If speed is to be maintained, surfers should try to draw a longer arc by bending their body and reaching for the waves surface. This puts the surfboard onto its rail, allowing the surfer to utilise the wave’s power effectively, and draw a longer controlled arc – maintaining their speed in the process.

So when faced with a flat section, drive off the bottom and as you near the top of the wave, lean and bend your body, reach for the wave’s surface, and hold this body position for the count of one [or for two if performing a cutback].

Maintaining Speed In Flat Sections

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WavePoolMag correspondent Hannah Bristow – partner at KellySaysSurf, a YouTube channel “full of faceplants, fun and surfing fails” — shelved her ego and said “Yes” to a video coaching session with Martin Dunn. 

A fixture in the UK surf scene, Hannah emphasised to us that this is her first coaching session, “unless you count all the times random dudes paddled up to me in the lineup and said ‘you know, you should try not to put your knee on the board when you pop up.” 

But surf coach Martin is more Mister Spock than mansplaining Spicoli offering unsolicited advice in the lineup. In this intermediate coaching clip he gets all logical and breaks down Hannah’s triumphs and failures.

“As a tool, wave pools could realize spectacular results in a shortened time frame for those motivated surfers willing to do the work,” says Martin, coach to 20 WCT world tour qualifiers and Team Australia. “But like any tool, the technicians who will be advising the surfers must also be up to the job.”

After watching just a few waves of Hannah’s from a session this past winter at The Wave in Bristol, Martin had a few video coachingrecommendations including working on pop up and arm movement. Hannah says the clip provides great insight into her technique. 

“It’s super helpful! Yeah, I always hated my pop up,” she told us in a text. “I deffo need to not swing my arm so much and turning my head is something I always forget on re entry. If I remember to do it, it really pushes the tail out and gets some release, I’ll work on it for sure!”

Video Review - Hannah Bristow

The full “Wave Pool Magazine” article can be viewed here.

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In surfing there are a number of fundamental skills which must be perfected before surfers can achieve consistent success. One of these key skills is assuming a low, centered, body position to complete all major manoeuvres attempted. This is extremely important at the end of progressive moves and when faced with a difficult end-section.

The perfect body position to assume when landing advanced manoeuvres is a chest over front knee body body position. This body shape positions the surfer directly over the stringer of the surfboard with the surfboard becoming perfectly flat making for an incredibly stable landing platform. With this body position assumed, the surfer can more readily handle the landing forces and the exploding lip as it tries to knock them off their feet.

The thing is though, many surfers don’t focus on the importance of this body position when landing manoeuvres. They stay too tall in their stance, or land more over their heels – both making errors more likely. All surfers should practice “snapping” into this perfect body shape on a regular basis, so that when they are attempting difficult manoeuvre they will instinctively assume their “Chest over front knee” body shape, and with that – more success on a daily basis.

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