5 signs you're NOT FIT ENOUGH for surfing 

I’m also a physio and pretend to be a surfer.. but yes I agree with you. Also, the 3 min lumbar test is so arbitrary. Why 3 min? Where’s the evidence that supports a trivial 3 min lumbar extension against gravity will help determine spinal rotation injury incidence/prevention? With my two cents I’d recommend each person seek the advice of a licensed physio to determine fitness and personalized injury prevention program for surfing

He has several videos on fun shapes or "transitional boards."

Well not really. I’m searching for what strength should I need to have before surfing. then I found this video. It helps me on what areas of my body to improve first to prevent injuries.

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You can find lots of videos on RU-vid but you can better your ROM until a certain point, we all haver structural limitation. My ankle ROM is not big, and it's not that I'm not a trained guy (I'm a former athlete and Personal Trainer with post graduation in Therapeutic training), it's just my structure. Due to that I had to get stronger in other muscles to compensate and you also need to adapt your surfing/skating to your structure. If you try to copy someone with a huge ankle ROM you wont' be able.

@@matthiasbernardo2621 thanks for the clarification. In my case I have thicker bones, I have tried to step half foot away from wall and my heel has a few millimetres gap under. I have started surfing relatively late as my country of origin doesn’t have surfing. I am working at the moment on the right posture to achieve a decent bottom turn and so on. Realised how important is mobility in surfing. Luckily there are ppl like you guys out there to explain those things in detail. Thanks

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Te respondo en español porq es más fácil para mí. Vos traducilo: - Para el primero tenés que elongar los músculos gemelos (eso permite ganar rango de movilidad en el tobillo). - Para el segundo tenés que elongar los abdominales y reforzar la musculatura de los espinales. - Para el tercero tenés que elongar los músculos del cuello como muestra en el minuto 4:14. Es importante sostener el hombro que tiende a moverse (para que no se mueva) y mantener el torso en general quieto (que sólo gire o se incline la cabeza). Cualquier elongación de cuello hacerla más suave y con delicadeza que el resto de los músculos. - Para el cuarto tenes que trabajar la elongación de las distintas porciones musculares del hombro: porción frontal, lateral y posterior. (Buscá ejercicios de elongación de hombro según la porción a trabajar). - Para el quinto tenés que hacer lo mismo que en el segundo pero haciendo más hincapié en la RESISTENCIA de los musculos espinales (no tanto hincapié en el nivel de musculatura de los mismos). Para poder soportar la posición de cabeza erguida y espalda curvada que sostenemos cuando remamos y demás. Te explica ejercicios en el video. Eso es todo, cualquier consulta decime. 🤙🏽🇦🇷

I been following Kale for some time already, Check on his channel “Ultimate mobility routine” there’s really nice videos on exercises everywhere, try to do constant mobility exercises every day will improve your surf. 🤙

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