How the heck to your get your foot on the bosu ball. I wll keep working on it but super hard.
How the heck to your get your foot on the bosu ball. I wll keep working on it but super hard.
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
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
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
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.
Can someone please tell me. When I create a post how do I know which community it is going to? Sorry I'm not very social media savvy.
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, 326º; 0.6ft, 7s, NE, 44º; 3.9ft, 7s, E, 94º
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
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?
Possible future OMBE Surf training in America?!?
Just found out Myrtle Beach, South Carolina will be building a wave park by 2026, if I recall the news story correctly. It will be less than 5 miles from my house. We also have a small bowl to skate at the local skate park.
Clayton, if you ever wanna expand some surf training to the US.... and this park ever ACTUALLY gets built. I would LOVE to be the first student to sign up. Brah...you could even crash in my spare room if need be and if you can deal with my crazy kids yelling all day.
Myrtle beach doesn't typically get good ocean waves outside a few during the hurricane months (Aug-Nov). But a surf park would make that a non-issue. And I've already been preaching the OMBE method at the local skatepark and bowl to some of the local boys.
Think about it bro..... you got plenty of time to work out the details.
Let me know....LOL