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 ☹️

Are you losing it during the bottom turn or before?

Video of it would be useful.

Brian Nottidge I've just tried uploading a test clip and it seemed to work OK, so maybe it was a temporary glitch.

How big was your video file?

BTW the best way to share video with the Community is to create a YouTube channel, put it on there and then share the link.

Clayton Nienaber  If you can get access to BBC iPlayer there was a documentary recently called The Secret Life of Waves which was very interesting and talks about similar things that you're mentioning now.It does get a bit philosophical in places, but it makes a fascinating point that waves aren't actually made of water, they're made of energy travelling through the water.(If you get a message saying you need a TV Licence, just click on the button that says "I've got one" 😁)https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y5jhx