Cardboard Surfer

Start Surfing With Style, Technique And Confidence

By The End Of The Program, You Won’t Even Recognise Your Previous Surfing

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Do You Know the Fundamentals of Fluid Surfing?

Good Surfing Style is Just Good Technique.

If You’re a Beginner Wanting to Progress, OR an Intermediate Surfer that’s Stalled, This Program is Perfect for Ramping Up Your Surf Skill & Progression

  • Improve Your Technique

    This program will improve your technique, in the comfort of your own home with no condescending eyes, you will improve your surfing and actually “feel” what good surfing is.

  • Skill Progression

    This program is the first step in further skill progression. Get this down before you get on a surf skateboard.

  • Get Better in the Water

    Feel the movements, the patterns, how to create drive, how to compress, how to coordinate full-body movement, so that you can then replicate it in the water.

Are You Tired of Your Skill Level Being Stuck and Stagnant?

You’ve got Bad Habits… It’s Time to Break Them.

The Cardboard Surfer is “Surf Fundamentals 101”. This is What You NEED to Know In Order to Progress Your Surfing. Change Your Awareness & Understanding of What Good Surfing Is. Break Your Bad Habits. Train New Patterns of Surf Movement, and Apply it to Your Surfing. You WILL Be a Different Surfer by the End of This Program!

Most Surfers Don’t Even Know Basic Wave Mechanics… And Definitely Don’t Know How to Move Their Body to INTERACT With a Wave.

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COURSE CONTENT

WHAT’S IN THE PROGRAM?

The Cardboard Surfer is a series of 7 Primary Lessons, teaching you the true fundamentals of surfing movement. You will develop an understanding of surfing mechanics. You will understand the How and the Why of Good Surfing. You will practice Surf Movements, You will FEEL the Patterns, and you WILL Replicate it in the Surf.

  • Welcome

    2:39 min
  • Why Cardboard Surf

    0:34 min
  • Cardboard Intro

    2:56 min
  • Fundamental Movements

    Compress Lean Twist

    3:09 min
  • Cutting the Cardboard

    1:58 min
  • Lay Down

    1:00 min
  • Walk Up

    0:40 min
  • Cardboard Walk Up Pop Up

    3:48 min
  • Walk Up More Details

    3:44 min
  • ShortBoard Pop Up

    & Foot Positioning

    18:22 min
  • What Is Good Surf Posture

    5:01 min
  • Neutral Posture

    0:47 min
  • Neutral Stance & Posture

    2:33 min
  • Stacking, Front-On, Lunging

    4:01 min
  • Compress

    0:35 min
  • Pick Up the Coffee Cup

    1:01 min
  • Coffee Cup Driver

    3:24 min
  • Compression, Extension, & Twisting

    4:34 min
  • DRIVE

    0:43 min
  • Jump Forwards

    0:42 min
  • Driving a Surfboard

    2:04 min
  • Drive the Cardboard

    0:46 min
  • Jump and Lift

    2:59 min
  • Front Foot vs. Back Foot Turning

    4:20 min
  • Learn to Turn

    1:45 min
  • Twist To Turn

    4:33 min
  • Eyes Lead the Way

    2:36 min
  • Pinky Up Pinky Down

    0:51 min
  • Hands Lead The Way

    1:44 min
  • Make Your Own Set

    1:12 min
  • Equipment

    6:50 min
  • Speed & Power

    9:41 min
  • Body

    9:12 min
  • Carver Skate

    Training Basics

    7:04 min
  • Stretching & Mobility Sequence

    15:39 min
  • Paddling Theory 101

    23:44 min
  • The Perfect Surf Stance

    18:10 min
  • Common Mistakes

    Coffee Cup

    1:12 min
  • Common Mistakes

    Drive

    1:10 min
  • Common Mistakes

    Posture

    1:39 min
  • Common Mistakes

    Turn

    1:27 min
  • Common Mistakes

    Walk Popup

    1:20 min

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  1. One person found this helpful
    Thibault Mokuenko

    Thibault Mokuenko

    Dope program, everything you need to understand to improve your surfing !

