Thanks for watching guys!! Enjoy and we’ll see you again soon!

Meanwhile in South Carolina, that “1-2 ft wave” there would be our swell of the year 😂 Awesome vid!

I grew up on the Georgia coast, most of the time it's choppy, small, and weak here. One of the side effects of learning to surf on crappy waves became apparent on my first surf trip (to Cocoa Beach) when I was 13. When I took off on a wave there, it was completely different. I had so much more time to think. Surfing on awful waves is a much more instinctual exercise. There's no time to think, you just have to get up and go. You have to train until everything becomes muscle memory, so that your body knows what to do and your brain just goes blank. That's another reason why there are so many good surfers from places with awful surf, in my opinion anyway.

Something to maybe cover in future videos. I was surprised how quickly I was able to progress my surfing as I started doing yoga. Hip flexibility is the king. I guess it is what you don’t realise is even a problem if you surf since being a kid. But when you start in your late 20s it becomes a huge issue (after all the years of sitting 9-to-5).

lol... australians "1-2 ft wave like this" - over here on the e. coast we call that a 3 ft wave hahahha

I live in israel that known for very small waves (the average wave in here in a normal week is somewhere between 70-100 cm) And this video realy helped me to get a better look on smaller waves and improve my surfin abilities so thanks

"4 foot wave like this" meanwhile in LA that's a 6-7 huge day hahahahaha

Great vid!!! Loved the concepts covered, good detail, and exposition. Thanks.

That scoop and clap demo is a great way to break down the method of generating speed. Thanks!

great video Kale. Yep, I'm in Florida too.....smaller waves most of the year...for sure.

Great video @kales! Here in the Mediterranean (Valencia, Spain) we're quite used to have small waves and also with not too much energy, so this gives me a great group of hints for progression. Already got my Surkskate. Work in progress! It would be nice to also have a video to distinguish the way to surf a small wave vs surfing a, not so small but "slow" wave. You know, this type of waves that you need to cut back quite often in order not to get out of the power zone of the wave. Thanks a lot in advance from the opposite side of the planet!

sheeeeshe this video is just amazing! Explanation is so simple and easy! thanks a lot for tips man

Hey Kale, your vids are super helpful man. I’ve gone from surfing a Becker 7’11 fun board to standing and half maneuvering a 40L 5’10” quad in 4 weeks. Still definitely a beginner, no doubt, but I’m noticing the fast learning and fast progress for 4 weeks of surfing. Most helpful takeaways for me here were the clap and scoop (struggling to turn on my fish and get an intuitive sense for turning/maneuvering), and the point system analogy for wave power. They’re genius. Anyway, just wanted to drop a hello and thank you for all the awesome content. Cheers from Cali! Yeeeww

Thank you for your great videos - they are very informative and useful for learning.

I’m so glad you made a video about this because I love surfing small waves 😄

Perfect ! Very clear breakdown and advice.

Awesome, man! The videos you guys make are so professional, this really amazes me hahah

Love that you guys are making these videos. I grew up on those same breaks ;).

Good stuff. Thanks guys!

exactly! i surf in every condition we have down here in Victoria, always have. defiantly makes you a better all around surfer! love your videos man.

Good job. I've learned a lot from you guys. Thank you

Love your work. Always plenty for me to learn and work on

I love watching these, no matter your skill level it’s a good tool to fine tune your surfing. Great break down boyz🤙🏾🤙🏾 aloha

First video by you guys that I heard some decent background music haha! Glad youre making these videos man, keep it up!

Can you do a video on how to surf small to small-ish waves that are short/close out quickly.

Great content, ideas and explanation. Well done fellas.

Great video! Gratitude!

Hey man .. Thanks for the vids .. Totally helped me

I forget to say thank you and congrats! Great video

Great content mate. Keep it up!

That was fantastic. Good job!

