The Perfect Surf Stance - Foot Position, Posture, & Better Surfing 

Yep! Me too lol

Stoked to hear that even your kid froths on my videos. Funny where people are willing or wanting to accept info.

thank you, I hoped it came across as clear and straight forward as possible.

Thank you 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒚, I appreciate it.

that's an amazing comment, thank you. I sincerely hope my work continues to help. we're all on surfing journey!

thank you arrigo, I appreciate it.

you're welcome, and thanks for watching

I'm glad to hear that, thank you.

You're welcome pedro, I hope it helps.

Great to hear!

thank you Veronica. currently editing a "how to read waves" video that should be up soon. thanks for watching my stuff!

Thanks Dan, I appreciate hearing that. I've been struggling to determine where I fit into this whole surf media / coaching realm, as I have a foot in rehab and training, and a foot in coaching, but I'm not an uber high performance surfer, nor an uber high performance coach. I think I fit into that realm of 30-50 yr olds who simply want to surf better and feel better.

@@SurfStrengthCoach I think you may have found your niche then! I did not start surfing until I was 34... and the biggest obstacle that I am in the process of overcoming is body pains/aches of not surfing correctly, which is how I landed on your RU-vid page. I want to make sure that as I develop my surfing techniques, that I do so the right way... to prevent future injury, pains, & aches while simultaneously improving my surfing.

hahah. one of the most epic comments I've gotten in quite some time.

you're welcome, thanks for watching

Thanks for the positivity 🙏🤘

Yeah (trying to) do carves like Ryan Knapton on a snowboard has definitely improved my cutbacks 100%

I imagine it carries over quite well to snowboarding. I haven’t done it much, but imagine much of the rotational aspects are somewhat similar.

you're welcome.

Once the poo man is realized, it can’t be unseen. Haha. It’s a visual plague.

I think it's Norfolk Island, possibly Anson Bay ... hopefully Cris will fess up one day soon!

My arms so short I can't carry my board under my arm, I have to carry it on my head. It sounds like you are looking down, which is totally wrong. Your body will follow your eyes. If you're looking down at your board, your head will drop. What's more, you'll then find it very difficult to look up from the downward dog pose. Your neck just can't stretch like that. So first, I would suggest keeping your eyes up throughout your takeoff from the moment you start paddling for a wave. (this is true for every aspect of surfing -- look where you want to go, and your board will follow.) Some surf tutorials say you need to arch your back and keep your head up high -- the so-called "banana" position -- but sometimes it's necessary to drop your head a bit to get some extra speed. If you just keep your eyes up, your chin will stay up. Then your body will follow. The other thing I recommend is just to COMMIT to it. Visualize this stance that he's teaching here. You want to get from lying prone on the board to this stance as quickly as possible. It doesn't have to be perfect--you often have to adjust your feet a bit after standing up, which helps control your direction and speed. But you have to get to a good balanced stance in the first place, otherwise those adjustments won't be as effective. BTW, I'm 66 and didn't take up surfing until I was 50. I can handle 4-6 feet waves OK, and that's where this question of commitment really begins to matter. If you hesitate, you lose.

yeah, pretty epic back drop huh!

Have you ever spent any time in a surf lineup? Well over half the people on shortboards still have a terrible stance. I’ve seen this across the world, California, Nicaragua, australia, Indonesia…. So apparently it’s not quite common knowledge as you seem to imply. This also comes from running coaching camps for 8 years now mostly with intermediates. A large majority of them have “stance” issues or limitations that need to be corrected.

​@@SurfStrengthCoach No need to drop your resume and measure sizes with me. I know shortboarders can improve, that's why I watched this video. Thinking you would be talking about fine tuning for speed and maneuvers, since you said it was for intermediate level and shortboarders. But this was a +10 minute video talking about one single wrong (and very rookie) stance. I can get that same advice in any other surfing video for absolute beginners... Keep doing your thing. I don't need to point the negatives, just the positives. Amazing video, great advice, I'm just not interested because I don't even know what a lineup is.

@@ivydune4185 a bizarre interaction no doubt, but that seems to be the norm for social media nowadays. speed generation is simply 1) having the right board for the wave and surfing the board where it's shape is intended to be surfed (big rocker boards need to be in the pocket). 2) learn to compress and extend appropriately and time it with the wave - you can watch good bowl skaters do this perfectly 3) the stance I apparently do a terrible job of elucidating allows you to use the front leg as a spring or a coil, compress and extend off that front leg and time it with unweighting. watch some videos of torren martyn or mikey February, they're flawless with wave reading and interaction. lastly, I didn't realize nor see where I declared it only for intermediates. It's intended for beginners and intermediates that are transitioning to shortboards.

@@SurfStrengthCoach From 3:45 to 3:50 Thank you for the reply.

@@ivydune4185 well damn, you're right... I'll delete the video then. probably best to get this trash info off the internet and quit misleading people and wasting their time :). I'm sure nobody that has watched this has gained any insight whatsoever. I'll delete it later today :)