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  2. One person found this helpful
    Matt Blomeley

    Great programme!

    Matt Blomeley

    Thanks so much Cris and Clayton! Cardboard Surfer has definitely helped me getting through a plateau with taking off and trimming on shortboards. I’d been struggling for a while in transitioning to a shortboard as I live in a town with a notorious beach break where you have to be quick. Couldn’t believe it when a fun two foot swell turned up recently and I pulled off a dozen long left handers. Will continue to dip into this programme as I progress. So stoked!!

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  3. Mariesa Iulo

    Who knew sliding on a piece of cardboard would change the way I surf

    Mariesa Iulo

    The cardboard surfer program is packed with instruction and “ah ha” moments that have changed the way is surf. Small adjustments taught/discussed in the app have helped make huge improvements in my surfing, such as consciously being “front on”. For some it may be a given but I started surfing way later in life and just the smallest tweak of my hips forward have changed my ability to turn better and generate more speed. I can’t recommend the program enough.

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  4. Daniel Alesanco

    HELPED ME TO IMPROVE AS NOTHING BEFORE

    Daniel Alesanco

    Cardboard surfer and surf skate program helped me to access to every single detail that I needed to really improve as I wanted.Thanks.

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  5. Robert Magill

    Great program!

    Robert Magill

    All of Chris’s programs are great. Currently working on bodyweight surf workout and it is legit. I come back to the cardboard surfer if I haven’t surfed in a while. It helps get the body coordination back, plus the cardboard slide is a gamechanger. I would carry a piece of cardboard in my suitcase and practice with it on the road.

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  6. Mick

    Exceptional product

    Mick

    Very well researched and top of the game. The walk up analogy was definitely my ah ha moment
    Plenty more though

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  7. Steven Tong

    ‘Page-turning’ content, professionally delivered

    Steven Tong

    I found Cris by accident through one of the YouTube teasers and even though I’m a level 0.5 beginner, the logic of what Cris was talking about resonated with me as someone from a science background.
    On buying the programmes, it was refreshing to have an app sitting on the iPad and it made it easier to progress through the content (which in itself is all worthwhile and eye-opening stuff).
    I think Cris is a really good presenter and you can see he is really passionate about his subject(s) and he makes it very easy to keep interested in the content, delivered in bitesized chunks.
    For the cost fuel and of a couple of sessions at Bristol’s “The Wave”, I have lots and lots of content that I can go back to again and again to help my dryside drilling so that when I do get into the water I can hopefully progress at a half decent rate.
    I am even getting to grips with a Carver and I never thought I would see myself as a skater!!!
    In summary: buy the programs, you won’t regret it.

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  8. Tim Guyton Elleriis

    Tim Guyton Elleriis

    Massive knowledge and nicely build. I have been on my carver for some years, but the program helped me focus on some details that i would not have othervise. Also it helps you with awareness and gives you focuspoints. I would highly recommend

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  9. Muzza McKuzza

    Muzza McKuzza

    The Cardboard Surfer program was fantastic, it’s easy to follow and has lots of ‘a-ha!’ moments. It has honestly improved my wave count and stoke!

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  10. Jake Bett

    The missing link

    Jake Bett

    I have been a UK based surfer for approx 10 years. I really started to focus about 5 years ago. The progress was steady but happening. I then stagnated until I started the cardboard surfer program. I realised for 9 years my stance was wrong! I was poo man. I was well known for my distinctive stance but I didn’t realise this signature move was also holding me back. After rewiring my pop-up with the walk up and being conscious of my stance after a few sessions I already feel that I have broken the plateau and on my way to my next goal. Bigger turns. Which co-incidentally the cardboard surfer program has given me some of the tools to help as well. I have followed Cris for years and really rate his work and I am glad I bought into his community!