Great video as usual guys! Would love it if you could break down how to do a floater. I’m really struggling with that

To all you learners out there. This video is not for you. This video is for someone who has learn't to surf and who can ride bigger waves and shred but can't generate power in smaller surf. Please please please don't think that as a beginner you will be able to follow the advise on this video and suddenly be able to surf like this guy (bloody good surfer that he is). He started surfing and passed through exactly the same phase as you are at and it took him many many many more hours of surfing before he could do anything with the info he provides here. What you need to do is get out there and surf. And then you need to get out there and surf. And then you need to get out there and....................surf. What he is telling you is something that you will quite likely pick up as you go, if you mainly surf small waves, BUT there is no point in trying to put it into action while you are struggling to stand up and stay upright. Just get used to riding the board, have FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN. Next, have FUN. Eventually you may reach a point where you can shred in big waves but not in small waves, that is the point when this video may be of use to you. In closing I'd like to say that surfing is in my opinion the greatest thing you can do for fun, every wave and day are different and I wish you the same amount of stoke that I have had over the years doing it!.

great advice. THX!

Great video, new to surfing, helping heaps.

Awsome breakdonw mate! Cheers!!

Thank you thank you for what you guys do it's so helpful thank you

Great film thanks

Really good material, congrats, hope u make more content like this ;)

Yew! If I didn't live so far away in the US the retreat would be killer! Thanks for the videos and continued awesome advice!

Great video! Awesome advice!

Can u guys do a video where u film a whole session in POV on the Gopro and then break down your turns (like what went well and what could change) so that intermediate surfers like myself can get a view from the eyes and an analysis from the brain of you guys. That would be sick! Thanks and great work! Cheers from Cali 🤙🤙

wish id known you when i visisted down under back in 2016, would have been great for my progress (i wasted alot of time surfing waves that didnt fit my skill level and also i had no real teacher). you seem like a chilled dude to share the line up with too! i spent most my time in sydney surfing manly. really liked bilgoa too, whale beach we only surfed once, on new years cause all other places were filled. cheers mate!

Can you make a video about how to pump the board, to generate speed? Also, is there an exercise to practice pumping on a skateboard? I'm from Cocoa Beach, by the way...Another reason small wave surfers excel in the sport of surfing is that they have very little time to execute tricks. Here in Cocoa Beach, your ride on a wave only lasts literally a few seconds, and that's on a good day. In order to do tricks, you have to perform them very quickly. As a result, surfers like Kelly Slater are able to rack up the points quickly, performing lots of tricks in short succession. In contrast, surfers from Hawaii are very spoiled, having the best waves in the world, that seem to go on forever. As a result, their surfing style looks slow and lazy when compared to Kelly's. Kelly can probably do five tricks to their one trick.

Great video guys! I’d really like to see one about improving more critical takeoffs when surfing faster waves and slabs.

Great videos!

Sick.. as always 😎

Thanks for the video mate. As an Italian surfer I'll give you a little piece of advice...never look down on your small waves, those would be little gems in the mediterranean :)

Amazing breakdown, advice and visuals guys. Our customers ask for this sort of thing all the time so well done - you guys nailed it especially about weight and board size. The one element that would be great to cover in a video is how taller surfers should ride small waves. The distance of a pop up and the immediate acceleration is longer (more time required) for a taller surfer than a shorter surfer. We know there are lots of taller surfers out there that really, really struggle in small waves. Some pointers on this would be epic to help improve surfing technique. But hey... great job guys. Well done.

*Good stuff!*

awesome tips thanks.....loving the vibe.....Green Living Path......youtube bless

What do you think about foam short boards? Any suggestions? Love your channel. Keep up the great work!

Cool video! A video about the different surfboard types would be cool

Good lesson

Speed tips I've learned over the years: - The top third of the wave is where you want to generate speed from. Generally, the higher your line, the faster you'll go. - Paddle HARD! That extra bit of paddle speed will carry over into your first turn. - Certain turns (like carves) look great in big waves, but lame in smaller waves, understand what turns look great in smaller surf. - Unless you're chasing a section down the line STAY...IN...THE...POCKET, it's where all the wave's power is and it's the best place to do moves and recover from them with speed to flow into another. - Don't forget to shift your feet! When trying to build speed, quickly shift your stance forward and shift it back again just before a maneuver. - Don't force the wave, this results in 'ugly surfing'.

