You do appear to be racing down the line a bit, although it appears to be a fairly fast wave, but you could try going more top to bottom.

I would suggest checking out the Stick Surfing drills to help you concentrate on getting your hands out in front, like your board has handlebars.

Personally I use a length of webbing that I can wrap around my wrist and tuck into my sleeve when I'm paddling which is easier than trying to hold a stick in my teeth! 😬

The coffee cup is always in the back hand, it encourages you to keep the shoulders and chest pointing forward so you can look to both sides and especially back at the foam.

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Put simply, if you imagine you have a cup of coffee in your back hand, you want to keep it up and forward so you don't spill it.

Then if you want to go up the wave, you put the cup on the lip, to turn left, you pass the coffee to the left etc.

There's a good introductory video where Clay explains the principles here:

https://train.ombe.co/programs/coffee-cup-intro-coffee-cup-stance-cardboard-surfer

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 🙂

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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.