4 signs you're still a beginner surfer
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Surfers who feel like they can't get past the beginner stage tend to have the same pain points with their surfing. Whilst coaching over several days down at the wave pool in Melbourne, I took down these notes to hopefully help you progress past that sometimes frustrating level.
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As a long time surfer I don't need to watch your videos but I do anyway, because you bring all the magic back to me of when I first started. You have a lot of love for your beginners - it's so great to see clips of them here! - and you explain things so well. I'm an I.T. professional and a large part of my work is to translate technical subjects into simple English for the business to understand. I observe in your delivery there has been a lot of work behind the scenes of how to get concepts across to beginners simply. It's a beautiful job. I wish you all the success you deserve in your training school and may you have many happy times with your students on your journeys sharing the magic of surfing with them.
Thank you so much mate for this kind comment! And the ongoing support hope to see you in the water sometime
@@KalesBroccoliExtremely well deserved comment Kale.
Thanks for explaining this all so well. I appreciate your valuable CZcams content!
Another great one Kale, thanks for you content!
Thankyou Kale. Brilliant work here bru
Great video mate! Always is the thought if I'm a beginner or intermediate surfer. This video helped clarify where I'm at.
Great to hear!
Ur a legend 🏄♂️ love your vids always fun and informative.
Dear Kale- ur a National Treasure! Wish I’d seen these vids 2-3 years ago- woulda saved a lot of angst. Keep up the great work mate
Wow, thank you!
I started about 5 months ago on a massive 9'6" 81L, now on an 8 ft foamy & ready for a hard top...much mahalo for ur paddling video's (smooth banana)...really gave me the confidence to get the board in the water for the first time 😄
When I doubt , paddle out.
When your tired, don’t want to go surfing , paddle out.
When it looks crappy from the beach, paddle out.
By doing this you will learn your mind is your enemy in doubting possibility.
And through this process you will always want to keep learning and honing your craft.
It worked for me .
I mean when the waves look crappy, they usually are
thanks for the insight...great video
Wow you explain it all so well. Lucky guys getting lessons from you. Ill add one more point…. Get out surfing more! Haha. practice helps soo much. I’ll need to get out more and see where I stand in regards to my surfing! Excellent video,
Of course, that is the most obvious one ha ha! I try not to recycle too much
Appreciate the content brother! 🤙🏾
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Bro I aways learn so much from your videos!! Thank you
My pleasure!
i have been watching your videos i have been riding a soft top 6,6 i just bougt a 5,11 shortboard so im starting to learn on it keep up the great work
That's a massive drop in length. You may be tempted as a result to keep too much of your board's nose above the water when you paddle? That will make it harder for you to catch waves. You may also lack some speed as shorter boards are slower. My fave board was a 5' 10", for normal paddling I would position myself so the tip of the nose was only just out of the water while I was in a relaxed position. Like, literally level with the water, or at most half an inch out. (Although in choppy water, 1" or even 1.5" above the water so it would lift rather than dig in when hitting through chop.) But when paddling for less powerful waves I'd shift forward so the tip of the nose was an inch or two UNDER the water while I was in a relaxed position, but I would arch my back up to lift the nose out of the water. Then as the wave started to drop beneath me, I would drop my chest and head down to the nose of the board to gain that extra tilt which aligns your board at a better angle with the slope of the wave, giving you less resistance from the tail digging in and thus more speed to complete the catch.
Hope this helps you. Can't guarantee it's good practice, it was just what I learned to do by myself. 😋
Hope you love your 5' 11" as much as I loved mine!
#1 kook move is riding boards too small for you. Don't do it. Learn the basics like stance, bottom turns, top turns on a bigger board.
@@boltup5566 I have to disagree with you here. After you've learned how to stand up and ride, if you're prepared to handle the sensitivity of a shorter board, to put up with the extra wipeouts caused by overbalancing at first, that same sensitivity will train you a lot faster than a big old log where you fall over trying to turn it. You just need to understand the choices you're making.
Ultimately the shorter the board the more it will go where you want it to, as long as it can carry your weight properly, and as long as it can handle the speed produced by bigger waves without overreacting to the chop.
And Rhett, keep the soft top board for tiny wave days where the short one can't get enough out of the wave to ride.
@@boltup5566 Also, stance comes naturally. Yes it's good to think about your stance especially if you're not getting the results you want out of your surfing, but at the end of the day someone who just goes out there and surfs for 8 hours trying to do a manoevre is going to develop the stance he needs by sheer learning the hard way. This can be more fun than spending hours staring at yourself thinking about where your arms are. Again it's up to the individual.