How to surf Florida

One of the best surf vids I've seen. Thanks! Would love to see a video on catching more waves and not getting caught in the lip. I just learned from a friend that it helps to push the front of the board down into the wave as you catch it by pressing your chin to the board.

I've been going to Cocoa Beach since I was a baby, but I always felt underwhelmed from the size of the waves. Never thought i could do more than just ride the line there!

Nice brada

Thanks a lot! The waves here in The Netherlands are almost always small

Great video, I notice you are always toeside. I believe its harder to do on the heels, but is it possible to get the same speed/pump backside? thanks.

Kale loving your vids mate! Quick one, I'm finding I get hung up heaps in smaller waves, surf bigger fine. I don't seem to have this on the west coast Aus where it's punchier but since moving to east coast I find this happening a lot specially at places like Cronulla. Any tips as to why?

ya gotta be lucky to have waves such as these, off a rocky bottom; here in Brazil sucks, cause all we got are sandy breaks that move alot with the current and small waves that generate no speed, and it gets quite frustrating to improve on such scenario

Good video, about litters it depends a lot on surfers weight

Everyone should have a fish in their quiver...no doubt about it. Thanks mate! !!!

Epic video

Love it

Hi great video!! I had a concern about a board i wanted to get your take if you believe it would be a good beginner short board for me. I am 150pds and 5'-10" height. I bought the catchsurf retro fish 5'8"x 19" 32 liter surfboard. Would that be a good choice for a first shortboard? I have enough experience to ride a wavestorm if that helps with my level. The Retro fish is a foamie but with my weight and height do you believe i can duck dive this board also? Cheers and hope to see way more videos!!

Kale, what is the skateboard you're using for drills? Thinking about getting one to mess around on for extra practice

Cheers mart

Hi i will like to know more about differences of surfboard for small wvs all around bordas and medium waves also some tips of choice fins easy to undestand

Awesome... teach barrels!

Can you guys please do a backhand and forehand barrel riding technique video? Love your videos, yew!

thank you folly beach, SC for all your small ass waves 🙏🏼

Nice videos Please make a video about weight vs volume and how loosing weight allows you to surf smaller boards in small waves I was 82kg struggling surfing with a 35L board and I'm dieting now to reach 72kg and hope it works better Many thanks

that’s a really good day here in florida

6:17 - Scoop n clap 🤙

Hi Kale can you do a video on fin importance

How do you feel about the twisting and carving of a rip-stik? Good motion practice?

Great vid! I’m a beginner intermediate surfer confertable on my longboard and can get up and ride the wave repeatedly. I’m looking to get a new surfboard to continue improving my surf, what would you recommend? Maybe look at one around 7’8?

Excelente explicacion

Love the music Kale! What is this?

I've been surfing an 8 ft wavestorm-like foam board for 2 years in 1-3 ft waves and can take-off, turn and go down the face of the wave.... I've picked up a 5'10'' wavestorm fish and either have trouble catching the wave or if I do, feel like I'm going down so fast I don't have time to pop-up and end up body surfing all the way towards the beach..... Can you do a video specifically on how to catch waves on a fish with focus on the paddle-in and pop-up including technique?

Crazy gr8; more please on using SmoothStar (Carver, if you are USA - I don't see where you can buy SmoothStar in USA) tricks, tips but these next gen skateboards appear to have potential to teach riders how to pump, create speed and turn. And then - bit more on board tech; fish template, flat and volume; you just don't hear enough about it and these waves - they are the waves most surfers will actually see...! Nice job... (Edit just to say I'm not making distinction b/w SmoothStar and Carver or any other brand; this is an Aussie site - go AU all the way - and was only encouraging Kales to expound on his 'land based' techniques...)

