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.

You will have to twist more than engage the rail if your board has a lot of volume and you may have to do back foot pivot turns, but I have an 8'2 Torq V+ for small waves and I can do a lot of the regular OMBE techniques on a long board, eg the Oreo Biscuit take off, walk up etc.

Look under Browse/ Surf Start programme.

Get a wax crayon and write "Look up!" on the nose of your board!

Seriously, it reminds you of what you need to do in a stressful situation and then you can start to break the habit 👍