Hi team

I've been an OMBE/Amanzi/Clay's Elanora Skateramp member for some time now and love what I see this community do to help other surfers become better versions of themselves

The youtube links below are the first time I've ever seen footage of myself and it is... very humbling! I'd really appreciate if you guys can identify a few key points for me to work on so I can tie it in to the specific trainings that OMBE offers. I really struggle with frontside top top turning, always feeling like I am going to fall backwards? I feel like I get locked up trying to look behind me... I also might be overdoing the extension on the cardboard slide 😂

https://youtu.be/NU0zSw4XZag

https://youtu.be/QWr-zOkSogI

Jeremy Dean  I'm just wondering if the Local Groups (eg UK Surfers, North Devon Surfers etc) are going to be carried over to here?

I connect to the OMBE platform(s) through the desktop web interface. When on the new train.ombe.co/community platform I see only the ombe-community and ombe-updates areas but nothing explicitly saying "insider".

I believe that I'm still an  Insider so should I be seeing more content on the new platform?  🤔

Sometimes it's the simplest or smallest things...

I've been trying to get my shortboard walk up working, ie pushing up onto my knees, rather than my toes for when I'm using a smaller board.

When I'm at home, I can practice it on the carpet, no problems, it works fine, but today I, again, couldn't get it to work.

Because of the conditions (small, a bit messy) I was using my 7'6 board which is about the shortest I can do the "toes" method, but trying to avoid doing that.

Except, every time I walked up, I was finding I still not using my knees and I couldn't figure out why, even though, before I went out, I'd practiced on the beach and it had been fine.

So eventually I rode a wave back in, put the board on the beach and tried again, seeing if I could figure out what I was doing differently.

And suddenly it clicked!

When I was on the waves, my hands were coming a bit further forward on the board so they were under my shoulders, but when I was practicing on the beach, they were down by my lower ribs!

So I went back out again and, ok, it wasn't perfect, but I was definitely using my knee/ shin much more 👍

I'll have to practice more to get it drilled it, but it's amazing how much a few inches difference in hand placement can change things 🙂

Hey there. I'm headed to Australia for the month of march. I'll be surfing byron bay, perth, and margaret river areas. Will i need to bring a wetsuit? if so what thickness would you recommend?

Cheers! 

Hello, is there supposed to be an email sent so I can send in my video of my surfing for analysis in the group meeting every month? Am I missing something? thanks in advance.