SURFER PATH
The Journey to better surfing, and doing it for the rest of our lives.
IMPROVE YOUR PADDLING
Here are the 3 key steps for endless paddling endurance and improved technique:
Paddling Efficiency – 2 Simple Tweaks
A Few Fundamentals of Paddling Please STOP making these mistakes 🛑 After being involved with coaching trips for years now, many of these “basics” seem to be overlooked by the intermediate spectrum of surfers and the beginner group.. A few simple tweaks can make some big changes to your paddling efficiency. Positioning, posture, tensioning, pubic…
Paddling Endurance and Posture for Surfers
Better Paddling Endurance and Improved Posture for Surfers Surfing shouldn’t really be called surfing. A more appropriate name would be something along the lines of: lots of paddling around and occasionally standing up and surfing. That’s why paddling endurance for surfers is so essential. I have no doubt you understand exactly where I’m coming…
How To Improve Your Paddling and Posture
Florida got some damn good surf in mid-February. It was the first time I’ve surfed in about 2months (since getting back from Indo). It was a solid 4-5foot swell hitting central Florida, super-fun, but did require a fair bit of effort, and had some heavy sweep. I was pretty damned surprised at how quickly I was getting worn…
How to Improve Your Surf Paddling With These Workouts
What you do in the gym strengthens the foundations of athleticism. These foundations allow you to work on and improve your skill in the water. Surfing will always be the best thing to do in order to get better at surfing. Bottom line. And to surf better you have to Improve Surfing Paddling. But, gym-time…
Surf Paddling Workout – Endurance
Surf Paddling Workout-Endurance Surf paddling workout: We’ve all had that feeling at one point, when all you can see is whitewater and oncoming sets, and your arms feel like they can’t move, you’re trying to paddle but you don’t seem to be progressing forwards, and that damn burn in your arms and shoulders just won’t…
THE PERFECT POP UP
The key steps, the technique, the fitness, and the stretches to make your pop up fluid, flawless, and dependable.
How To Fix Your Pop Up for Surfing
Failed over the falls fumbles? Or fluidly smooth to your feet transitions to effortless down-the-line surfing? There’s a big difference between the two, both physically and mentally. One is the catalyst for stylish and enjoyable surfing, while the other is the stuff of failure, frustration, and embarrassment. Generally, surfers don’t consider the pop-up, until it’s…
The Secrets of the Perfect Surf Pop Up
Fix Your Pop Up A skilled, fluid, and effortless movement, or a fumble and flail towards kookdom. If your pop up is in the fumble and flail category, then this post is a mandatory read on your path to better surfing. The Pop Up: It is a movement that is either unconsidered by those that…
How to Improve Your Pop Up
EXERCISE FOUNDATIONS If you can get to your feet quickly, and with no real faults, you’ve probably never actually considered what it takes to get to your feet, or how to improve your surf pop up. If you fumble around and clumsily get to your feet, pulling that one foot at a time maneuver, you’ve…
How To Improve Your Pop Up.. Surf Training
Surf Training – Pop Ups – Core & Upper Body Do you think your Pop-Ups could be faster? They probably could be, especially if you’re surfing some faster “reefy” type waves, or even if you’re just starting out and getting the hang of popping up to your feet. I get asked quite often about Pop-up…
Surf Fitness Pop Up Training
Learn How To Do A Pushup… Then PopUp Surf-Fitness is all about building a stronger body so you can do what makes you happy in life, and do it better… surfing. Your surf fitness training had better have some type of pressing training, and for more carryover to our sport, throw in some pushups to…
ESSENTIAL SURF SKILLS
The must-know techniques for stylish surfing, feel-good flow, and putting a stop to the dreaded poo-man stance.