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  11. Anthony Wainer

    Great theory and practice

    Anthony Wainer

    The perfect pop up program, walk up not pop up, has been great to help me finesse and improve my pop up , making it smoother and helping me to work out which bits of my physiology have been slowing me down and giving me stretches to work on them.

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  12. Richard Hassen

    Learn key concepts super fast!

    Richard Hassen

    Cardboard surfer changed my surfing and the way I understand how the body controls the board. Can’t recommend this enough.

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What You Need to Know About This Program.

  • You Don’t Even Know What Your Bad Habits Are

    Most Intermediate Surfers are “stuck” because their bad movement habits are halting their progression. You need a new lens and understanding of what GOOD surfing actually is. This program will give you a true awareness of surfing biomechanics. You can’t change anything if you don’t know what is Wrong, and what is Right.

  • It’s Your Body, Not the Board

    You need to STOP spending 1000’s of dollars on new surfboards. The board isn’t the problem, the way you move your body is the problem! This course will teach you the Fundamentals of surf movement so you can Actually Progress your surfing! Take the brakes of your surfing with GOOD technique.

  • Practice at Home Then Surf in the Water

    Do you think you’re actually going to correct your technique on the 4 waves you get, on your 1 weekend surf, for a total of 30seconds of actually standing on a surfboard? NOPE! You need a way to build repetition, to build motor memory, to FEEL the new patterns. This program is to your surfing like a driving range is to golf. Practice your surfing at home, build the pattern, become efficient, and then you can replicate it in the surf.

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What You Need for This Program

All you need is a willingness to improve your surfing, and a piece of cardboard about the size of a skateboard.

MEET THE GUY WHO’S TRYING TO
HELP YOUR SURFING…

Cris Surfing In Mentawais 2019

Cris Mills

On a daily basis I help people (predominantly surfers) improve performance, ranging from nutrition, to rehab, and sport specific training.

I know what a surfer needs to work on in order to maintain their interaction with the ocean (surfing). Not only from a personal standpoint, of being a freakish surf-addict who has an intention to keep charging, while also dealing with my own laundry list of injuries, but also having worked with countless surfers from rehab to skill development.

The intention is to keep surfing. In order to do that an individual’s perspective must shift to a focus on health and longevity. Your body is the vehicle through which you interact with the ocean. Keep yourself capable, and invest in your body, it’s movement capacity, it’s joint health, and it’s durability.

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The Most Comprehensive Surfing Training Programs Ever Created

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As soon as you get the programs you’ll realise how tremendous of a resource this truly is, and how you won’t need any other surf training programs. You can, and will, refer back to these programs for years to come. As long as you’re surfing you will be using these programs, I guarantee it.

This will change how you train and how you move your body. Ultimately it will help you with your surfing. 

These are the tools that guide your workouts, track your progress, and remove the guesswork from your workouts. Have confidence knowing you are doing the best possible workout..

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Our programs are proven to deliver results, but your effort, dedication, and consistency are key. We fully back our programs, app, and products with customer success stories and time-tested methods. Our Surf Athlete Academy offers a 7-Day Refund Guarantee—cancel or refund anytime (minus a small fee). The potential of your fitness and surfing is in your hands! What can your fitness and surfing become!?

Frequently Asked Questions

Absolutely, there are alternative and progressive movements for each level.

This is a digital program you will access via the Surf Athlete App, which can be downloaded in any app store. It is intended to be used via the app on your mobile device, our web-app which you can access on your desktop or laptop, or accessed on your iPad. You’ll register for the Surf Athlete App, given login information, and you can access your program whenever you want, wherever you want.

Here’s The Deal.

This program is amazing, and I know you’ll think it’s amazing, but just to make sure you’re confident in your purchase, I’m offering a 7 Day Guarantee.

If you use the program, and really USE it, and aren’t happy with the absolutely incredible and impactful content, then get in touch and we’ll arrange a refund.

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