For anyone who may be looking for any longboard coaching video analysis, we're getting things up and running and I'd be stoked to assess and set up a plan for what you're looking to improve on! If you are at all interested please feel free to email at longboardcoaching@outlook.com Cheers everyone! Ben 🤙

As always, a succinct explanation - thank you. I am 76 years old and as happens as you age, I am losing strength, so these techniques are what I need.

@BenConsidine

6 ай бұрын

No worries at all! I hope they're helpful and get you into some more waves! Yewww 🤙🙏

I've been looking at hours of videos since 1.5y I started surfing, and I do find your explanation really thorough and on point! Eager to go back in the water and try them out

Beginner here. Have seen a ton of video. Your channel has been the best and clarified many questions and problems for me. Ordered some merch (which I have no business wearing near a beach…Ha) and Subscribed

@BenConsidine

8 күн бұрын

Hey!!! So so stoked its been helpful for you, always the best to hear! Thanks so much for reaching out, letting me know, and stoked to send you your product! I should be able to send out to you this Thursday!!! Thanks again for getting in touch, yewww!!! 🙏🤙

Another Great video Ben, Definitely plenty of lightbulb moments for me. The twisting of the torso towards each side of paddle stroke will give me greater stroke depth. I always thought I had to keep the torso from moving side to side. It makes sense to keep the weight on the chest and lean into each stroke. I do stop paddling hard as the wave is lifting me up and I agree that this is the worst thing to do when catching waves. I often feel like I’m trying to chase down waves to try and drop down the face, to pop up (late) as I hardly ever glide into waves. Anyhow I’m going to watch your video again & again until I re train the brain to use these techniques at the appropriate time in the water. Thanks so very much

Thanks for the great tips. 🤙

@BenConsidine

23 күн бұрын

No worries at all! Hope they’re helpful 🙏🤙🤙

Thanks for the tutorial. Really informative and excellently explained. A great help. Cheers.

I watch all of your videos. Epic, as usual! Many thanks 😊 especially from most of us where splashing around is a reward after a hard, hard week. After nine months of working two jobs and not being able to surf or exercise, I found that I could’t catch a wave. I watched every paddling, and many swimming and muscle building tutorials. After a year of training, found myself with friends in head high surf with my log out really deep, no leash. Couldn’t enter too critical or too flat. Waited for perfectly building wave, scratched away, caught it and road it to shore. Then stayed inside, caught a couple, got thrashed and just had fun. When you have a free moment 😀(you’re busy)please walk us through the pop-up variations. John 3:16

@BenConsidine

6 ай бұрын

No worries at all Lance! Great to hear you were able to get back out there and get into some waves!! Surfings a great escape glad you're able to be back into it! No worries - will keep a pop-up variations video in the mix for the future, yewww!!! Thanks so much Lance - 🤙🙏

Brilliant - love the format of having tips broken up by skill level as most of us are somewhere in between and it helps to know what we should be comfortable with (in the early levels) vs what we should start thinking ahead to (of the more advanced). Had the best day in a while today after watching your vid over my breakfast. Cheers from nyc 🤙

Such a thorough breakdown!! Thank you very much 🤙

@BenConsidine

4 ай бұрын

Stoked it was helpful - thank you!!! 🙏🤙

I've only been surfing for 5 weeks now. This has been a really helpful video. I look forward to implementing your suggestions into my surfing practice tomorrow.

@BenConsidine

Ай бұрын

Yewww I hope it was helpful!!! (sorry for delayed response here!!) yewww 🤙🙏

Thanks!

Love the looking back 3 times rule - such a helpful idea. Many thanks for this and all the other amazing videos you share.

@BenConsidine

6 ай бұрын

I hope it helps!! Have definitely found it super useful to get in the habit of checking and adjusting the paddle in terms of direction and speed depending on what the waves doing behind you! No worries at all! Yewww 🙏🤙

Brilliant 🤙🤙 thank you

@BenConsidine

6 ай бұрын

Yewww no worries!!!

Good Info !

@BenConsidine

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Beau! Hope it’s helpful for you! 🤙🤙🙏

Hi Ben! I always enjoy your video. 🤙

@BenConsidine

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Ethan!! I hope you’re finding them useful for your own surfing! Appreciate the support - yewww!!!

