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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!

Bruce A.

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January 22

Is there a printable diagram of the 4 (or 5) Line Method? A roadmap of sorts we can keep pushing forward on?

Hadyn W.

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January 16

Anyone else suffering? 🤣

I'm 62 in March and been surfing about 5 years, on and off due to injuries.

6ft, 42 litre Lost Mayhem Puddle Jumper with Twin and Trailer MR fin set

Currently Line 2 on 2 to 3ft faces, angled take offs, cardboard slides, trimming, pumping with shallow top and bottom turns on frontside, occasional cutbacks. Very poor on backside.

Current injuries mean paddling out back is challenging so trying to take off in the pocket on the inside to avoid paddling too much

Right Romboid tear - 18 months physio

Left Rotator Cuff and left arm nerve pain - ongoing, possibly C4 and C5 issues

Right Meniscus tear - improving but weak. Wear compression stocking over knee when surfing

Head Finjuries - glued back together twice

Lower back pain - ongoing

Lower left back - QL pain too deep to massage out - no fix found yet

Sciatica symptoms in Right buttock and leg - possible cyst in Lumber Spine. Debilitating when at its worst but slowly improving - if I sit down less

I get some relief from walking, surfing (buoyancy when standing in waist to chest deep water) and lying flat on back - various Chtis Mills exercises

2026 AIMS - Line 3 turns, improving cutbacks frontside and trying to nail backside bottom turn. Courage to increase wave size/steepness without fear of more injuries 🙃

Hopefully an OMBE Surf Trip one day 🙏

Andrew M.

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January 15

I’m having trouble getting through my top turn. I feel this is kind of my common fall lately

Yiu Ting P.

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January 15

This one I tried to lean and enage the rails and instantly felt the board is going up

Yiu Ting P.

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January 15

And here is the backside

Yiu Ting P.

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January 15

Hello everyone my name is Yiu Ting and I am from Hong Kong. Back in home there is almost no wave mostly(only close out and white water). So it is really hard for me to learn surfing, and i can only go to bali during vacation. I think the days in water for me is like 80-100 days. Now i am living by those countries with good wave and see how far can i progrss and hopefully can be a better surfer. Here is some of the clips of my surfing and i discovered these bad habits after watching ombe’s videos

1. Knee not kissing, very side on

2.back foot too heavy

3.lack of compression and extension

4.rails not engaged mostly

5.hands are flying around not properly placed mostly.

I would like to know is there anymore bad habits i showed that need to change and how should be the sequence for me to change these for progress. I am living in sri lanka for 1 more month now(mellow waves) and will be going to Indonesia after.

michael L.

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January 14

Thoughts on the best I got today

S.S.F

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January 06

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.