Month of Surf Training in September:

Decided I am going to dedicate myself to 1 month of surfing/ surf training everyday for at least 30 mins a day.

If there are waves ill surf even if it is just catching white water on a foamie. I'll practice my pop ups and weight shifting and how that effects board movement.

If no waves I will paddle up and down the beach for 30 mins. Work on paddle endurance and low back strength.

If it's inclement weather and I can't get in the water I will surf skate, weight train, stretch, bosu mind surf while watching a John john video.

30 days of training or working towards my goal of improving every day.

I'll come back on October 1st and let every one know how I progressed.

My current baseline: I can pop up with little to no issues. I'm comfortable in the ocean regardless of wave size. I can get down the line with minor compression and extension.

Goals:

Paddle endurance

Working towards line 3 surfing (compression/ extension, arm control, utilizing more than the bottom of the wave.)

Doing a turn! Any turn will do to start....

Really want to get cutbacks down.

Let's see how it goes!

So I turn, hold it longer than usual, come back around and…..no speed. Where did I go wrong?

Hello, I hope everyone is doing well. What part of the wave should I look at when popping up backside? When I look down the line I tend to outrun the wave. When I look at the bottom of the wave I get hung up. I can’t drop in backside and look at the top of the wave so I’m not sure what to look at. Thanks for any advice.

Have a chance to record my front & back side turn on ramp, how can I make it smoother & the head over bum method... Thanks in advance...

Heyooo 👋 anyone in Nicaragua in upcoming 2 months? 😁

These clips are several months apart and I probably averaged one or two sessions a week over that time frame.  Usually end up getting a couple turns/attempt per session, so maybe the equivilant of three or four wave pool sessions.  Hoping to get to one in the fall and speed up the learning curve.

Still looks like I am folding forward too much going into the turn, but I've been working on actively moving my right arm out of the way rather than letting it hang in place.  This has allowed me to look back at the wave more freely, and I think the board really follows where you look. Practicing on the surfskate has helped.

Pre-OMBE I would have bolted down the line on both of these waves. Changing my line has helped get the turn count up in these short beach break waves.

Chipping away at it. 

Michiel van Gerven I could not upload a video to my original month of training post so I have attached it here.

This equipment is much more expensive than that paddle trainer I linked earlier, but I used to do this same thing at my community gym before my wife and I bought this for ourselves because our community gym has gotta too crowded get a work out done with out wait times for everything.

I imagine you could replicate with bands as well.

I'm going for time. 1:00 x 5 sets and as it becomes easier to accomplish I add time not reps.

First time in a skate park in about 15 years!

Just got my surfskate last week, and had a chance this morning to try compressing/extending through some of the little transition features. Kept things small, slow, and mellow as I didn’t have protective gear and wanted to ease into things, but it felt really good to start feeling things out.

Any obvious problem areas to think about going forward? Front-on enough? I know I botched the end of one of the turns pretty badly: just kind of folded at the hip and lost speed instead of getting a good pump out of the bottom.

Beginner here! and new to OMBE! I’m only just now learning to ride down the face of the wave and if I am able to, I want to push myself to try turning. I’m open to any suggestions or tips for entering this new phase from all of you amazing surfers out there!! I plan on buying a surf skate to help too. (This is Progressive turns at Urbnsurf)