Surfing steep and fast waves is the toughest part about surfing. I went to HB and found myself either too late or too early. It's frustrating but I'm determined to master it.

What a great video, Brad! Please make more of these technique breakdowns

Casey Neistat just casually catching some tips from Brad.

Nice video... But you miss the most important tip of all that explains why people miss timming the wave. Has you paddle to the wave ALWAYS LOOK AT WAVE AND WERE YOU WANNA GO AS YOU DROP. You got to have your eyes always focus at the wave and this is what makes you connected to the wave has this wave you get your timming right. Many times people miss the wave , paddle to much or less or are in the wrong position because they aren't looking enough at the wave. Training that posture and you will improve a lot... Your wave catch will sky rocket. Another thing that people do wrong when catching a wave is that they wanna pop up quickly that they do it to soon. You have to be fast but do it the right way and that is when you create speed and the board is stable, that comes with the flow that generated in the last 1 or 2 strokes, head up, chest open, looking were you wanna go and for a split of a second let the board flow... and finally pop up!

Love this. I am a beginner surfer, and this was really helpful!

watched this last night and applied the technique shown at 9:45 onward, and i just had the session of my life. had a good 5 long rides purely because of staying super high. intermediate surfer (1 year). thanks for the vid man!!

This is excellent. I LOVE seeing the contrast between the regular surfers and the more advanced surfers. This really helps

1:24 - scary in the lip!! love your video Brad

Definitely one of the best breakdowns I’ve ever seen, great video

these are so helpful and it makes me visualize my mistakes on pops/paddles. please make more!

Well done. Super helpful. Thank you!

I live in Florida, if I can stand up and ride whitewash for 5 seconds straight I’m stoked

One of the most helpful surging videos ever! Thank you!

I love the breakdown. I live at a break here in Brazil and film a lot and no matter the crowd it is very easy to pick out whose catching waves by the paddle. Great video!

Super helpful video. You have a way at explaining things 🤙

Great breakdowns, really helpful and informative, thanks! 🌊🏄‍♂️🤙🏻😃

A ray of light. Great video. Thank you🎈🎈

Loved this video, the repetition of pop up quick was great reminder, also your commentary is funny

Great video! You do a fantastic job with all of your vids!!! Thanks! 👍🏼👍🏼

Thanks bro❤️‍🔥✝️John 3

Great explanation.

Nice i'll start applying this tips ASAP!

Great Video! really helpful MORE MORE MORE please.

thanks for sharing. Now it's time for my to try all you told us in this video. That's the most difficult part for me 🤣🤣

make more of these brad!

Hey Brad, excellent examples! Thanks!

Amazing video Brad! Very helpful!! Please consider making the same video but showing back side techniques

Pretty good video posted. Thanks a lot. I live in puerto escondido oax mex. No surfing no life. All the best to your channel & life.

Great tips! Thank you.

Enjoyable Great video ! Thanks !👍❣✌!

Awesome channel! Subscribed!

So helpful esp. since you showed both the pros and the intermediates.

Thanks for sharing it!

Thanks!

Amazing! Tks!

Really helpful thank you 🤙🏽

Brad, someone below said to make more of these videos. I agree. This is excellent. Also, I grew up surfing in So Cal. Stopped in my early twenties (and I was an above average surfer). Then no surfing for easily close to thirty years. Two things against me... to an extent, age, though I'm in excellent shape and living in NY which makes things way more difficult (short season and limited spots.... I'm not big on Rockaway, as it's all lefts). If you have any suggestion at all out of this long post, I'm open to any constructive feedback. Btw, riding a 7'6" board as I never learned on short boards. Love your videos.

Thank you my friend

What I tell all beginners that I meet is to drop at 2:00 or 10:00 since they are not good at bottom turning, that way they can ride the waves and start cutting on it from the drop. Do they pay attention to my advise, most of them not and they won't learn. I've seen them surfing after a couple of years and still go straight down on the white wash.

I've been a photographer for decades now and always wanted to be an ocean/surfing photographer. It sounds like an amazing experience.

Best video tutorials around. No doubt!

Solid vid Brad!

Great video

Dude this is a great video glad it made it to my recommended page

Much love from PNW

Thanks a lot , it reall helps!

Great video!!! Very helpful, knowledgeable, and easy going 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 loved it.

this video gets me SO excited I want to go to the beach TOMORROW but gotta wait for the weekend T__T

Great vídeo. I would like to see more like this pls

Awesome tips and video 🤠

I LIKE VIDEO BREAK DOWN !! THANKS !!

Brad, I really enjoyed your videos I have been surfing since about 1963 and have had many enjoyable sessions with friends on Marta's Vineyard where I live all up and down the East Coast also in Santa Cruz and up north at Dillon Beach and in Costa Rica I want to keep surfing as long as I can. What I am facing now is I am wearing out my body I just had my left hip replaced and both knees a few years back I find it is getting much harder to pop up quickly like I used to. I was wondering if you could give some video instructions for older surfers for improving wave count and ways to modify your take-off besides using a walker. I have had to give up on some of my breaks due to them being too steep take-off and just not being able to pop up fast enough, thanks, Chas.

