Has anyone ever tried wetsuit dressing aids such as Octacle or Slippy?

My new 5/4/3 winter wetsuit from Dakine is great, but although I can use the plastic bag trick to help get my lower arms and legs in, the thighs, torso and shoulders tend to bind and it's difficult to paddle.

I end up wasting energy fighting the resistance of the suit, no matter how I try to pull it about and get it to sit right.

I've tried messaging Dakine, but got no help there, I just don't want to use anything that could mess it up.

Any suggestions or advice would be welcome.

Anyone else suffering? 🤣

I'm 62 in March and been surfing about 5 years, on and off due to injuries.

6ft, 42 litre Lost Mayhem Puddle Jumper with Twin and Trailer MR fin set

Currently Line 2 on 2 to 3ft faces, angled take offs, cardboard slides, trimming, pumping with shallow top and bottom turns on frontside, occasional cutbacks. Very poor on backside.

Current injuries mean paddling out back is challenging so trying to take off in the pocket on the inside to avoid paddling too much

Right Romboid tear - 18 months physio

Left Rotator Cuff and left arm nerve pain - ongoing, possibly C4 and C5 issues

Right Meniscus tear - improving but weak. Wear compression stocking over knee when surfing

Head Finjuries - glued back together twice

Lower back pain - ongoing

Lower left back - QL pain too deep to massage out - no fix found yet

Sciatica symptoms in Right buttock and leg - possible cyst in Lumber Spine. Debilitating when at its worst but slowly improving - if I sit down less

I get some relief from walking, surfing (buoyancy when standing in waist to chest deep water) and lying flat on back - various Chtis Mills exercises

2026 AIMS - Line 3 turns, improving cutbacks frontside and trying to nail backside bottom turn. Courage to increase wave size/steepness without fear of more injuries 🙃

Hopefully an OMBE Surf Trip one day 🙏

I’m having trouble getting through my top turn. I feel this is kind of my common fall lately

This one I tried to lean and enage the rails and instantly felt the board is going up

And here is the backside

Hello everyone my name is Yiu Ting and I am from Hong Kong. Back in home there is almost no wave mostly(only close out and white water). So it is really hard for me to learn surfing, and i can only go to bali during vacation. I think the days in water for me is like 80-100 days. Now i am living by those countries with good wave and see how far can i progrss and hopefully can be a better surfer. Here is some of the clips of my surfing and i discovered these bad habits after watching ombe’s videos

1. Knee not kissing, very side on

2.back foot too heavy

3.lack of compression and extension

4.rails not engaged mostly

5.hands are flying around not properly placed mostly.

I would like to know is there anymore bad habits i showed that need to change and how should be the sequence for me to change these for progress. I am living in sri lanka for 1 more month now(mellow waves) and will be going to Indonesia after.

Thoughts on the best I got today

Hello,

Happy new year everyone.

Got some new footage from my last trip. Sad enough I still surf like a wooden plank. 😂 Well I think I doing a pet good for surfing 5 years. However I want to improve more. So please tell me what is ping wrong. Notice already the pop up my leg goes outside. On land I’m not doing that. Maybe because it take more time. Also I notice it last summer so still a bad habit that’s not out of my system yet. I do stand up more , but think it need to compress more. Any advise is welcome. Thank you.

Selamat sore, hello everyone!

I would like to hear your opinion on that :)

Clearly, i have to work on a few things...

But step by step, right?

What do you think i should focus on at the moment?

Maybe the "coffee cup"?

Best regards

Benjanin