Thanks, I needed this today. These are all good details and things I think about when out on the waves watching other surfers, and I’m sure I’ll rewatch and study this video. Here in the NE USA, it was 75-80F (25C) and sunny for the last few days. On Sat. late morning through afternoon, w/1-2’ waves at my usual beachbreak, I decided to try the new 9.75” single fin on my 9’4” roundnose pintail. While everyone else was going w/tri-fins, I was having a hard time catching any waves. W/the fin all the way back, the board was sliding out from under me going straight as soon as I popped up. Moving the fin forward in the box helped a bit at first, but then I was pearling? Despite my frustration, I did what I set out to do, and I learned: As I still get a feel for this board and control, the larger single fin may be too much for me just yet; 1-2’ summer waves are perhaps different than autumn Atlantic hurricane/TS swells here; it’s back to basics for me w/2+1, then maybe try the single again next summer. After a few hours, I went back to the sand (and got some pet therapy from a friendly pup). In the evening, setting sun behind the beach and Hunter’s full moon rising above the ocean, I took tons of photos, but I was still tempted to go out there again w/the other surfers. No matter what, I enjoyed a beautiful day. Sorry for the long message, but I just want to say that your videos are immensely helpful in assessing my own progress and developing my understanding. So keep up the good work, Ben.🤙

Great video👍

@BenConsidine

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Rikard!!! Hope you found it useful 🤙🤙🙏

@rikardsaje

6 ай бұрын

@@BenConsidine I must say your explanation for the different techniques are very easy to follow so thank you. I've always thought to keep my upper body still when paddling but am going to try your advice on the next surf.

Awesome video, I struggle with all of these things 😆.

@BenConsidine

6 ай бұрын

Glad you found it useful!!! I hope it can help out - yewww!!! 🙏🤙

Finally got my first proper hang 5 yesterday, then my second this morning, and 3rd, 4th, 5th. Been watching the tips and tricks for a while and was reflecting on a few of your videos about noseriding and clearly somethings clicked 🙂

@BenConsidine

6 ай бұрын

Yewwww so good!! 👏🙌 Always so good to hear, stoked you have had something click - enjoy the tip time!! Would love to know what you feel helped to progress , cheers Daniel and well done!! 🤙

@danielsnell5003

6 ай бұрын

A combination of placing a little pressure on the inside rail whilst cross stepping up the board as well as thinking about widening the stance and “poking” out the front foot with more of a straighter leg. And then also trying to slow everything down a touch so I wasn’t just going full send every time 😂 @@BenConsidine

Thanks for that insightful technique on catching waves Ben 😃 As a beginner i don't know how to remedy my pop up bec my knee always hit the board..

@BenConsidine

3 ай бұрын

No worries at all! That's a pretty common one, getting some footage of yourself is best to remedy that so you can identify why the knee is hitting! if it was ever something you wanted/needed i do surf analysis coaching where I help people with this kind of thing, my email is longboardcoaching@outlook.com , only if that's something you're after though! Video analysis can be super handy for yourself to review as well! :) Cheers!

Love your videos bro. Quick suggestion: the audio volume varies alot throughout many of your videos. Doing a little audio work to equalize the volume and clarity of your voice can really step up the overall production quality of your videos.

@BenConsidine

6 ай бұрын

Hey Johan!! I really appreciate that thanks!! It was definitely not great in this one I agree, sometimes when you’re editing you get used to hearing everything over and over again and it’s harder to recognise, but when I watched it back I can definitely tell what you mean, I really appreciate that though. I think I used headphones to edit as well which may have caused some problems!? Haha 🤙🤙🙏

Very informative, but a lot of videos have not mentioned what should our lower body does on a short board when paddling. I know legs and feet have to be kept together but what about our knees? Should they touch the board and push down? Or just let them float in the water? I feel wobbling if the knees are not touching the board, but if touching, the weight distribution changed and the board tilted and created drag.

when the nose of my table starts sinking like in 7:04, i feel like if i continue paddeling im going to nosedive, so most of the time i stop uu.