This is a great video. I think you could do something similar for old surfers. I know a lot of older guys that haven't learnt how to be rickety and still get to their feet. I can't tell them but you might.

Biggest pop up issues are look where you want to go not straight down. I see this all the time with beginner to intermediate level surfers. Good surfers, we stagger the hands which opens our chest to allow space to bring our legs through.

1:16 old mate about to cop it in the chops.

The random surfer in 3:57 is Casey Neistat 😂

Nice!!

i laughed at the end 😂😁. nice job. like!

LOL Brad surfer at 4:04 is Casey Neistat haha!

also if u wanna get barreled good and ur not that deep pop up later to almost go over the falls but instead u stall the take off in control

Nice analysis... Always listen to the photographer !! ;D

Good tips. in my first yt vid u could see that I didn’t get in the steep part of the wave on one wave, if I did that I would’ve got barreled but instead the lip hit my head.

great video !

Kid, good! I`m you fan!

nice video!

Guys I tried surfing the other day … it looks so easy, Well it was the hardest thing I’ve tried to do lol didn’t even get up but can’t wait to get back and ride a wave

5:00 caisy naistat. Lil hard to spell for me, no auto correct

great vid Brad, lots of useful knowledge. Would consider playing in slowmo, rather than skipping backwards and forwards with the mouse, for future tutorials : )

Man this has helped me so much. I used to do this but stopped surfing for years and since I’ve come back lost my confidence . Was at a beautiful overhead A frame beachie recently that was steep and fast and kept not going for waves because I had forgotten how fast I could be if I stayed high.

Very good video

Bro few things you missed, 3:13 he popped up with his hand in the front of the board, his other hand in the wave, and he put most of his weight on his front toes.

we call example # 1 - knifng the entry

4:45 is that Casey Niestat??!!

Take off is actually the major skill in surfing... With paddling for hours.

Nice

wooo!

dude the guy @ 1:35 probably got really hurt. That looked gnarly as hell

Haha “just ask chandler”

I was trying to find a video to help with my airs then you laughed at me 😂

8:23 i think i see a big fish

Did you ever make a video on etiquette?

Hey Brad , when you get good , you don't even 'pop-up' . You tuck your board under as you ' drop' . Popping up is usually done by novices in small surf . 'A' ole pilikia .

Did you get all of the knowledge from photography or do you also surf? Amazing video anyway

That left Travis is on looks like my home break

from the surfer's perpesctive, the reason why you can't lean into the wave hard is that your board is too slow or wide

Ok great vid but 2 things...1. You don't turn your board when your paddling for a wave and starting to drop in, you drop in at an angle, you should already have read the wave knowing it's a right or left and then angle your board to drop into the wave which has the better open face etc, 2. Is that a shark in the water right beside the guy dropping in at 8:23?

Is it me or is the guy in the second example Case Neistat 🤔 white g-shock and everything.

8:23 I saw a shadow of the a shark in your video. I don't have sure, but you can check it.

Brat is a great video too, I also do paddle surf ,Can you make something for the paddle surf Be awesome take care👏👏🤙🤙🤙🤙🏄‍♂️

Lol that's Casey Neistat who's struggling

The second surfer has the unmistakably massive brow bone of none other than Casey Neistat

He may not be a pro surfer, but he knows how to surf like one

poor Casey Neistat

What about point or reef breaks

Something is in the wave at the 8:25 mark behind that surfer. Shark, dolphin or another surfer? As others have noticed going back.

Why is it though that when your out there, its so hard to imagine where it is you are, as everything happens so fast.! Any advice to me?

4:50 a lot of professional surfer place back foot first . Watch slowmotiom pop up videos . It s the speed and coordination for that how many y steps . Some pro free surfer do that as well . Whatever gets you up fast and without twerking and losing speed works .. we are all built differently ( another reason why some are pros at sports and others are not )

3:56 isn't that random surfer Casey Neistat? lmao

poor dude getting hit in the face by a longboard at 1:17

Surfing is not like riding a bike . I was a decent surfer when I was young and surfed allot . Now being older and going out once every blue moon I suck ( yeah it's a strong word but true) I lack confidence and weak in the water . Understanding and timing the wave is still there but snapping up is like I am a beginner all over again . I mountain bike all the time and you would think that physical shape would translate into surfing but negative on that for me . I went surfing ( if you could call it that ) last week and my leash popped off going over the falls and had to swim in . I haven't swam in years and it was a struggle and at 60 I had to get out the effort . Snapping up is my greatest problem . It is just a struggle . I have come to the conclusion for me is I would have to spend more time in the water to get in surfing shape . It's a difficult action to master and remaster