Mastering the Wave Pool: Essential Tips for First-Timers at URBN Surf
The first time at a wave pool It was an unforgettable experience for me. It felt like a trial by fire – from moments of awe-inspiring “wow, this is epic” to humbling thoughts of “have I ever surfed before… I suck!” But that’s what makes wave pools so captivating; they offer an incredible opportunity to…
How To Read Waves
How To Read Waves, Catch More Waves, and Have More Shred Time Surfing, at its true essence, is a body of energy (our human electric body), interacting with a moving wave of energy being dispersed through a liquid medium. Meditate on that for a few minutes. Atoms of vibrating energy, interacting with one another to…
The Perfect Surf Stance
*What is the perfect surf stance? One aspect that can be easily agreed upon is the fact it is NOT the dreaded poo man or poo wo-man stance. But why is that? What makes the unfortunately common poo-man stance, which plagues the beginner and intermediate realm of surfers, so drastically inefficient? And why is it…
How To Catch More Waves at New Surf Spots
Read the Waves, Learn the Lineup, and Position Yourself to Catch More Waves New surf spots can be a daunting experience, but they don’t have to be. Wanna learn how to catch more waves? With a bit of good surf etiquette, wave knowledge, ocean awareness, and taking into account the politics and pecking order of…
How To Bottom Turn Surf Skate Training
To turn, or not to turn, that is the question. Precision and flow, or bog and stall? A thing of grace and potential power, or a wobbly stomp tail flail to the flats. This is a simple process and a few concepts on how you can practice your Bottom Turn on a Surf Skate, create…
MOBILITY & STRENGTH
Surfing is movement and physically demanding. How well do you move?
Mobility Drills – More Fluid Surfing
Can you twist? Are you a fluid spiral 🧬, or a disjointed stiff immobile cemented human? Whether you need some loosening and improved “flexibility”, or you’re just after some feel-good movements to undo surf session induced tensions, give these a crack. From an evolutionary perspective, the human body is made to rotate. Gait (walking) is…
How To Surf Forever and Surf Recovery Methods
You pay to play; that’s the importance of surf session recovery. It’s all inputs and outputs. The yin yang of life. This rings true with exceptional loudness and clarity as the years continue to pass by and a life well lived accumulates its injuries and aches. I speak about this often with clients that I…
Home Surf Training – Corona Lockdown
Surf Workouts at Home Does Corona have you on lockdown? If so, here’s a bunch of Surf Workouts at Home Yeah, a Netflix binge is good here and there (Tiger King is mental!), but this downtime is also a great opportunity to stay on top of your fitness. Assuming you’ve got kids, and they’re home…
How To Improve Your Surf Fitness Training
It’s not just standing on wobble boards. What “surf fitness training” means to me is taking a realistic look at the movement requirements of the sport, and then taking an honest appraisal at your own strengths and weaknesses. Then it comes down to filling the gaps with smart and efficiently applied training. Here’s some higher…
Dynamic Surfer Stretches – Full Warmup
A Full Sequence of Mobility Dills & Dynamic Surfer Stretches. It’ll Help You Move Fluidly. Movement: Dynamic flexibility, the capacity to be mobile through joints, and to move with ease, control, and strength. It’s pretty relevant to this whole surfing thing we take part in. It’s not going to suddenly make you rip, but it’s a…
BREATH & MINDSET
Your mind is the most important aspect for surf progression.
Breath Training for Surfers
Training for Surfers to Breathe Better… It’s Important… Breath Training for Surfers. Your life depends on it. Literally. This rings especially true for surfers. If you’ve ever been in a hold-down situation, you know the fear, the anxiety, and that instinctual need for breath that kicks in. The freaking out, the chaotic kicking and paddling for…
Breath Enhancement Training for Surfers
Breath Training for Surfers with B.E.T. B.E.T. – Breath Enhancement Training Nam Baldwin is a smart guy, and has so much professional experience it’s astounding. If the worlds’best surfers are learning from the guy, then I’m without a doubt going to jump on an opportunity to learn from him as well. I recently did…. and it…
Can You Breathe? – Proper Breathing Will Help Everything!
CATCH YOUR BREATH!! Breath for Surfers: Improper breathing will wreck your shoulder girdle, induce fatigue while paddling out, and set off a chain of potential negative events. These are all things you don’t want! So train yourself to 1) Breathe properly – diaphragmatically 2) learn how to breathe calmly even when exerting yourself or performing…