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Hey Wayne!! Oh epic - definitely understand that with my background I certainly focus on the longboard side of things a bit more + beginner-intermediate surfing, stoked you're hopping on the longboard a bit now though too and hope you find these useful!!! Always after ideas so if there's anything I can help with please let me know :) yewww!!!

Yeah 100% - if popping up in steeper conditions no need to pop all the way through to the middle because we need to engage the tail right away, so I like to say front foot should come as far forwards as about where the hips are placed when you’re lying down and the back foot just a little forward from the fin 🙂🤙🤙

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Epic so glad you’re getting something from them!! 🙏🤙 yewwww!!!

Love that idea getting the pros and experts in certain manouvres and having them give the 2 cents on how they approach it and their advice/recommendations, given me something to think about its just about how to organise that!!! Really appreciate both suggestions! yewww!!! 🙏🙏🤙

Yewww yeah Anthony! How goods that! Great job for getting our there and getting to your feet in your first sessions - doesn't always happen like that (from experience haha) so epic job! Yewww go for it and keep us updated!! Yewww 🙏🤙🤙

I think I know what you mean there!! I think its about quick and precise engagement of the rail and tail straight off the pop-up, then using your body and the fixed point that your board needs to act around - would be great to do something on that really appreciate the suggetsion!!! Yewww! 🙏🙏🤙

It's 100% the one thing that's driven the biggest change in my surfing over past few months! Its rare these days I find a new approach that changes things so significantly, has helped my turns go from too much push and feeling sticky to faster and more dynamic, stoked!!!

Yewww epic so glad you're finding it useful, really appreciate the kind words, yewww!!! 🤙🙏

Epic!!! So stoked that you find it useful, I know my drawing is shocking haha but its how I like to learn as well and I use it all the time coaching face to face so I'm glad its helpful in this format as well!! Thanks so much for the kind words stoked its all helpful :) If there's anything in particular you're looking to learn let me know, yewww!!🙏🙏🤙

Im not sure haha 😂

Thanks so much!!! yeww!

Really appreciate that, so stoked its helpful, let me know if there's anything I can cover to help out!! 🙏🤙🤙🤙

Yeah epic!!! So glad you like the shorter ones, I felt like the one I posted 3-4 weeks ago (25 mins) was too long and would have lost a lot of peoples attention, last few have been shorter which I hope is more digestable - totally understand and agree with what you're saying - I rarely watch anything 25 mins long haha 😂 - really appreciate the feedback!!! 🤙🙏

Yeah interesting! I would say I agree - if by drive you're meaning hold and control through a turn? love messing around with this sort of stuff!

Haha 😂 embarrassing its very subconscious haha

Hey Tom! So stoked its helpful for you! Yeah can definitely think about integrating your above points into a video! Really good thing to touch on especially for those of us with mainly beachies around haha If you don't mind me asking (just very handy for me to have this feedback haha) with the music, whiteboard, and speaking is it all going a bit fast - would it be better to slow things down or simplify the points a bit more? I'm always trying to strike a balance between too much info but not limiting information either. Or is it simply the music and illustrations can be annoying haha and it would be more helpful to have myself just talking through things (or I could work on my artwork 😂) - definitely dont have to respond, but really appreciate the feedback!! 🙏🙏🤙

@@BenConsidine from my perspective, the last 4 videos with the whiteboard have progressively improved immensely, to the point where you're now hitting the mark pretty well. I feel you have struck the right balance in terms of pace, detail of information, background music and whiteboard illustrations of key points. For me, the whiteboard has been adding value to communicating the messages, especially these past few soft-skills videos where dynamic diagrams help to portray the points. In these cases, using the whiteboard is much better than if you were to try and verbally describe the concepts without the illustrative support of the whiteboard; we'd be lost! For other videos, the whiteboard may not add value (I'm sure you'll know when and where it is useful). If anything, you could maybe do with a slightly bigger whiteboard so you can fit the shoulder of the wave on there etc 😉 and it occupies a bigger part of the panned-out screen (although your zooming in on the whiteboard works really well anyway). You could edit through much of the text writing sections (headings etc), so you can take your time writing neatly (and spelling 😜) and we don't have to waste time just watching you write stuff. I notice you've already started doing this anyway. Good question about the amount of information and pace of delivery. Hard to find the sweet spot. The benefit of UA-cam videos is that we can pause, rewind and rewatch the material as much as we want, so the pace is not such a big issue for me. In terms of content/information, I personally could watch your videos for hours on end, trying to learn and absorb as much information as possible, especially when there are no waves. This has actually helped my surfing a lot over the past two years. However, I have also learnt that I should only watch one of your videos at a time, before then going for a surf and trying to implement/consider the content of that video (ideally a few surf sessions per video); otherwise it all gets lost and forgotten when in the surf. There's only so much one can take on board and try and work on. In this regard, I also find that 3 key take home points per video are probably the max before it becomes overload and things start to get lost or overwhelming when it comes to implementation. If anything, I try and focus on one thing each surf session (if I can). The challenge for you is the fact that you have surfers of all abilities tuning in and taking different things out of it. Some videos are on more fundamentals which were useful when I was a beginner and a simplified message is great, but less useful to me now. As we progress, then we start focusing on the details and the one percenters etc. As such, you'll never be able to please everyone, but I suppose mixing it up over time will enable people at a range of levels take something out of your videos. One approach could be to continue the "3 part" series concept, and progressively build upon the level of detail and technical ability with each part, from a fundamentals beginner Part 1, building to an intermediate Part 2 and then bringing it all together, finessing the details, in a more advanced final part (for example, this could work really well for nose riding, or cross-stepping, or turning). All easier said than done, I'm sure 😂. Anyway Ben, these are my thoughts. Sorry for chewing up space, but you did ask for feedback 😛. No doubt others will have different experiences and perspectives, but these are my own. Moreover, keep it up and thanks for so generously sharing your knowledge with us all 🤙🏽

