Cardboard Surfer
Start Surfing With Style, Technique And Confidence
By The End Of The Program, You Won’t Even Recognise Your Previous Surfing
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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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.
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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.
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HELP YOUR SURFING…
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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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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Daniel Grainger –
Comprehensive, step-by-step guide to becoming a better surfer. Changed my surfing.
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Tom Mcnatt –
After moving a bit further from the ocean where I could not surf multiple times a week, I started noticing a decline in the quality of my surfing. After reading reviews I gave this and the Surf Skate programs a try. The instruction is super easy to follow. The drills are easy to do. I absolutely saw an improvement in my surfing. Have been using the drills a couple times a week to stay on top of things and it’s still helping out. Give it a shot!
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Eric Lalaurie –
I want to leave a review, I just don’t know where to start! I’ll give it a go anyway…
For years I’ve been struggling with my pop-up, which has been very inconsistent especially in more challenging surf. I attribute my plateauing at the low end of the intermediate surfer spectrum to it. This made for very frustrating sessions at times. And a failed surf trip in Samoa, ironically probably close to the top of my surfing form. Scouring the internet I just kept getting conflicting info on the proper way to pop up. Starting with the chicken wing and then becoming convinced I had to jump on my two feet. Method for which I don’t have the required core strength and flexibility. And for context, I’m 38 and I have some legacy minor lower back issues.
I discovered the cardboard surfer on Instagram, by following you and then Clayton, and just couldn’t wait to get the full course. I can only say that while I’m still not a great surfer, my pop-up (well my walk-up) is at least 5 times more consistent and I enjoy my surfs a lot more simply by making more waves.
I also get more and more of these “aha” moments on waves, keeping up with it with a cardboard slide or the realization that arms up and front/coffee cup do wonder for stability and turns.
And to top it up you keep updating the programs with refreshed and new content!
So a big thank you, and I hope I’ll be able to redeem that failed Samoan trip at some point!
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Dave Pettit –
It has shown me results, session after session in the surf. That feeling is addictive!!
This program has been extremely helpful in identifying and clearing out those bad habits (you know the ones that hinder progress only after realizing feeling it in the water) and also gaining body awareness. This brings out results in;giving confidence from land traininglooking for & feeling out the power zones of the wavegliding across and making the section or overtaking drop-in’sdrawing out turns with REAL lean and holding the rail engaged back to the power zone still high on the face
I feel these are the results from your program, your App updates keep it fresh.I can recommend the program as applying to real-life surfers all in the preparation in chasing and dialing in for THAT wave, whatever the conditions.
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Sam –
I can’t recommend these programs enough. The stretching, the techniques and the exercises are so beneficial, and all taught/ explained in a simple way that is easy to get your head around!
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G E –
Pay attention, practice, implement and your improvement is certain. You’ll get insights that’ll take years or that you might never get trying to figure it yourself.
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Jacob Randles –
I bought this program after reading “nosupermanchris’s” review on Reddit. After 10 years of paddling out, my surfing felt like it was in a rut. Time watching You Tube videos was helpful, but I found many of the drills for increasing skill only marginally transferable to my time in the line-up.
The program is well put together. It starts with reviewing core concepts before moving onto drills. The program is broken down into a series of lessons that all build off of each other. After 2 weeks of doing the program I began noticing a difference in my surfing. Although I do not do the cardboard drills as often as I should anymore, my turns feel better and my ability to maintain control while popping up has increased significantly.
$127 for a program that will improve you surfing better and cheaper than a new board or fins is well worth the investment.
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Dylan Verburgt –
The video’s on the “walk-up” blew my mind and made me completely retrain myself from ‘popping’ up . This tip alone makes the course entirely worth it.
I’m a big fan of body mechanics, reminds me of learning to perfect throwing a fastball, and Clayton does a great job breaking down each component of fundamental surf mechanics. I wish I watched this many years ago.
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Joe Bigsby –
The content and products are great. I have been utilizing many of the programs and have truly benefited from these great resources. Since first watching the programs on youtube and now investing in the product, I have noticed that my surfing has improved, my body mechanics have improved and I have improved mobility even when I am not surfing. I have so much to learn but am stoked to keep learning as much as I can through these programs. Thanks again.
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Martina Hofmair –
The cardboard surfer is a FINE program which gives a lot of good insights to surf technique. It has reasonable explainations why you should move this way (lunge) or not (squat). With a lot of helpful ideas (coffee cup) it´s easy to practice and doing the right moves. I have no idea how many surfers can surf poo stance, when you know it´s wrong.
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Deirdre O’Reilly –
I got 3 massive takeaways that have completed changed my surf stance and speed generation. I’ve been surfing 20 years the wrong way and have attended many surf camps around Europe over the years where this wasn’t corrected. Chris is a brilliant teacher and the visual cues really stick when you go out in the water.
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Michael Shelley –
It would have been cool if someone told me to point my hips forward like 20 years ago. It’s been hard transition but it’s a game changer.
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