Wow, do I understand your pain!! I just took this video two minutes ago right from my balcony

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It is disheartening for sure, at times. I’m sorry you’re disappointed.

I am in a similar situation as you. I haven’t surfed in about five years, just started again March. I had a hip replacement and after all of that and the healing time, the muscles in my upper thigh still cannot support my weight alone in a bent position. So it’s definitely a struggle but I do see I am getting stronger and wiser every dey by doing my PR and OMBE land drills. Chin up, it’ll get better. 😀🙏

Can you play in the whitewater, Roxy?

We have sloppy, wind blown beach break going on here. 👀

So, I’m wondering, Roxy Susanne Gunther Libby Stanos, Dee Pnak Coryn Daniel and anyone else who’d like to participate, if they’d be interested in going week by week through the program where we are working on the same thing, then posting it here where we can give each other feedback. Like a study group. So, while I moved on from my 6 week beginner, I’d be ok with starting the 6 week beginner land training drills over.

This is not by any means a replacement for the monthly video feedback but to progress in our land drills and provide a bit of structured support.

There is a video in the series that shows Clayton‘s hip and rib placement from the ground on the Bosu. I need a little bit of time to find it but I will let you know which one it is.

From what I see, you should reverse engineer that. Start in your neutral stance as if you did your walk up and are already surfing — now bend your knees and get low, place your hands down on bosu and step legs back, one at a time. Once you have done the reverse you can sort of figure out where you should be to actually do the walk up on the Bosu.

If you put your hands in that same position and tried to do that on flat land, you would not be able to accomplish this either.

Wow, I had a pretty big comment… sorry. I’m definitely passionate about surfing. Lol

Libby Stano We are so hard on ourselves, aren’t we? Ask any beginner and he/she would be thrilled to have videos like these. Your awareness of what you should and shouldn’t be doing is a win! Just knowing that is super helpful. Watching videos of myself initially was definitely horrific but they have become such an incredible tool to truly fine tune on land and in water moves. I don’t even view my videos anymore as a whole. I break them down in slo mo so I can identify the issue. Or what I’ve done right. After months of my new walk up style on land, I’m finding that these things are now happening automatically in the water. So much so that after the wave I’m like, did I actually pass the coffee cup or push the trolley? 🙌 It’s the little victories!!

I do not have any comments regarding your surfing because you’re already aware of the things you wish to fix. I’m sure you had a blast in the moment either way! 😀😀

As far as Bali… that sounds amazing! I wish that part of the world was closer. I can’t bare more than a 7 hour plane ride. 3 hours is my ideal. 😀

Trigger words. I don’t know if you remember our conversation about buoyancy, and we started discussing our walk ups. I remember telling you that my action word is rise. To prevent me from rounding my back— after the second smaller triangle I just need to rise. Nothing else. That has helped me getting into a nice neutral stance front on like I’m skateboarding.

After day in day out repetitions, I felt myself just rising after the second triangle on the walk up with coffee cup in hand when out in the ocean 😀 It felt great.

My left leg (back leg) still cannot support the weight of my entire body but I continue to plug away on exercises to activate the muscles.

You have 2 more sessions here?

I am super confused as to which app to use and when and why. Are you talking about the Mighty app?

Hi Libby, the videos are great. Thank you for sharing them with us.

I can't wait to see it, Libby! 🤙