Massage Guns… Are they worth the $$? and how to use them? I’m trying to think of how to type the sound I make when my back gets massage gun’d. Ahhhhhuuuuuuuhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm. Yeah, that’s probably about it or somewhere in that ball park. The sound of pleasure, and vibratory wave forms reverberating through my rib cage and affecting the sound of outpouring air through my vocal chords. The bottom line about massage guns: They Feel Good! I’ve been getting asked fairly frequently about massage guns: How to use them? Are they worth it? Should I buy one? If you want to hear my take on massage guns ..read more

The first time at a wave pool It was an unforgettable experience for me. It felt like a trial by fire – from moments of awe-inspiring “wow, this is epic” to humbling thoughts of “have I ever surfed before… I suck!” But that’s what makes wave pools so captivating; they offer an incredible opportunity to refine your surfing skills and have a blast while doing it. Wave Pools are starting to pop up everywhere, and that’s an incredible thing. With wave pools popping up everywhere, it’s no surprise that they are becoming the new go-to destination for surfers and water sports enthusiasts. Give it a f ..read more

A Few Fundamentals of Paddling Please STOP making these mistakes After being involved with coaching trips for years now, many of these “basics” seem to be overlooked by the intermediate spectrum of surfers and the beginner group.. A few simple tweaks can make some big changes to your paddling efficiency. Positioning, posture, tensioning, pubic bones, paddling gears, breathing, arm entry, wave reading, and understanding your energy output, can have a tremendous effect on how you feel in the water, your endurance, and your wave count. Want the rest of the video!? This is just a brief snippet fr ..read more

Can you twist? Are you a fluid spiral , or a disjointed stiff immobile cemented human? Whether you need some loosening and improved “flexibility”, or you’re just after some feel-good movements to undo surf session induced tensions, give these a crack. From an evolutionary perspective, the human body is made to rotate. Gait (walking) is a transverse plane movement… running is twisting, throwing, pulling… hip joints, ankles, spines, rib cages… it all ought to rotate! One of the major movement archetypes in surfing is a Twist. You’ve essentially got compression, extension, and rotation. If you ai ..read more

How To Read Waves, Catch More Waves, and Have More Shred Time Surfing, at its true essence, is a body of energy (our human electric body), interacting with a moving wave of energy being dispersed through a liquid medium. Meditate on that for a few minutes. Atoms of vibrating energy, interacting with one another to coalesce into this wild thing we call surfing. It’s a trip! On a more physical level, surfing is 100% dependent on your ability to read, interpret, and react to wave energy. That’s it. That is surfing. Literally, all of surfing is surmised in that statement. Your ability to surf, an ..read more

What is the perfect surf stance? One aspect that can be easily agreed upon is the fact it is NOT the dreaded poo man or poo wo-man stance. But why is that? What makes the unfortunately common poo-man stance, which plagues the beginner and intermediate realm of surfers, so drastically inefficient? And why is it so common? How can you change or improve your surf stance? How does a “perfect” surf stance allow for surfing progression and why does it just look, for lack of a better term, good? Really, it makes surfing look effortless. Why do Rob Machado, Ethan Ewing, or Andy Irons look so stylish ..read more

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Paddling Endurance & Posture For Surfers Surfing shouldn’t really be called surfing. A more appropriate name would be something along the lines of: lots of paddling around and occasionally standing up and surfing. I have no doubt you understand exactly where I’m coming from. Ask any surfer new to the sport, and they’re often astounded at how exhausting the simple act of paddling can be, yet we in the intermediate and advanced spectrum expect and demand from our bodies potential hours of paddling. That’s a lot of paddle strokes! In fact, there is research to prove what we all already know ..read more

How To Surf Bigger Waves & Conquer Fear Bigger & More Challenging Surf… If you want to expand your comfort zones, this is how you should take on the challenge. I want to share with you what I find to be the critical process of surfing bigger and heavier waves and conquering the fear that is inherent in the process. Whatever “bigger and heavier” waves mean to you makes no difference. It’s all in the eye of the beholder. I guarantee that if you consider, and take on board what I outline below, it WILL impact your ability in the surf and help you push your surfing boundaries. But the key ..read more

How To Surf Forever – Recover From a Session You pay to play. It’s all inputs and outputs. The yin yang of life. This rings true with exceptional loudness and clarity as the years continue to pass by and a life well lived accumulates its injuries and aches. I speak about this often with clients that I work within a one-on-one setting. My hope is to give them the understanding that as life goes on, as we become perhaps more aware of our capacities, and we develop clarity with what makes us happy.  With this aged wisdom, we often have to be more “choosey” with how and where we throw athleti ..read more