8 Skills That Helped Me Improve From A Beginner To Intermediate Level | How To Surf

There are many skills which a surfer can work on and improve. For me personally, practicing these 8 skills made the biggest difference, and translated to faster improvements in my own surfing.
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[@HowtoRip]

Helpful!

[@peter498]

I’m a new surfer, nobody wants to help me, so I’m watching your videos and I’m learning so fast month by month… when I get into the ocean I feel connected. Is something impossible to explain. Thank you

[@bryandaves1005]

🙌 only a surfer knows the feeling

[@TheSurfersJourney]

Hi Peter, thank you for your feedback. I am stoked to hear that the videos are helping you out. I agree, that feeling can't be beat, and the best part is that that feeling never goes away.

[@christiandeboer555]

I gonna try to surf this vacation 😁😛

[@TheSurfersJourney]

Enjoy and good luck

[@middleagedshred]

This is good stuff man..great to see more of this

[@TheSurfersJourney]

More to come MAS, thank you again

[@themagikian4237]

Thanks man. That was very helpful.

[@TheSurfersJourney]

Glad it helped, thank you for the feedback Magikian

[@christophergreen3075]

Excellent vid. Great tips to put into practice.Thank you.🤙

[@TheSurfersJourney]

Thank you Chris!

[@germanchow1976]

From how to rip to this new one, you are making great videos. 👍🏽

[@TheSurfersJourney]

Thank you germanchow1976, stoked to hear that 😀

[@jellybowl7332]

Nice vid bud. Regarding the look where you go I think a lot of intermediate surfers and even advanced tend to look down the line and pump for speed immediately instead of delaying their bottom turn a touch to make use of earlier sections they may miss. Kelly Slater, Mick Fanning and Tom Curren are masters of delaying that bottom turn a touch to perform critical manoeuvres early and making the most of the wave. You can even see Curren on a lot of his bottom turns look straight down, glance down the line for a second and then look straight back down allowing his eyes to guide him through his bottom turns.

[@TheSurfersJourney]

Great observation Jellybowl, we can all strive to surf more like those legends!

[@nicklamb9102]

Thank you this Tip

[@TheSurfersJourney]

Thanks Nick

[@tonytee4706]

Ryan, could you please explain the techniques you use to get a round a wave that breaks in front of you to get back to the wave. So to make it clear you are on a wave and the section in front of you breaks and you want to speed up surf around it to get back to the wave face which is say 5 meters in front of you.
Do you compress, and lean your inside rail more into the white water and lift the outside up a bit, or do you use other ways to increase your speed to surf around it.
Thanks

[@TheSurfersJourney]

Hi Tony, where possible you would perform a manoeuvre on that section in order to get over it and back to the wave face. Depending on the section and your ability, you could use a floater, foam climb or re entry. Does that help?

[@TheSurfersJourney]

Watch around the 10min mark. th-cam.com/video/xPQUiGN_DF8/w-d-xo.html

[@ivydune4185]

Can you explain how you do this pumping? Here 1:02 , here 1:38 or here 1:49. What happens with your feet? Is this like a up down speed generation but faster and shorter, or more like a tick tack? I think this short pumping is needed to accelerate in small waves, but rarely talked about.

[@TheSurfersJourney]

Hi Ivy, good point. I would say a combination of the two but more tick tack, this particular spot is notorious for being fat, so I feel like that can help maintain some momentum over those sections but in this case get around those upcoming sections. It is really just like shorter, tighter heel to toe weight transitioning.

[@ivydune4185]

@@TheSurfersJourney Thank you!!! I'll try it!

[@Surfnet47]

After 20 year of not surf can i still do it? Ha 🤣 thanks bro keep me positive

[@TheSurfersJourney]

Yes you can Matrix, no reason why not!