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Exciting Changes Ahead! 🌊We’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, we’re thrilled to announce a fresh approach: your submissions will now be reviewed and shared here in the community!Here’s why we’re embracing this new method:✔️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.✔️Flexibility for Clay: With a packed schedule of retreats next year, this setup allows Clay to review submissions remotely during his downtime—ensuring faster and more consistent feedback.✔️Easier Access: Every review and takeaway will be visible to everyone, making it simpler to learn and improve without sifting through past live sessions.✔️Focused Feedback: This organized system will help you concentrate on specific areas to improve.🔔 A few reminders: • Submit one video at a time to give everyone a fair chance for feedback. • Avoid submitting distant or surf-cam footage—Clay needs clear visuals to provide effective, actionable advice.We can’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 we’re so appreciative of this amazing community. 🙏P.S. I’ve added a Google sheet in the comments for tracking your submissions. If you’d like your older footage skipped, simply select “Y” in column F. This will indicate you’re uploading newer training footage. If you select “N,” Clay will proceed with reviewing your current submission. Let us know if you have any questions!

Clayton Nienaber

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April 03

Latest YT video is out. It’s all about being uncomfortable and frustration https://youtu.be/oePXhyuwX0Y?si=REpttXI-WOWAZzyA

Mark Hind

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April 01

• Edited (Apr 03, 2025)

Hey just a quick question. I’ve been surfing the advanced wave at the wave pool and I’m fairly comfortable on this setting. Recently I’ve started surfing the advanced plus setting (a bigger more powerful wave). I make the take off on this wave about 50% of the time and I’m trying to work out what I’m doing wrong. The times I mess this up even though I’m angling the board I tend to nose dive. I’ve tried a few things to try and make this better. First I changed board moving to more of a high performance short board with a bit more rocker as I thought maybe the board wasn’t fitting into the wave. Now I’m thinking perhaps I should experiment with the take off angle. Looking at some footage it looks like I drop in to the bottom of the wave and bottom turn. Perhaps I need to angle the board more, stay higher on the wave, pop up, then ride down the face and bottom turn? Anyone have any thoughts?

Philipp Unterreiner

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April 02

Discussion: Bring back the live sessions (?)

Why I think it was better:

- you could be sure your footage gets reviewed at a specific date. getting footage reviewed was my main reason for signing up, but haven’t been reviewed since the change

- it was the only non-asynchronous format to engage with the OMBE team in realtime which was quite exciting

- the conversations between Ant and Clay offered an extra layer of depth to the analysis and it was more engaging to rewatch, learn from everyone else and follow along seeing Clay or Ant “acting out” their ideas

This isn’t a criticism just feedback and was wondering if it’s just me, but I’ve felt a bit unhappy about the change. only way to find out is opening up to the community what’s your thoughts?

(For transparency: I’ve only joined / submitted to one live in the past myself and rewatched many others but signed up recently to do it more regularly but now they’re gone)