Coryn Daniel This day was probably the best the waves have been for practicing carving turns/cutbacks in my area since I came across OMBE. I got one decent turn on video from this day which I posted a while back. Had several others that felt good but my camera blew over 20 min into the session. After this day, it was about a month until I had another good session where the waves were cooperating. If waves were that good consistently I think I'd be a lot further along. Hardest part of surfing has to be the lack of repetition.

Mark Hind Thanks, yeah I feel like I didn't even get a chance to look back at the foam, etc. because I fell so quickly. I think posture may have been the main culprit that blocked the rest of the steps from happening. Twisting the wrist is a good cue, but always blank on that in the water.

Graham Marsden I wish I had more of my successful attempts on video to see what is different, but I noticed the same thing about collapsing forward at the waist on this wave. Maybe that shuts the whole thing down and makes it difficult to properly pass the coffee, look back at the foam, etc.

Steven Segal I might be wrong but I think you may have waited too long to initiate a bottom turn and traveled too far into the flats where the wave has less power. Graham Marsden how do you see it?

I struggle with generating speed on weaker waves and I am more likely to get stuck behind the section if it's a faster wave when going back side.

I find it helps to look down the line while in the process of the back side take off. You kind of went straight down into the flats before turning your head to look at what the wave was doing.

At the point where the video stopped, you're feet are close to the heel side edge of the board but you're hinged at the hips with your weight over the center or possibly toe side of the board.

I actually just tried this on a bosu ball.  Standing upright with my heels close to the edge, the ball was obviously tilted with the edge resting on the ground.  When I hinged at the hips and put my weight over the center/toe side it brought the bosu ball level even though my feet were on the edge.

I think you're upper body in that position is keeping the board flatter whereas if you were standing more upright with your feet in that position I think you would have gotten a little more rail engagement.  But like Graham said, that board would probably be hard to get on rail in any case.

Looks like a really fun wave! That board looks like it might be a little floatier than needed for the way you are surfing, and it might make it harder to get more on rail.

With the current format, my main critique is the 1 minute size limit of the clips.  Ideally, I'd like to be able to see the full wave/ride play out for context before Clayton dives into the breakdown.  With the time limit, I get that playing the wave in full would take away too much time from the analysis, so I think it is what is unless there's a fix for the time limit.

Beyond that I am mostly indifferent to the two formats.  I enjoyed watching the playbacks of the live sessions and the tangents, but it did become a little redundant with a lot of the clips being similar.

Would be curious to know the answer as well. For the wave on the right, did you hit the top turn on a slightly softer part of the wave compared to the one on the left? Looked like maybe you didn't get as much push from the wave when you started the carve and your body got a little out of sync with the board.

I think your technique looks pretty good. I'd suggest changing up your line a bit. For example, around the 12 sec mark on the second wave, you projected straight across the wave and initiated the turn midface. I think if you had set that up by going more nose to the beach and doing more of a bottom turn you would have stayed closer to the power source and gotten more help from the wave on the cutback like Graham suggested. This has helped me recently on my frontside turns.