So True! Had my second 'Eureka moment' of surfing just the other day! (First was a feind 'pushed' me onto a green wave and I caught it-super awesome, thanks Lee!) Surfing, surfing, every time maybe catching a few waves, more or less, maybe not.... True I took surfing up the year I was waiting for a double hip replacement and by this session, (Glory be to God, or more rightly the surgeon)-I could finally achieve a squat position, so grateful !Anyway, the surf was small and it was an unbelievably beautiful day AND I was the ONLY surfer out- not a single other surfer entire sessions, and only three or four momentary -very momentary swimmers-due to it being winter here...anyway...the waves were that ideal 'smallness' for a beginner, yet with jutst enough power-about 2-3 foot- and my God, it gives me a real buzz just to think of it now; I caught EVERY SINGLE WAVE that I went for! Every single one! It did take my news hips fully 'rehabbed,' Ok, OK! It did also however, take enough 'wave reading experience'...I did 'turn down' several approaches and take off's to several waves..earlier in my surfing carer, maybe I would have tried and 'failed'...yet if you think realistically, it isn't really 'failure' rather, it is learning, until the day everything, your body-mind-heart-spirit click with conditions and experiences-understanding and you finally get that 'Eureka Moment' with an art, such as I enjoyed just the other day...the real 'icing on the cake' of which was that I had a minute, initially maybe non-existent it seemed window of opportunity to execute it; I was on this day due on school pick-up for kids and only if I got to the beach extra-quick and everything went just better than you could expect normally, really I was pushing it just to get in the and straight out if that did happen!...and it was unexpectedly Fantastic! Fantastic! But why say this? Because if it had been six foot I very much doubt I would have caught half as many, who knows maybe on for two or three or even NO waves, especially since I have a significant rotator cuff injury now, dagnabbit, but not enough to stop me performing on small waves...on this day on every single beautiful one! Thanks of the ACE surf vids Kale! Really enjoy them! Happy surfing everyone and remember save Nature, look after our Home Planet! Example; Pay your carbon off-sets of surf trips! Happy days!

Great video. But the wave messurement i dont understand. In my country a 1-2 wave means minimal surf condition. The wave is knee high, and you can only surf on a long board.

Thanks for your vids bro. So if I'm 1.70 meters and weight 65 kilos, what's the equivalent of that board I should get? I imagine you're taller and heavier than me. Thanks again man!!

Hello, how do you know the volume of the table?

Great vids. Thanks. As a relative beginner I still get confused, when paddling out toward an oncoming surfer, about how to read what they are doing and get out of their way. Really don't enjoy the occasional snarls I get from them when I read it wrong. Any suggestions or ground rules.

Hahaha do it more like I had a choice. Nah I’ll just go down the block where it’s overhead barreling

what is the name of the blue board ? i love it

I like those sunglasses are they Oakleys?

Sick boys! When you're flying down the line trying to build speed, whats your weight distribution between your front and back leg? Are you putting more than 50% on your front leg to drive you down the line? I feel like on a skateboard it doesn't matter too much its more about the craving to generate speed. But I've seen clips of john john flying down the wave where it looks like he's almost putting no weight on his back foot at all?

Speed points is clever

Question: Your recommendations about volume... I am confused, it seems low. Small and somewhat weak waves I would go for 33-36L board.. I consider myself intermediate and weigh "only" 65kg - maybe the thick 7mm winter wetsuit that we need here in Denmark adds 4-5kg, but still..

filippe toledo is the hammer

Would love to near which side of Aus this is.

I personally prefer to ride small waves not to mention in QLD, AUS the waves are usually around 1-3ft

I'm U.S.A east coast New England. Those wave you're showing me are solid waist high. That's not really small to me. Try knee and thigh high. I found 1, you want to catch at the angle you want to go, stick to the wall while catching it and don't get so low you have to do a bottom turn. 2, You need to stick in that place on the face that has the power. You'll probably sink on a slow peeling wave so you need to find fast ones. Big wave, over head, the fear makes me run way ahead of the curl on the first wave or two. I look back and am disappointed as I see the power at the curl way behind me and i'm on this weak round mound. After those first waves I blew. I make sure to got to the bottom on takeoff and do a bottom turn. It keeps me in the curl.

what camera do you use??