I am sidelined for a bit with a broken toe (non-surfing injury), so I've been taking some video of my friend surfing using my phone.

Really has reinforced how the body automatically wants to follow the eyes.  Every single time I looked up to actually see him in the water rather than through the phone screen, the phone tilted up and I was filming the sky.

Really hoping my board will follow my gaze the same way when I look back at the foam on a cutback once I am back in the water!

Going to wait till my follow up dr appt. before I try surfing, but anyone have experience with getting back to surfing after recovering from a broken toe?  Assuming it won't make much difference as long as I don't rush back into it before it fully heals.

Hey OMBE heads,

Ive stiched two videos together here on intermediate lefts at URBNSURF Sydney

The first clip I thought looked nice and the second was less nice.

Trying to figure out why I couldnt get any speed/flow going on the second and what i should do to keep looking nice.

Thanks 🙌

Any constructive feedback would be more than welcome and gratefully received!

The takeoff wasn’t as smooth as it could’ve been (back foot was scrabbling around) and there was a speed wobble on the second bottom turn from the wave chop…. I feel my hips and shoulders were too parallel and not perpendicular to the wave

Hello everyone! Hope you’re all doing well.

Has anyone had difficulty getting a reply to emails sent to OMBE recently? I first emailed them in late April with a few questions, then followed up again in mid-June, but I still haven’t received a response.

Did you contact them via hi@ombe.co or help@ombe.co, or did you use a different email address?

Thanks in advance for any advice, and wishing you all some great waves! 🤞👌🌊

Hey all!

Living a long way from the sea, I've been working on some surf skating in the bowl and trying to apply the techniques in the content here.

So, I have a question - lot of the drills around turning seem to be demonstrated in the corners of bowls / the 'sphere bowl' you guys have, rather than on the straight wall. My intuition is that the bowl corner provides quite a bit of extra "hold" and centripetal force because you're riding through curvature, whereas a straight wall seems like it would require you to generate and control the turn much more yourself.

From a surfing perspective, how well does practising in bowl corners / concave ramps actually translate compared with practising on the straight sections?To me, a straight wall almost feels closer to a typical wave face. On the other hand, I appreciate that a wave is moving forward and has its own dynamics, so perhaps that's providing some of the support that the bowl corner provides on concrete.

Is there a coaching reason OMBE tends to demonstrate these turns in bowl corners? Is the goal simply to teach the underlying body mechanics (compression, extension, rotation, timing, etc.), with the exact terrain being less important, or is there something about the bowl corner that actually makes it a better analogue for a wave than I'm appreciating? I'd love to understand the thinking behind it.

TL;DR: If my goal is to improve my surfing rather than my bowl riding, am I better off practising these drills on the long straight wall at my local skatepark, or should I be trying to replicate the OMBE approach by practising them in concave sections?

I consume a lot of youtube content, looking for things that can help me improve. I’d put myself in the adult beginner category (I can catch my own waves and am angling my takeoffs and trimming down the line). I’d like to start working towards moving up and down on the wave and pumping (extending/compressing) to maintain speed, turning etc. My question today is - how do you read the wave while riding it? I hear so many things across channels and creators get pointed out to look for? But how do you do that without looking back at the wave? Does it all come down to wave count, experience and feel? My understanding is I’m supposed to be head up, looking down the line where I want to go. TIA

JD

Hey OMBE heads

I got a new board (black box 2) and this my first set of footage on it. is smaller than my other shortie so was interesting to ride, feels like it can turn tighter for sure.

What do you think of the surfing? Any tips to improve here?

I like the first bottom and top turn and then it feels flat.

Wishing a happy birthday to Clayton Nienaber 🤙