I’ve just finished watching Stab In The Dark with Ethan Ewing. Wow! My mind is completely blown by his surfing. 🤯
I really really wanna surf like the ‘smooth gorilla’!
Has anyone else watched it yet?
I think it would be a fantastic watch just before going out for a surf! Amp central!
Hi! I recently got a couple of videos and would love some advice on how to improve my turns. I felt a bit wobbly this session so I could have done better but they're good videos to analyze. I want my turns to be sharper and more vertical, and eventually spray more water ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THBEJOF7AaA
Some things I notice myself (but correct me if these are false observations):
- I need to look more over my shoulder and open my shoulders/chest more. Now I look to the side but I should maybe look more backwards?
- Sometimes i think i'm turning in the high line of the wave, but then I see the video and i'm only like halfway. How can I make sure to not cut back too soon?
- In the last wave my goal was to cutback against the lip and land it, but I definitely messed that up and went straight through the white water breaking. I knew it was a tricky one and I think thats why my gaze is just off and I wasn't super confident to do it.
Any tips are very much appreciated!
Hi Ombe community, I think the reason of me struggling with cutback is that I didn’t look back the pocket and I didn’t hold my turn.
But would appreciate if someone can point out other serious issues. Maybe my stance is too wide or too heavy on the back foot? 🤔
Back hand seems to just be lagging behind. Might get one not terrible bottom turn (all relative) but then struggling. Open to hearing suggestions here. Have a couple more days at the wave pool.
A kook here new to the community 😃 A question I'm dying to know: I wonder if in general most waves will give you time to glide before pop up?
When I surf bigger (4-6 ft) / more powerful wave, the moment wave approaches me, the water beneath me become very steep and I feel a strong power. I get panicked and want to standup but it's too difficult because of the steepness (I definitely looked at the bottom). I actually don't know if I have time to glide.
I wonder is that a sign of me sitting too deep, or it's natural that bigger / more powerful wave will give that feeling and I can glide and pop up even if the water beneath me seems steep?
Much appreciated for anyone who could share their thoughts 🙏
I haven’t been on a skateboard in probably 20 years…it’s starting to come back to me though 😏 Loving the OMBE surf skate drills!
Hey guys, this footage was a reality check. I was sure I was looking where I want to go but clearly I was not. I also thought my knees were pointing together.I watched a lot of the content here on the app before paddling out, but my surfing actually felt worse today. Focusing on too many new things just made me overthink
Any tips for my next session?
I would really appreciate it
I’m trying to learn a forehand and backhand turn on the surf skate and this video is from my first session. Right off the bat I can see I carry too much tension and am not pumping at the right time to use the energy of the walls and bowl, so I’m wasting energy.
I used a tennis ball to help me mark a line to follow and put numbers 1 - 4 and that really helps me keep my head up and hands forward to glide through and complete the turn.
Any pointers on how to get the feeling of the compression and extension in this context?
Also, I haven’t been able for drop down and do a frontside turn because my mind freezes, then my body, and I can’t flow through over my shoulder.
The swell is picking up now, and i try to bottom turn to aim for the more critical place, but then I think i rushed the top turn because i was scared, so the lips only hitted on me not on the board, is that maybe I should hold it longer for the bottom turn until the lip is going to hit the board? Or any tips or videos i should go to watch if aiming for a more powerful critical lips? Sorry only the photographer got the footage and no vidoe was captured 🙏🙏
