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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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May 17, 2024

Following the last Live Chat, I'm working on Pushing the Shopping Trolley to give myself a bit more height and speed on the ramp.

Any helpful comments or suggestions would be welcomed 🙂

https://youtu.be/seqb4RGiJRo

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May 22, 2024
‱ Edited (May 22, 2024)

I wanted to practise adding another video. This is a couple of waves from my second session at the pool. Same board, same wave.
Same day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u35D5L6Bqw

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May 18, 2024
‱ Edited (May 18, 2024)

HEALED, but SO FRUSTRATED!

Picture is not me, but showing it's possible with those lumpy waves!

The good news is that after almost completely stopping surfing from August 2023 to May 2024, I healed my hip and ankle, thanks to great advice from Adam Knox to work with Michael Rintalla. An X-ray and MRI confirmed a bad situation on my right (front) leg hip labrum. With tons of diligent DNS work and some PT, my hip is good. Then, I had ankle surgery to "remove loose bodies" floating around my ankle joint. So, physically, I think I'm better than ever, but...   

I just started surfing a bit, and I'm so frustrated!

My hip is great, but I can't take off. I'm just not committed to catching the waves.

Is there any instructional material here on surfing choppy waves from multiple swells?

Here's the Surfline swells:

Overhead to well overhead, 6-8ft, FAIR

Swells: 5.9ft, 11s, NW, 326Âș; 0.6ft, 7s, NE, 44Âș; 3.9ft, 7s, E, 94Âș

I even tried riding a step up, 7'2, but that was not enough.

I'm completely humiliated!

And here's a video of what it looked like: https://youtu.be/b5r9nYT1JmQ

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May 23, 2024

So here is my question? How the heck to you walk up as Clay says on the bosu ball. My Hip does not reach that high? Will submit media for this. I will keep working at it. I work out a lot long distance runner, yoga, heavy weight train, very healthy diet, horseback rider, and surf, working on flexibility is has had more attention since OMBE. 

May 22, 2024

I think it is ok now. Please let me know if not.
Also while I'm here and if you have watched the video. Can anyone recommend
a beach I should be near if I go to Bali at the end of July. My only request is that it isn't
too polluted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlNs6aecK0I

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May 21, 2024

Sorry forgot to say. Thanks for the help Michiel and Graham.

May 21, 2024

Hi I finally have some video of myself (it's pretty ugly) from my first session at the new Sydney Wave pool.
Graham Marsden has told me once before how to get video onto this page but I can't find that now.
So the video work is produced by Flowstate Zone. I use a desktop Mac and I got the video's into my photo library.
The video's play using Quicktime and I think the file is mp4. Graham told me to turn them into youtube video. Exploring, I
discovered I could share on youtube, only I couldn't because of some incompatibility issue. I don't know if that was incompatible
with Quicktime or Flowstate. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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May 21, 2024

Ok I hope this works. I'm a beginner. This is my first of three sessions at the pool.
I am riding a JS Industries 5"8' 28Ltr Xero on the Cruiser wave. I caught 13 waves, I think there are 7 here.
I had hoped to practise less paddling (achieved but difficult when everyone is yelling at you to paddle, paddle, paddle). I
felt rude for ignoring them. I wanted to practise my oreo squeeze, but my glutes went on holiday, so cobra pose hurt a little without
their support.
My step up was average (clumsy and not as fast as I would like). My posture was poor. My focus ended up being firstly on how to position myself in order
to try to stay on the wave and secondly stay on my board at such a slow speed. In hindsight I should have taken my bigger board, a JSI Sub Xero 5"10' 37Lt .
Anyway, have a laugh, this is officially my starting point on my OMBE journey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlNs6aecK0I

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May 18, 2024

Am I too far forward on my shortboard when I'm paddling for waves?

Hi folks, I got a new board a few weeks back and I've been out on it a few times in waist to shoulder high waves. It paddles nicely and catches waves without issues. The shadow of my wetsuit has started to form on the wax and you can see the chest and the knee imprints. On take off when I get to my feet, my leading foot is roughly where my chest was and my trailing foot is roughly where my knees were (see the arrows in the pic). The board is 5'9 and I am 5'6, so maybe it is not surprising that my trailing foot ends up in front of the traction pad instead of on the traction pad. After take off I generally try to move my trailing foot back and thus widen my stance. If I try to position myself further back the board while paddling it just feels all wrong and makes me reluctant to experiment with a further back position.

What do people think? Do you change paddling position based on the power of the waves or always keep the same position?

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May 12, 2024

what a mess today, but I hear Clay and Anthony's voice and noticing a difference in my mind of calmness, playfulness instead of uptightness. To go out in the worst conditions, because why not, then it might be a chance to calm myself down. That was my focus the last two days. Yes, I sucked at it and that is okay. 

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