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Hey everyone! If you're interested in progressing you're surfing feel free to check out Longboard Sessions at longboardsessions.com/ yewwww!!!

great vid ben! love the crossover with Brian. I need to surf more often in bad waves - should not be a problem in NJ 🤣

Hi Ben, you and Brian have taught me all I know about surfing. Been watching you guys for a year now and super pumped that you two are collaborating. You guys took me from catching 0 waves to absolutely ripping my home break. I just wanted to say thanks. You guys are the best

Just catching up here on surf videos as we head into late summer season here in the USA, so cool that two of my favorite LB channels met somewhere in the middle last year at HB. Thanks for bringing this to us from abroad, and enjoy your world travels!🌎

GREAT VIDEO! THANK YOU BROTHER

All very good points, thanks man, I'm in Florida , so this is pretty much our summer surf if we're lucky!

Cool concept. Definitely have negative vibes when you see bad surf. Great breakdown for Longboard comp surfing. Keep learning and stay psyched 😎🤙

this looks a LOT like the gulf of Mexico in Florida. We have crap surf most days and you really do need to know how to make the most of it otherwise you will almost never surf. The waves are either small and vertical and break fast and hard or they are soft and mushy and it can be a challenge to generate enough speed and glide to even catch much less surf well. They also tend to be shifty and will often change directions right before the wave reaches you making it nearly impossible to line up for a wave. They sandbars change constantly and they dredge the beaches every couple of years to add sand and make it longer which essentially destroys the break.

Bon voyage Ben, may the waves be kind & fun!

Spot on and point #1 and #3 are something I learned the hard way during the last year. At a certain point I was discouraged so much I wasn't able to make long rides with sections constantly closing in front of me without me being able to achieve absolutely nothing aside from popping up. Watching other surfers surfing even shittier conditions made me rethink about what I was doing and eventually reconsider my expectations. What I realised is surfing is always a matter of compromises and negotiation with the wave: so if I went out to practice snaps or re-entries on choppy, mushy, on-shore condition well... good luck to me. Also I was expecting the wave to do its job, but when conditions are sub-par the surfer has to compensate for the lack of power. This means having a fast entry paddling into the wave, a quick popup and a good setup of the inside rail from the get go is crucial and it's the key factor that can make or break your ride. You will not have a lot of opportunities and where I surf when conditions are bad to the point you've maybe room for one manoeuvre either in the only section available or when the wave closes out. Another important aspect is wave selection: when conditions are average to good, you can get away with pretty much whatever wave you choose because the chances of getting something surfable outweighs the odds of getting a really bad one. But in poor to awful conditions, you want to be extremely nitpicky and I found out this improved my ability to read the ocean and understand how the wave will behave before it breaks. I'm far away from being perfect in any of the things I mentioned, in fact I'm a low intermediate, but at least I'm confident about the fact the 99% of the time it's not the wave: it's me. Cheers! 🤙

Love the collab you guys are doing!

Hi Ben, another great video. Longboard Sessions looks great and I'll be signing up. 😊 yew

Hey Ben, another great video with so important knowledge every surfer should inhale. Also, welcome to Europe 😎☀️🌊

Ty. Very helpful since i live in so cal. Heading to HB

Well, there are some places where the waves are uncooperative as a rule. I like to think of it as a paddling exercise.

How do we take advantage of surfing a longboard in head + waves. It's murder getting out, but paddling speed helps! Getting in early also helps.

any tips on popping up further back towards the tail? I usually pop up more towards the middle.