Nico Remember OMBE is Ocean, Mind, Body, Equipment.

Work on sorting out the mind and body rather than hoping that a different board will solve the problem 👍

A bigger board will just be slower to turn and harder to get on rail, which is probably the opposite of what you need at the moment.

Like Clayton told me on a recent video of mine he reviewed, you do your best surfing at the end where you just stand up, stack the joints and relax 🙂

Try to get that feeling from the take off.

When you're surf skating, it looks like your arms are trying to to the work of your legs.

Try the stick skating drills and lift and open the front arm more.

When you're surfing also you need to get the front arm open so you can look back at the moment.

John Andryszewski I reckon so 👍

At the take off, as you start to come down the wave, you chop sideways, then down, then rush out onto the shoulder.   If you had carried on down to the bottom of the wave before doing the bottom turn I think you could have got to the top much earlier, then come back down before the person paddling across the shoulder. You would then have been able to turn back to the foam and got another turn in before the person dropping in chandeliered the wave.

I think your problem is that your coffee cup arm is pointing backwards and you're leading with your front hand.

This puts the board flat instead of engaging the rail.

Bring your back arm round and point it where you want to go and you should get the bottom turn in.

It looks pretty good, you're getting some nice rail there 👍

A couple of things come to mind:

1) When you're going up the wave, you seem to be rather back foot heavy and thats keeping you compressed. Try, instead, extending on the front foot so the nose of the board isn't sticking up in the air.

2) When you do the top turn, you're looking down at the nose instead of back to the foam.

If you bring your front elbow up and try to put it in your back pocket, that will help you twist so the board stays on rail instead of it going flat which is, I think, what makes you fall.

I have to say that I did very much prefer the Zoom chats, being able to get advice and ask questions of the Guru himself was definitely a fantastic opportunity that set Ombe apart from any other surf training 👍

I do appreciate that it's a bit more difficult for Clay and that Ant isn't available because of his work commitments, but it would be nice to have something like it back again.

I agree that it did often seem to be the same problems (that's how I've learned to spot them on people's videos!), but IMO the best version was when clips were divided up into Advanced, Intermediate and Beginner.

Perhaps, if someone could pre-watch the clips they could be grouped so we go through all the examples of people who, for example, are having problems with their take off or compression and extension, then Clay could break down a representative example that would show the solution for all those clips?

Thanks 👍

I think I'm concentrating on keeping the coffee cup arm up but the other arm is trying to balance me...

I want to work more on getting stacked over the front foot, but due to a cold I picked up when skiing back in January I've just not had the energy and I'm only just recovering my endurance.

It's a shame because there were some lovely waves at my local break ☹️