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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!

Steven Segal

December 23

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

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

Jeremy Meredith

December 20

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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?

Ry Ryuichi Inoue

December 18

Hello everyone! My name is Ryuichi Inoue - feel free to call me ‘Ry’. I’m originally from Japan, and I’m a surfing coach at Surf Lab.

Here’s a bit more about myself ↓

I’ve been learning and training with Clayton for over 10 years, and I’m currently competing on the WSL while coaching at Surf Lab in Currumbin on the Gold Coast. I love traveling and exploring new places, so competing internationally fits perfectly with my lifestyle. I studied a Bachelor of Business on the Gold Coast, and I’ve now completed my studies. I’m ready and waiting for you at the Surf Lab!

I’ll be sharing more through the Surf Lab app and social media, so I hope you’ll follow along.

Here’s my Instagram too👇

https://www.instagram.com/ryuichiinoue_surf?igsh=MW5nOTk5b3ZmdG85Yg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

I’m available for 3day & 5day workshop, 1:1 coaching and membership surfs and skates. I’m looking forward to seeing you all at Surf Lab 🤙

mark cabra

December 16

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Waco Texas surf Ranch in May 2025. I look very unstable at the top but get my legs under me

mark cabra

December 16

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Embracing the suck. I now realize that I am more of a beginner than an intermediate when I look at my videos. Putting my ego aside I must get to the fundamentals. this video highlight illustrates a few things I race to the bottom run out of speed and I am surfing sideways

Graham Marsden

December 14

• Edited (Dec 14, 2025)

Today at Bracklesham it was a lovely clear winter's day, glassy smooth, running 3 feet at 18 seconds which is incredibly rare, so, despite having done a couple of hours practise at Aldershot dry ski slope yesterday, which left me feeling pretty tired, I had to get out for a surf!

There were a couple of other drawbacks, firstly, because I was working on my skiing fitness, I hadn't been swimming for ages, and, secondly, I was wearing a brand new 5/4/3 wetsuit which was nice and warm, but a real struggle to get into and these made paddling very difficult 😕

Still, I had some nice rides and, after about 90 minutes, instead of quitting, I had some sandwiches and chocolate and went back out for another 30 minutes.

In the second session, I probably did some of my best surfing ever, but my Gopro had run out of battery and the surf cam wasn't working, so unfortunately I've not got any videos ☹️

Oh well, I had a good time anyway 🤙

Here's hoping the same conditions will happen some time soon...