Your head and torso are almost static. They should turn with your board. When you go up, they should face the wave and when you go down face the beach.

Following Graham’s advice to stand up, you’ll find it easier to rotate the torso.

Matt Lyne Kale Brock has some surf mobility exercices on his YT channel. Maybe Chris Mills also. Or you can probably find a Yoga studio or Pilates class in your area.

I’ll add to the great points mentioned by Graham Marsden that you are surfing flat and surfboards go much faster on rails (less drag).

This wave looks perfect to try surfing top to bottom.

From the takeoff, nose to the beach and then bottom turn, top turn and repeat.

Coryn Daniel there are only good coaches here 🤩

No footage this time and given the weather forecast 🌧️ it may take a while before I ride the surf skate again but I’ll try to get recorded next time.

I went back to the same pump track today with the surf club. The coach gave me several tips and I improved a lot, with much less effort to get going.

The tips are:

- actively pump with the back leg (what you told me, use the legs more!)

- keep the back straight

- put more weight on the front foot downhill and in the curves

Thanks, I’ll try that.

Yes it is nice to have this pump track close by. 3 different tracks: green, blue and red.

Thanks I’ll try that.

It is in the Basque Country.

I’m wondering if training by doing reps of lunges could help. From a plank, can you place your foot between your hands as in pic?

Much better Sacha! Don’t worry about the back foot position, it doesn’t have to be on the pad all the time.

It is a good idea to focus on one thing. Or only one thing in the same part of the wave so they do not overlap (it can be one thing on the pop up and one thing when riding afterwards).

I screenshot what seems to be the biggest issue. See how much your weight is on the back foot right after the takeoff? You’re loosing all the speed that you got after going down the wave. Also notice that your arms are both on the same side of the board. I think that you can try to be even more front on and that would help for speed and stability.