John Dennis I use a Gorilla pod Tripod from Joby which has flexible legs, so you can spread them out for stability or wrap them around a rail or post etc.

Note that there are cheaper knock-off copies out there, but they tend to be of poor quality and may break or fall apart.

Scott Wagenblast I think you may be bending from the waist too much.

If you look at the pic and your take off, your butt seems to be hanging over the rail as you're in a poo-man stance, rather than a sprinter position.

Also your front arm is blocking your twist so you can't look back at the foam.

Lifting the elbow and putting it in your back pocket will help.

I agree that you're not close enough to the peak, you could have been at least three board lengths to the right.

John Dennis The coffee cup is always in the rear hand. The problem many people have (including me!) is their front arm getting in their way, so "putting the elbow in the back pocket" is a good way to help prevent that 🙂

To do it successfully you really need to make sure your weight is stacked over your front foot, ie you should be able to lift your back foot off the board. If you can't, you need to get your hips forward.

Hope that helps 👍

For your second week, that's not bad at all 👍

To help you kiss your knees, you need to get your feet more at 45 degrees from the nose, at the moment they're forcing you into a side-on stance.

This also means you're tending to have your left foot and left arm forward, but you would normally walk left foot, right arm.

Lift the left elbow out to the side and try to put it in your back pocket.

That, combined with getting the knees to point in the direction you're going will help you twist and look through the turn as well as making it easier to compress and extend.

Eng The aim is to get the feel for what you want to do on the wave such that you have developed the body habits beforehand 👍

It looks nice and smooth, you're compressing and extending well, but you're overdoing it a bit.

Imagine you want to hop on a low bench, you appear to be trying to jump onto a high table, so just ease up a little.

Also you need to work on the timing, don't start to extend until you're actually on the ramp, then start to compress as you approach the apex to unweight the board as your turn to come down.

But it's definitely good for only your second session 👍

Ocean is better, but pool has guaranteed good waves!

If you're near a reliable Ocean break, that's great, but if not, get in the pool to brush up your skills.