Hi, I’m new to this community. I have surfed from my late teens but felt very frustrated with the slow improvement I have had over many years with no access to tuition. Most of my friends migrated to enduro and downhill mountain biking but I came across OMBE by meeting an OMBE person at a wave pool. This meeting has lifted my surfing massively. After years of feeling flatlined, I am so excited to surf every day I can again.

I have developed the drill you can see in the video attached for my local skate park that has transformed my surfing from predominantly type 3 style turns into mainly type 4 turns and my whole surfboard quiver has changed to accommodate it. Just to be clear, I have never skate boarded before surf skating. It took some work. The right hand bottom turn also works and I have found this even more transformative for my technique but this app only allows one video to be uploaded.

Has anyone tried this type of Surfskate drill training? Is there any improvement on it I can try? Is this taught?

In particular I find that balancing the bottom turn completely simulates the struggle to balance the rail on a bottom turn int he water. It allows me to focus on how to distribute weight and arm position and strengthens my body and legs to be able to do it in the water, especially when I’ve been away for a few days or weeks and have deconditioned.

Clayton, do you think this has value in your training pathway?