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.

You probably want to perform a bottom turn right after the takeoff, so I would say that you should look at where you’ll be in the middle of your bottom turn, that is, on the flats a bit in front of the wave, a few meters to the side from your takeoff point.

It looks like you are always pretty much extended and never compressed much. On a perfect front side bottom turn, your back hand should almost touch the water. This compression extension helps a lot to generate speed.

Sascha trust your peripheral vision. If you’re looking at the wave, you’ll see obstacles in time.