P.S. for me, 10 to 15 minute video length is good. 15 minutes max in most cases.

It does depend a fair bit on where you're at. But my general recommendations (like I would use generally for coaching) would be the 9'6-9'8 mark and going a bit wider towards a 23 1/2 I think - where we can find a lot of stability. Sometimes more importantly though can be things like wide point positioning - anything below the advanced stages I find we're really asissted a lot with a wide point in the middle board or 'pill shaped' board - then wide point back for further advanced progressions potentially later on (this is me not knowing you're ability level though haha) - I hope that somewhat helps!!

It depends - I usually find feet up IF we're using them correctly to geenrate drive and momentum to be no problems, for people I'm getting to use the toes to press off from on the pop-up ill ensure their toes come onto the board before popping up to set the toes in the right position. In steeper waves where we don't need to generate so much speed and power with the paddle, it would be more ideal to leave the feet lower :)

Yeww thats epic so stoked you're finding them helpful!!! Really appreciate the kind words as well, yewww!!! 🙏🙏🤙

No worries at all! Okay no worries thanks for the feedback, trying to add a bit of colour so me talking for so long isn’t too boring haha, I’ll explore some alternatives!! Really appreciate it 🙏

Haha epic, I hope it was helpful 🙏🙏🤙

Nop worries Kerry! I hope you found it useful :) 🙏🤙

Yewww epic so glad you found it useful Nathan!!! Reallyt appreciate the kind words, will keep them coming haha!! Let me know if there's anything else I can dive into in the vids for you, yewww!!! 🙏🤙🤙

@@BenConsidine just watched the cross stepping video too. Damn so much gold here! Thanks so much. Keep em coming

Thanks Peter!! Always gotta be on the lookout haha, make sure Tom doesn’t take your waves 😂 haha

Thanks so much John!! Really appreciate that haha, really liked and enjoyed making this one will have to do more like it in the future!! Cheers, yewww!! 🙏🙏🤙

If I understand correctly you can do both! The angled takeoff is easier and will make it so you angle your board before getting to your feet and therefore reduce the likelihood of nosediving, but the straight takeoff will allow you to stay more critical in the pocket, but will mean nosediving is easier so we need to be quick and popping up/turning in the right place and time. I hope thats somewhat helpful!!! 🙏🤙

Yeww cheers!!! Hope it’s helpful 🙏🤙

Thanks so much John!!! 🙏🤙

Thanks so much!! Hope it’s somewhat useful!! 🙏🤙

Hey!!! Yeah it can be confusing haha, good paddling technique is typically legs still, to generate more drive in your paddling for waves though we can actually rotate the body slightly as we pull through the water to generate more power and depth of paddle, and with this we kick the opposite leg which seems to help rock the body to that side of the rail and place more pressure into the chest on the board vs having the legs still. So its definitely something to playt around with - its a progression I give poeple to develop more power with their paddle ONCE their standard padding technique is looking good, we can definitely become limited by never moving the legs in this way haha. I hope thats somewhat helpful!!! 🙏🤙

No worries at all Jason!! Hope you’re getting a bit out of them 🙂🙏🤙

Haha yep.... super annoying

Yesss, thats typical at my home break , I'm often on a longboard or Glider even in big surf and sit outside a whole bunch of short boarders, ...I always let half a dozen nice ones roll through and watch to see who's taking them ....but after a bunch that nobody catches... I go! ....and I kinda feel like if you didn't bring foam because you cant turn a bigger board and your not catching waves....thats your choice... This rule goes triple in Bali....so many beginners that can't catch waves on short boards out there....I hate to be a wave hog but man if I let a bunch roll through and you aint surfing forget it.

That's true, in an ideal world the longboarders would notice who is holding priority as they're paddling out after a wave and still sit behind until its their time.. But like you said probably not always gonna happen..

Haha thanks so much, can’t wait!! Yewww no worries at all!! 🙏🤙

I've only noticed because you've said It 😅

No worries at all!! Yeah somethjng I’ve found super handy recently as well! 🙏🤙

Epic really glad you like it - and epic idea!! Let me look into that haha I'm not sure how, really appreciate the feedback!!! 🙏🤙

So nice!!!

No worries at all!! And thanks so much!! 🙏🤙