Beginner Surfer Pop Up to Advanced Pop Up
New surfers can progress from the Beginner Surfer Pop Up to the Advanced Pop Up. It takes practice with the beginner pop up and as surf specific muscles and techniques improve, the advanced pop up becomes easier.
The beginner starts with the beginner pop up because it utilizes the strengths he should have before doing any surfing. The advanced pop up requires too much strength and technique for the beginner.
The Beginner Pop Up
The essence of the beginner pop up is it uses the strength of one leg to stand up. The essence of the advanced pop up is it requires gymnastic like full body strength. Both are effective on foam and real waves and many professionals do a good form of the beginner pop up.
The beginner pop up begins with catching the foam wave and then putting both hands in a man’s push up flat on the board next to the rib cage. We want to avoid putting hands on the rails and going from catching a wave to putting hands in front of the shoulders and being in an already full push up. The beginner stops for a second with chest still on the board in the man’s push up position.
Next, he pushes up. This sequence is the same for beginner and advanced pop ups, foam waves or 20-foot waves. The beginner popup has the surfer now brining a foot up the board to be placed flat on the board under his butt. Many beginners do not have the flexibility to get this foot three feet from the tail and flat. This is the foot the surfer will stand up on. If the foot is not under the butt and flat, the surfer cannot stand up in the water.
As the surfer stands on the one foot, he lifts his hands from the board. This is necessary or the surfer cannot get the other foot to the front of the board. A big mistake beginners make is keeping both hands on the board as they place their front foot. Because the hands are blocking the front foot, it sits behind the hands on the back of the board. The surfer’s head is in front of his feet and he flies off the nose.
Getting the Stance on the Board Correct
As the surfer stands, his torso is upright and his weight is equal on both front and back leg. His hips and shoulders are parallel to the beach. He cannot have a hand or shoulder slanting to the tail of the board. This will cause his weight to be on one rail and he falls off the butt side of the board.
The advanced pop up puts the surfer in the identical stance. The difference is the surfer pops both feet at the same time. Some surfers pop as they push up. Others push up first and then pop. This seems to be the more efficient pop up but many pros can be seen to put a back foot on the board first and then the front foot. Both pop ups work fine.
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