there is a OMBE bowl on site. This is going to be an epic adventure. Message me if youโ€™re interested.

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February 16

Just wondering will tutorial about floater be made in the program? Seems like floater is an important skill for intermediate or early advance to link up and ride a longer section?

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February 15

East Wittering has been looking fun recently. You been in Graham Marsden ?

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bo67u8D9u/

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February 12

I am a relative beginner at surfing but have been making slow steady progress over the last 6 months.

Bosu training has been really useful, and I am thinking of adding surf skating to it.ย 

I want a beginner set-up, as context I am 6ft1 and about 80kg, used to skate a bit when I was younger but it's now 30 years in the past so I'm basically starting from scratch. I am in the UK.

Would a board as in the link here be suitable for me?

https://www.arborcollective.co.uk/products/arbor-carver-ryan-lovelace-shaper-surfskate

What features should I look for / avoid as a beginner? ย I saw a general article on this, but would really appreciate any specific advice.

Thanks!

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February 12
00:43

Shitty run of surf so am trying out some park turns.

2nd attempt so looking to what I feel I need to work on. Iโ€™m wondering if my tailing arm needs to wrap around at the top more so Iโ€™m opening my shoulders on re-entry? Iโ€™ve tried to reduce my arch but man thatโ€™s tight and bail everytime.

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