Graham on OMBE Surf

Graham

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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Commented on Hey all!Living a long way from the se...

25 Jun 21:34

You get the principle when you say a wave is moving forwards.

If you plot your surfing path in 3D, it's not a simple parabola as you're being pushed forward at the same time.

A curved bowl face replicates this more realistically. 👍

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25 Jun 01:30

Look at the Browse/ OMBE Insiders/ Feedback on your surfing replays of the old Live Chats.

Often Clay talks about the "strike zone", ie the part of the wave that you're going to be engaging with next.

When you take off, you want to look down the line to see what the wave is going to do, but not looking so far that you're not aware of the immediate surroundings.

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15 Jun 22:50

Wishing a happy birthday to Clayton Nienaber 🤙

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05 Jun 00:08

Lovely wave!

I would suggest that maybe you need to go further down the face before you start your bottom turn.

Get more Nose to the Beach to pick up speed, then pass the coffee to the lip.

Don't forget to look back to the foam after the top turn.

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05 Jun 00:04

John Kuras Thanks for that.

I can get the stance right when I'm on dry land, but I don't seem to be able get it right on the board ☹️

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04 Jun 05:07

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Following my previous post, last Sunday was a "surf social" event that a local group organises and they had someone taking photos, so here's a couple of shots of me.

Unfortunately the conditions were pretty rubbish, there was some ground swell, but it was windy and there was a lot of chop that spoiled the waves.

I'd decided to take my webbing strap to practice the stick surfing drills and try to get more stacked over the front foot, but even though it felt a bit better, it looks like I'm still very much on my back foot.

BTW it also appears I'm looking down, but I was actually trying to read the wave in front of me.

I have been doing the Bosu ball drills, but it's just not translating into the water.

I'm not sure what to do next, should I try to get my elbows higher? Hips forward? Any suggestions would be welcome.

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02 Jun 08:29

Thanks for the comments, but my issue at the moment is just to get the stance right.

Once I've got that fixed I can worry about everything else 😕

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31 May 20:38

I'm hoping to get down to Devon soon with better waves, but I always remember what you say about being able to surf poor waves well...

I know I need to get more on the front foot and hips forward, but it's just not happening on the wave ☹️

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31 May 04:30

There's a very short trailer on YouTube, but it's literally just him looking at a whole bunch of virtually identical boards and saying they're different, which isn't exactly guaranteed to hook in viewers.

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31 May 03:45

As you may have noticed, I post a lot on here. I've watched all the videos multiple times, I can look at other people's clips and see what they're doing and how they might improve things.

Then I see a video of myself and, despite knowing all this stuff, it looks rubbish ☹️

Here's one from last week, (ignore the crap walk up, I was getting tired), but I'm not getting stacked over the front foot, I'm not well balanced and I'm bending from the waist.

So what should I be doing to fix this?

https://youtu.be/SlpkricFNQQ

PS this is, unfortunately, about the only split screen video I could show, on most rides I was positioned too far over to get on the webcam 🙄