Graham Marsden

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

17 Oct 19:43

Your take off seems good, you glide in and look down the line, but it appears that your back foot is turned at more than 90 degrees from the nose which is causing the poo-man stance.

If you can get that fixed it should help you get front on so you can stack on the front foot with the coffee cup arm forward.

16 Oct 23:41

Have a look at the Stick Surfing drills.

Using what Clay calls a "pattern interruptor" to make you concentrate on what your hands and elbows are doing may be helpful.

Cath Gito Sorry, I can't help with that since I've never done it ☹️

13 Oct 21:10

I've got a 7'6 Torq Mod Fun, but it's a thruster configuration. What do you mean by "struggle at bending"?

12 Oct 10:38

Maria Molè  I was out at East Wittering and the conditions were beautiful, almost glassy smooth with just a little bit of off-shore wind, sets running around 3-4' or even more with about a 15 second period and nice long gaps between them too. Unfortunately last month I'd picked up some virus which has wiped out my endurance, meaning I was struggling and my technique was pretty rubbish.Worse, I kept missing waves despite trying my best to do the Oreo take off and then, after about an hour and a half, my left calf muscle suddenly cramped solid as I was walking up and I had to quit.There was even some left over swell today, which would have been nice on my 8'2, but I just didn't dare take the risk 🙁

12 Oct 02:02

I would wonder if the humming was caused by a phenomenon called "vortex shedding" which is making the fins vibrate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_shedding

11 Oct 06:39

Welcome to my world, and pretty much anyone who surfs beach breaks in the UK!We can get a good primary ground swell coming in, but often it's overlaid by a short period secondary windswell that causes choppy conditions and little "spoiler" waves that interfere with the main swell, resulting in messy conditions that make it very difficult to catch anything good 🙁

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10 Oct 04:58

Nice flow 👍

I wish I could get that smooth ☹️ I also wish I had a local bowl that was as good as that...

One thing: your top half looks very tense, maybe try relaxing your shoulders a bit more?

09 Oct 11:10

The next Live is now scheduled for October 22nd, look under Browse/ Upcoming live events in the app.

But videos are dealt with in order of uploading and they only deal with about 8-10 each time, so you might not get into the next one.

Do the video anyway and upload it, but you can also post them in here to get feedback from other OMBE members 👍

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