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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!

Michael Van Mil

January 06

00:13

Hello,

Happy new year everyone.

Got some new footage from my last trip. Sad enough I still surf like a wooden plank. 😂 Well I think I doing a pet good for surfing 5 years. However I want to improve more. So please tell me what is ping wrong. Notice already the pop up my leg goes outside. On land I’m not doing that. Maybe because it take more time. Also I notice it last summer so still a bad habit that’s not out of my system yet. I do stand up more , but think it need to compress more. Any advise is welcome. Thank you.

Benjamin Volzer

January 04

00:27

Selamat sore, hello everyone!

I would like to hear your opinion on that :)

Clearly, i have to work on a few things...

But step by step, right?

What do you think i should focus on at the moment?

Maybe the "coffee cup"?

Best regards

Benjanin

Clayton Nienaber

January 03

If a wave is energy moving through water. How much energy do you tap into when you surf? 10%-100%

Scott Wagenblast

December 31, 2025

Anyone have any good surfing related new years resolutions or goals?

I mainly surf the same beach break all the time, but I've never paid much attention to what swell direction, etc. works best for the break. I just look at the wave height and color on surfline and hope for offshore winds and favorable tides during the window when I am free to surf.

I have noticed certain swells are more likely to produce closeouts, but I am thinking my goal might be to better understand the conditions and make note of the different metrics after each session.

Ricardo Nembardo

December 29, 2025

• Edited (Dec 29, 2025)

00:18

Hi all, just started skate surfing and trying things out on a ramp, please let me know what I can do to improve my techniques it would be greatly appreciated 😊🤙🏾 thanks in advance

Clayton Nienaber

December 24, 2025

Merry Christmas Family

Nathan Hainge

December 24, 2025

00:54

I’ve just signed up for a trial 7days.

Before digging further I was just wondering what level I am at and what modules would be best for me to start?!

Soooooo much info and support it’s hard to know where I fit and where to start, or just to go back to basics, reset and undo all my dirty habits.

Steven Segal

December 23, 2025

Feeling good on the compression and extension frontside. However, when I go to do a cutback, rail bogs (spelling?). It's happening pretty frequently. Any thoughts here?

Gergely Szabo

December 22, 2025

Is anyone around Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs keen to do surf training in the OMBE style together?

Jeremy Meredith

December 20, 2025

00:08

I’m working through the 12-week surf smart program and just finished week 4, so I thought I’d post for a 1/3 way through check in.

I feel like it’s a clean pop up, but I’m embarrassingly stiff. Any advice in loosening up or in general? I feel that I could have built speed better as well. Should I have tried to pump up and down the face or taken a higher line from the takeoff?