First thing I'd suggest is trying some body surfing, so you can feel where the power is in the wave.

If you're out on the shoulder, you're not going to catch it, because there's no push, so you need to judge where the peak is and get there.

Once you've caught the wave, feel the glide and look down the line to where you're going to be next so you can judge whether you want to take a steeper path for a slower wave or angle more across the face to stop yourself nose diving.

When you have that established would be the point at which you walk up, but you can try belly boarding a few waves to give yourself the chance to think about what's happening, rather than stressing thinking "got to pop up...!"

There's a good tutorial about the Three P's of Position, Posture and Presence which may help.

https://train.ombe.co/programs/pop-up

Looks good 👍

Most importantly, your left arm isn't getting in your way.

You do seem to be a bit back foot heavy, though and you could extend more going up the wave, but it's nice and tidy 🙂

Tom Tebbatt There's two apps, but only this one has much life...

Jerry Do you have any videos?

Coryn Daniel Possibly, but it would be nice to know if we can uninstall it.

It sounds like you're surfing messy beach breaks like I do.

The only real way to deal with this is to be very picky with your wave choice 😕

I'm using a Samsung A52s running Android 14, so I doubt that's the problem.

😁

John Kuras Excellent!

Good to see that Clay's influence is spreading 🤙

I'd say your most important thing is to get more front on, being side on makes you back foot heavy, so the nose is coming up and the rocker is pushing water, causing drag which slows you down.

Bring your coffee cup (back) arm forward to help you lunge and kiss the knees, that will help you compress onto the front foot and let you engage the rail.

Also it's a nice wave, but you're not going top to bottom to make the most of it, although the people paddling out in front of you across the shoulder probably aren't helping ☹️