Oceanside Surf Packages for Faster Progress
Oceanside Surf Packages Help for Faster Progress. The beginner surfer has to learn new techniques and it takes correct practice to make them solid muscle memory. Correct practice is the key.
Most beginner surfers find they are learning something in which their instincts are not helpful. In fact, their instincts are wrong. I give surfers a sequence and a count to say out loud in the water to get them past their natural instincts that lead to bad practices.
The Downside of Learning on Your Own
When students have learned on their own and often intermediate students who return for a tune up, we find they have slowly defaulted to bad practices. This is usually the pop up and stance on the surfboard. Most people want to ride the surfboard like a skate board with one hand trailing and butt over the rail. On a surfboard, this leads to falling off on the butt side.
The surfboard is designed to have weight equal on both sides of the middle stringer. The pop up is designed to get the body’s weight in the middle of the board and the front foot close to the nose of the board. The correct stance is standing as though one were pushing a tall box with both hands in front and one leg behind the other.
Learning the Two Pop Ups
There are two pop ups to get the right stance. The beginner pop up, although many pros use it, is to put one foot on the board and stand on it, lifting the hands so the other foot can reach the nose of the board. The advanced pop up is to move both feet at the same time so the hands are in the air when the feet land and the front foot is near the nose of the board. Both pop ups achieve the same stance.
The dry land lesson explains the pop up and students practice. They get it right on land. A surf lesson could end there if students could perform what they practiced in the water. They can’t. In the water, instincts take over and with the rush of the surf pushing the board, the surfer thinks they just have to stand up as fast as they can.
Slowing Down is Better
All surf students say they got better when they slowed down. The count that accompanies the sequence I teach is partly to slow students down and to place each step after the other. When students learn this, they are riding straight to the beach.
The other problem they encounter is doing it right every time. They often start out learning how to catch waves, pop up and ride and then they start to defaulting to bad habits. Slowly the timing and rhythm they learned becomes muddled as they stop counting and insert their own short cuts.
It takes as many practice sessions as necessary to instill the timing and rhythm as muscle memory and instincts. Advanced surfers have the right instincts and muscle memory. It took them time. Some beginners get it in the first lesson. Their problem may be they only surf once a year on vacation. Locals can practice what they learned and return for tune ups to get the right practices in place again.
A series of lessons helps cement the right practices into muscle memory so the surfer can advance to bigger waves. Small problems become exacerbated when waves get bigger because they are faster. A small problem on a foam wave can become a big problem on a real wave.
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