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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!
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November 26, 2024

Hey guys do you reccomend quads or thrusters for small powerless waves?
A typical day where I surf is usually about knee high and pretty mushy. I ride a 7’2 funboard as a thruster and ive had a lot of trouble making sections. Should I try switching the board over to a quad or just try to pump quicker to get more speed out of the gate?

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November 25, 2024

Plenty to be learned 🤣

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November 23, 2024

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!

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November 23, 2024
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Hey guys does anyone have any tips for not bogging the rail on the bottom turn on smaller days?

For reference im surfing a 7’2 NSP funboard.

I try to drop to the bottom of the wave before starting the bottom turn to get the most speed possible, but anytime I lean into the turn it just sinks my rail and I either lose all my speed or just completely push the board under water.

What am I doing wrong, and are there any drills that I could be doing to work this out?

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November 21, 2024

What is the best training to improve upper body movement?
Looking back at the video I notice that my upper body is not moving at all. Just standing on the board. Anything else I miss? Bending form the hips? Any advise is welcome.

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November 20, 2024

Will video like this work for this platform? Any critique welcomed.

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November 19, 2024

Hi all you OMBE people!

Regarding the shortboard walk-up (off knee instead of toes):

I'm finding I have a lot of difficulty keeping the rear leg's knee between the arms as it moves forward to it's place near the rear of the board. Rather, the knee wants to move to the outside of the arm. Some of this is because my default popup for the past few decades has been the "chicken wing" popup, some of it feels like a restriction in hip flexion, and some of it feels like there's not enough room for the knee- like the knee hits the chest. This is compounded, I think, by my body proportions-- long legs, short torso and arms, relatively speaking. It's particularly difficult if I focus on keeping my head above my hips while looking down the line during the walkup. If I let the knee move the outside of the arm, the shortboard walkup is much easier, but tends to require a bit more focus in avoiding a side-on stance. (Moving to a forward facing stance with a good coffee cup is one of my biggest hurdles.)

I'm not sure how much of a problem this actually is, so I don't know how much effort I put in to correcting the issue. I do know, however, that I really like the way the walkup feels on my longboard, where the extra room afforded by the use of the toes largely eliminates the issues above, and I like how it tends to put me automatically into a more forward stance.

So: I could focus on correcting the knee-outside-of-arms thing, or I could let the knee drift outside the arms and focus instead on a slight pivot of the rear foot to improve my use of the forward facing stance.

What do you guys think?

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November 16, 2024

Typhoon Swell | Siargao Island, Philippines | 10ft 12 Seconds

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November 16, 2024

Big News for the OMBE Community!
We’re sharing some changes happening here at OMBE: Ant is stepping back from co-hosting with Clayton due to a shift in direction and a packed calendar. 
As many of you know, Ant is always on the go, sharing his passion as a public speaker and mindset coach, helping people level up in all things personal development. He’s got some exciting projects on the horizon!
We’ll miss his energy, humour, and insights that have been a huge part of OMBE over the past 4 years. 
Ant’s contributions have been nothing short of epic, and we’re so grateful for the incredible vibe he’s brought to the team as we’ve grown OMBE to where it is today.
If you’d like to keep up with what Ant’s doing, be sure to connect with him on Instagram 👉 @anthonylayespeaks (https://www.instagram.com/anthonylayespeaks) and YouTube 👉 @anthonylaye (https://youtube.com/@anthonylaye) where he’ll be sharing all the good stuff and keeping the inspiration flowing.
We’ll
miss having him here at OMBE, but we’re pumped to see what he accomplishes next!

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