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Move from prone to stance quickly with stable foot placement and low posture.

What coaches agree on

  • As you push up, arch your back and lift your chest and hips off the board - this creates the space your legs need to swing through to your feet.
  • Keep your hands flat on the deck under your chest for leverage and room to bring your foot through.
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  • Practice on land with a marked centerline - tape, paint, or a line drawn in the sand - so you learn to land your feet in the same stable spot every time.

Common mistakes

  • Popping up off your knees instead of pushing straight up onto your hands and back foot leaves your hips low and unstable, and it is too slow to keep up with steeper waves.
  • Looking down at your feet instead of ahead throws off your balance and often sends you straight down the wave into the whitewater instead of along it.
  • Bringing your front foot forward before your back foot, or jumping both feet on at once, lands you too far back and off-center, forcing a wobbly readjustment.
Are you struggling to pop-up ? A common mistake we often see people making is placing their hands too high on the surfboard. Ideally, we want to place our hands under our bottom ribs when popping to our feet. This not only allows us more power and leverage but also creates more space between our chest and our board for planting our front foot on the accelerator. The pop-up is the process of getting onto our feet and into our surf stance in one fluid motion. This is a skill that can take years to years to hone and become consistent with but we have a few pointers below. 1 - Hands behind shoulders, flat on the deck. 2 - Lock arms before moving legs 3 - Weight focused on hands 4 - Lunge legs forward to body (not body back to legs) 5 - Shoulders in front of hands 6 - Plant front foot 7 - Push off hands as you extend 8 - Eyes down the line looking for target. Have any questions or something you’d like us to cover in a future reel? Drop a comment down below. #surftips #learntosurf #surfcoaching #howtosurf #surfing #surftrip #shortboard #longboard #surfvacation #surfresort

Are you struggling to pop-up ? A common mistake we often see people making is placing their hands too high on the surfboard. Ideally, we want to place our hands under our bottom ribs when popping to our feet. This not only allows us more power and leverage but also creates more space between our chest and our board for planting our front foot on the accelerator. The pop-up is the process of getting onto our feet and into our surf stance in one fluid motion. This is a skill that can take years to years to hone and become consistent with but we have a few pointers below. 1 - Hands behind shoulders, flat on the deck. 2 - Lock arms before moving legs 3 - Weight focused on hands 4 - Lunge legs forward to body (not body back to legs) 5 - Shoulders in front of hands 6 - Plant front foot 7 - Push off hands as you extend 8 - Eyes down the line looking for target. Have any questions or something you’d like us to cover in a future reel? Drop a comment down below. #surftips #learntosurf #surfcoaching #howtosurf #surfing #surftrip #shortboard #longboard #surfvacation #surfresort

Coach's take: Detailed, correct pop-up cues; caption alone is useful.

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