Jason Daliessio

Hey Graham-

Thanks for your response.

Another thing I keep doing is popping-up into a deep “squat” position, where I really need to muscle my way up to stance. I’m in the correct “sprinters stance”, but just deep (while knees bent past 45 degrees and my butt very close to my board - makes it a challenge to stand up to normal surf position.@graham marsden

Clayton, you are definitely on to something here. In small waves, I don’t “stand-up”, rather am too low at pop-up (like almost popping to

my knees).

I can’t get past this, and I am not sure why I continue to do this. When I do pop-up to my feet, I’m in a deep squat and need to really muscle my way to standing.

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07 Oct 08:56

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So I am stuck with this sh$tty take-off and pop-up on small waves. Lifetime surfer that seems to have regressed back to the basics….

So some backstory is that I injured my shoulder surfing about 2 years ago and my paddle strength is not the best. I feel like I struggle catching the wave and end-up on late drops. If I do get to my feet, I usually fall within the first few seconds, as my board speed feels way off.

I know these waves kinda sucked in this video, but seems to carry through on all small waves. For whatever reason, I usually make medium to large waves without this happening?

Thoughts??? Thanks all

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20 Jan 01:41

Thanks for the critique on my pop-up. I look forward to trying to apply what was said. I will post another updated video with these changes. Thanks again