For anyone who may be looking for any longboard coaching video analysis, we're getting things up and running and I'd be stoked to assess and set up a plan for what you're looking to improve on! If you are at all interested please feel free to email at longboardcoaching@outlook.com Cheers everyone! Ben 🤙
Another Great video Ben, Definitely plenty of lightbulb moments for me. The twisting of the torso towards each side of paddle stroke will give me greater stroke depth. I always thought I had to keep the torso from moving side to side. It makes sense to keep the weight on the chest and lean into each stroke. I do stop paddling hard as the wave is lifting me up and I agree that this is the worst thing to do when catching waves. I often feel like I’m trying to chase down waves to try and drop down the face, to pop up (late) as I hardly ever glide into waves. Anyhow I’m going to watch your video again & again until I re train the brain to use these techniques at the appropriate time in the water. Thanks so very much
I watch all of your videos. Epic, as usual! Many thanks 😊 especially from most of us where splashing around is a reward after a hard, hard week. After nine months of working two jobs and not being able to surf or exercise, I found that I could’t catch a wave. I watched every paddling, and many swimming and muscle building tutorials. After a year of training, found myself with friends in head high surf with my log out really deep, no leash. Couldn’t enter too critical or too flat. Waited for perfectly building wave, scratched away, caught it and road it to shore. Then stayed inside, caught a couple, got thrashed and just had fun. When you have a free moment 😀(you’re busy)please walk us through the pop-up variations. John 3:16
No worries at all Lance! Great to hear you were able to get back out there and get into some waves!! Surfings a great escape glad you're able to be back into it! No worries - will keep a pop-up variations video in the mix for the future, yewww!!! Thanks so much Lance - 🤙🙏
I've been looking at hours of videos since 1.5y I started surfing, and I do find your explanation really thorough and on point! Eager to go back in the water and try them out
I've only been surfing for 5 weeks now. This has been a really helpful video. I look forward to implementing your suggestions into my surfing practice tomorrow.
Beginner here. Have seen a ton of video. Your channel has been the best and clarified many questions and problems for me. Ordered some merch (which I have no business wearing near a beach…Ha) and Subscribed
Hey!!! So so stoked its been helpful for you, always the best to hear! Thanks so much for reaching out, letting me know, and stoked to send you your product! I should be able to send out to you this Thursday!!! Thanks again for getting in touch, yewww!!! 🙏🤙
Some good tips here🙏but positioning and reading the wave are arguably more important than the paddle. If done correctly you really don’t even need to paddle to catch the wave. And submerging your tail into the wave to generate forward momentum is an easy trick to catch even more waves❤❤
I hope it helps!! Have definitely found it super useful to get in the habit of checking and adjusting the paddle in terms of direction and speed depending on what the waves doing behind you! No worries at all! Yewww 🙏🤙
Over paddling is something I realised I was doing. My take is, you can't catch a wave, the wave catches you and you decide if it does that in a way that allows you to ride it with control.
Finally got my first proper hang 5 yesterday, then my second this morning, and 3rd, 4th, 5th. Been watching the tips and tricks for a while and was reflecting on a few of your videos about noseriding and clearly somethings clicked 🙂
Yewwww so good!! 👏🙌 Always so good to hear, stoked you have had something click - enjoy the tip time!! Would love to know what you feel helped to progress , cheers Daniel and well done!! 🤙
A combination of placing a little pressure on the inside rail whilst cross stepping up the board as well as thinking about widening the stance and “poking” out the front foot with more of a straighter leg. And then also trying to slow everything down a touch so I wasn’t just going full send every time 😂 @@BenConsidine
Ben, thank you! This video clearly explained all the issues and questions I have had with catching waves. This morning the “cobra” technique helped me tremendously. Question-where do we place our hands when pushing up? I found pushing off the deck worked well. When gripping the rails on take off, my hands would frequently slip down and off the board and I would miss the wave. Thanks✌️
No worries at all! That's a pretty common one, getting some footage of yourself is best to remedy that so you can identify why the knee is hitting! if it was ever something you wanted/needed i do surf analysis coaching where I help people with this kind of thing, my email is longboardcoaching@outlook.com , only if that's something you're after though! Video analysis can be super handy for yourself to review as well! :) Cheers!
Love your videos bro. Quick suggestion: the audio volume varies alot throughout many of your videos. Doing a little audio work to equalize the volume and clarity of your voice can really step up the overall production quality of your videos.
Hey Johan!! I really appreciate that thanks!! It was definitely not great in this one I agree, sometimes when you’re editing you get used to hearing everything over and over again and it’s harder to recognise, but when I watched it back I can definitely tell what you mean, I really appreciate that though. I think I used headphones to edit as well which may have caused some problems!? Haha 🤙🤙🙏
@@BenConsidine I must say your explanation for the different techniques are very easy to follow so thank you. I've always thought to keep my upper body still when paddling but am going to try your advice on the next surf.
Very informative, but a lot of videos have not mentioned what should our lower body does on a short board when paddling. I know legs and feet have to be kept together but what about our knees? Should they touch the board and push down? Or just let them float in the water? I feel wobbling if the knees are not touching the board, but if touching, the weight distribution changed and the board tilted and created drag.
I'm confused: @ 5:10 "it's also important to understand that the pressure on the chest here will make the board go faster as well, especially on a longboard, this is why you'll see the chest go down more as we're struggling to get into waves"
Brilliant - love the format of having tips broken up by skill level as most of us are somewhere in between and it helps to know what we should be comfortable with (in the early levels) vs what we should start thinking ahead to (of the more advanced). Had the best day in a while today after watching your vid over my breakfast. Cheers from nyc 🤙
Thanks, I needed this today. These are all good details and things I think about when out on the waves watching other surfers, and I’m sure I’ll rewatch and study as your videos are immensely helpful in assessing my own progress and developing my understanding. So keep up the good work, Ben.🤙
I had a stroke 4 yesterday ago, I'm now 68yrs old. I have been looking for a video to help me get up on my boards again but, I've been frustrated and bored with a lot of these online. I've just subscribed to your site Ben because I've been trying now for two yrs and not been able to pop up correctly due to limited mobility but I'm almost there, you're video has just shown me exactly where I'm going wrong, I'm now practising on the floor (in the North West of the UK) and have made rapid progress almost immediately. I no cannot wait to get in the water to try. I'll update you soon and thank you for this video, best regards Bernard Ryan 🫡🤙
