How New Surf Students Improve
Many beginners wonder How New Surf Students Improve. There are many ways to learn and opportunities to improve personal conditioning to become a better surfer.
Twelve years ago when I moved to the beach in Oceanside and began surfing every day, I also was learning everyday. I watched videos, read books, and watched surfers. I decided what I wanted to learn and found a way to learn it.
Ways to Improve Your Surfing
When new students watch other surfers, they often wonder how do I do that. As I said you can watch video of the trick or maneuver you want to learn. I asked surfers how they did certain things. What surprised me is many advanced surfers would say, “I don’t know, I just do it”.
As I learned more, I realized that advanced surfers couldn’t teach new surfers. They had forgotten what it is like to start new. I learned what new students have to begin with and then how to teach them in the simplest way.
The beginning techniques are the basics of advanced surfing. The new techniques have to be learned correctly. I have seen so many surfers who didn’t start correctly and have difficulty progressing.
Learning to catch foam waves is not difficult. Where students need assistance is getting from the prone position on the surfboard to the proper stance. Beginners have to wind up with feet shoulder width apart and the hips and shoulders facing square to the front.
The snowboard position which I call when one hand is trailing and one is in front places the surfers weight on the butt side rail. Both hands have to be in front and the shoulders square to the front. This is the beginners biggest failing point. Once you are not riding correctly on the board, you can’t ride for long and can’t improve.
If you are falling off the surfboard, you can bet your stance is not correct. A beginners should ride straight to the beach on a foam wave without much difficulty. Then he can paddle out to bigger foam waves and real waves.
Once the surfer hits real waves, this is where advanced learning begins and he should incorporate all the learning sources I mentioned above. Be patient, get fit, and be a learner.
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