Steven Segal It's the water drawing up that helps you go up the wave.

As Scott Wagenblast says, you ride down into the flats and it's not until the wave catches up with you that you start to go up.

As you take off, look at the wave and where it's drawing up so you can figure out the line you want to take, then point your knees and arms there.

Steven Segal  You appear to be pretty relaxed which is good, but although you're looking towards the lip, you're not really doing anything to get there until later in the video when you extend and the water going up the wave's face lifts you there.

Bring your front arm up to make yourself extend on the front foot, and try to put your elbow in your back pocket which will help you twist, then pass the coffee cup to the lip and you'll go there 👍

Steven Segal Personally I upload my videos to YouTube and post the links in here which works fine 👍

Steven Segal As Michiel suggested, use the "photo" button then select your video.

Alternatively, create a new post, then reply to yourself and use the + button in the circle to add the clip.

The first question I'd ask is: Are you looking at the wave? 🙂

If you're not front-on or your leading arm is in the way and stopping your twist, it's much harder to see where the water is drawing up and then lift the coffee cup to the lip.

Do you have any videos?

michael lange As Clay says: Nose to the beach 👍

michael lange I probably didn't explain the "going right" call clearly enough as it's also to tell them which way to go.

When I was surfing last week, a young kid (who was actually pretty good) had caught a wave and was heading towards me. It was my job to get out of their way because they had the wave, but I didn't know which way they were going to go.

Fortunately they went the other way, but without a clear cue, I had to just guess and hope.

As for your wave it's difficult to see from this distance, but it looks like there was still water drawing up that you could have tapped into rather than cutting the bottom turn short.

michael lange I'd say you could have followed a line similar to this which would have gained you more speed and got you back to the lip sooner.

Also a loud shout of "Going RIGHT!" would have asserted your priority 🙂

I'd say that if you just used a bit more of the wave, waiting longer to start your bottom turn and holding the cutback longer, you'd get the results you want 👍

Are you the surfer going right?