@@greatbriton8425 riding a board too small for you is a good thing?? Lol. Also who said anything about a log? Just because you stand up doesn't mean you're ready for a shortboard.
1. Turning to paddle for the wave too early
2. You keep your surfing out into the flats
3. You don't surf waves that are big enough
4. You surf from the hips instead of the knees (legs)
I was told the opposite of #1 at Witch's Rock Surf Camp. Maybe being on a longboard is the difference.
This is awesome Kale, a couple of my mate are really struggling with this and I have struggles to explain this to them.
I will tell them to like and subscribe your videos as you explain things better than I ever could.
Eeeuuu 🤙🏽
Thank you!!! That’s great
@@KalesBroccoli by the way I have just bought myself a smoothstar surf skate, the Filipe toledo #77 which arrived last Saturday.
I have been watching your surf skate tutorials to help me progress my surf skating.
I’ve only had two skates as I’ve been surfing over the weekend.
I can really feel already from a couple rides on it on Saturday that my compression and extension is a lot better.
I pit this into my surf on Sunday and ….WOW!
My bottom turns are really giving me more speed to allow me to put more power in to my top turns.. ie, cutbacks, re-entries.
I’m mind blown.
Thanks Kale
Nice one mate. See you’re still ridding the mid strength 👍 mad board
Thank you! Old footage actually - I have something better coming :)
Seems to easy when u describe it ! The trick is to succeed in applying your instructions! Thanks a lot !😅
Great video mate
Thanks !
Great videos l raised my hand
We have a Wave Pool in Australia?
I've heard of Kelly Slater's in America.
I've heard it's very expensive to Surf on his Wave Pool.
Didn't know Australia had a Wave Pool. I surfed Bellambi Beach in Wollongong, Illawarra. We had world class surfers from The Illawarra.
Don't have a Wave Farm.
Just a Local Beach.
Why you never talk about skate pool , is helping a lot in understanding how to go up and down on the wave generates speed also building confidence for big wawes
I think its time to use some of our footage for inspiring those to surf in more creative attire
😂😂
bro i've never surfed yet, but Im gonna
please do another video about the chilli mid strength
I have something better coming!
a 5'8 27 volume shortboard suitable for which level? (For a 75kg guy)
advanced
is that joey johns on the thumbnail?
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Can I ask what waves you choose at the Melbourne urban surf to teach these guys?
We use a range of settings you can check it out on my website
What about getting caught inside and not being able to paddle out at big cloud break???
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Bring me in...
Making me famous hahahah love your coaching ❤
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Forget having the confidence to surf bigger waves, I just can't find any.
bro where is he shooting these videos with pristine waves and 3 people out
Impossible to watch your video, so many adverts. Sad as I watched all your previous postings and loved them.
Bugger - I often just let CZcams place them automatically. Will try to ensure not too many but remember you can also go premium / know that the ads support your free access to this content
Damn! I'm first!!
Cool! What did you get? 😆
@@greatbriton8425a little pat on the butt from his mommy. 😂
@@boltup5566 Dude, I wasn't being critical, just funny. It's nice to be first.
@@greatbriton8425 he got better skills to surf lol
A feeling of satisfaction lol@@greatbriton8425
5:19 great vid. However, gyroscopic stability? Has no place in surfing. No need to over complicate and inevitably stuff up the physics talk.
Settle petal
@@KalesBroccoli pfff
Other than the basics, surfing is not something than can be taught. It's all about muscle memory, and the only way to get that is repetitive actions. So if you want to progress passed the beginner stage, it's just practice. If you surf once a month or even once a week you're not going to progress. It something you have to commit to daily to see improvement.
It is 1000% something that can be taught and accelerated but yes definitely requires commitment :)
My friend coaching me through my learning process definitely accelerated my progression but 100% more days in the water will equate to faster learning
Only half of that is true mate, having a game plan helps you progress faster just like with literally anything else in life. Yes you still need to go through trial and error, but with coaching, errors can be more quickly identified, understood and fixed making progress so much faster.
me who lives away from the sea :
We getting old bruh... but I still got some old dog moves left
Yes when the student is ready the teacher will appear. 🤕
One sign I'm still a beginner, I suck.
These waves make me swell with jealousy
Wave pools, the beginning of the end of surfing. RIP surfing 😢
Thanks!
Welcome!