Are those lories in the background?

Congrats! All the best!

Thanks Ben Considine, always sharing good information and tips it helps a lot

Great! I liked your shorter videos, sometimes it’s difficult to watch big videos, 10m I think it’s perfect Looking forward for the next

I usa raked fin and I’ve found that if ya put the fin forwards for turns and at the back for drive

covid kooks are selling their boards and moving on - time to get a real job"coach"

i love the casual shak when you speak hahahhaha yiew

Thanks Ben. Another informative video. This series on the soft skills is really useful and a great reminder of a few key things to focus on, to help some of us continue to progress in this intermediate stage. I surf a lot of beach breaks in Port Stephens, NSW, where close-outs greet us most mornings 😉. So, the last part of this video was particularly relevant (trying to push through a partial close-out to keep in front of the section). I'm wondering if you have any guidance on techniques for actually achieving the acceleration in such incidences to drive through, or around, the white water to get back in front of it, when it starts to shut-down a little in front of you? P.S. I quite like the music (but I find life is generally better with music). If anything, your whiteboard skills are a bigger distraction 😜 (just jokes, as I know it is not easy, and your scrawlings do add value in communicating the messages). In all honesty, I think a lot of us would be disappointed if the acoustic guitar went. A possible compromise could be to add subtitles (with all that spare time you have), so it can be muted and we still get the message...

Great Video. Ben what do you recommend for board sizing. I've ridden everything from 9'0" to 10'0". Never really found the sweetspot. I"m 6'0" 185lbs. Considering a 9'6" 23" 3 1/8'"

Tx Ben, great Vid :) Question: what do you do with your feet when paddling in ? I and a lot of other people lift their feet in the air to get momentum. But I'm not sure if this helps on all waves, sometimes the wave hits the feet before the pop up.

Been watching lots of your vids man and they’ve helped me lots. You’ve got good tips and ride so smooth and casually 🤙

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Thanks. BTW, I find the music really distracting without adding any benefit.

Thanks for the advices, planning on braking out of the jail soon😂

Thanks

So if you would rather catch a wave from a little wider, all those that paddle inside you have priority? Narrr, you see if none of them are making it to the shoulder nobody gets a ride. That's stupid and further more just because you have more speed doesn't give you any more rights than anyone else. Some people think that the next wave is always theirs and some people think they can hate you of the break (especially those 20+ wannabe JJFs). Nar to that too.

The best noseride tutorial I've ever seen, thank so much for putting this together. Keen to start using some of these tips in my surfing. Stocked!!! Thanks so much and keep these vids coming. So very useful!

Great point of hunting for the wave and holding so that you end up in the most likely spot that the wave breaks. Love these sessions 🤙

Great editing video, super!! Pro longboarding + pro editing ❤ this was super fun

Do I go straight or when you take off do you do where you take off and that's where the take will be?

Good info.

Good luck 🍀

great breakdown

Why are you moving your feet when paddling ? Does it help to get more speed ? I always keep my legs flat when paddling. Is it a mistake ? Thanks for your vids

Thanks again for all these tutorials Ben!

At my break people catch a wave then paddle back to the outside and will catch the next wave. So annoying.

it's simple enough when you're all on longboards queuing up for a nice reefy, but when you've got everything from logs to toothpicks all going for the same beachbreaks and working different different depths depending on how early they can take off, it becomes mad max. i love to ride a fish but that usually means i want the same rolling waves as the longboarders, who can paddle into them a good 10-15 feet further out. even if you've been waiting out there an hour, the chances of a pack of loggers voluntarily letting a nice shape pass through them just for everyone else waiting on the inside are approximately 0. so if you're not bringing foam, if it's a good day at a known spot you usually have to leave your expectations for fairness at the door and grab whatever scraps you can.

Congrats, Ben. Go well on your travels. Thanks for all the tips.

Only realised I missed the 'G' in in navigating on the white board after posting 😂 how'd I miss that haha..

Thanks Ben. Can't believe I've never thought of that technique for the Y axis 👍

Great video and format. One improvement would be to add timestamps for long videos like this so viewers could easily return to sections.

Raffs was like this last weekend..... It was just beautiful 👍

Thank you! Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

Most definitely

Definitely a full tutorial on duck diving would be great!🙏🏽

The timing to use turtle roll and shooting over techniques? Use Shooting through techniques when wave form a curve shape and near breaking in front of you? (I tried to use turtle roll for this situation, but most of time it doesn’t work) and i saw most shot-boarder use duck dive in this situation Use Turtle roll when the wave become white water

Just received my grey Glide Hoodie. 👍🏽Feels soft and looks like a quality piece. Hood lays down properly and sleeves are long enough. Nice to support Ben and his channel that has really helped this beginner.

Shaka Ben🌊🤙🏼

Great advice Ben,Cheers 🌊🏄🏽‍♂️

Glad i found your channel Ben! this is great

super helpful video. thx m8!

On the xy alignement. There is a method used in sailing called alignments. Applied to surf, when you are at the peak, you just have to pick 3 points ( works ok with 2 points) on land that align on 2 different axis ( the axis don’t have to be perpendicular) as long as you can see those 2 alignments you’re in the sweet spot. I often use branch of trees aligned with house in the background, and road sign with parked car

encouraging talk. thanks 🤙🏼 Bra. Congrats on your qualifier. Psyched for you, Get it!

Well done Ben. Looking forward to seeing how you get on this year. Thanks for the video, the wave shape thing was new to me, obvious as soon as you point it out 🙄🤙

Ben this was awesome thanks loads. I so struggle with where to sit and wave selection so this really helped

Hey Ben, congrars to the qualification!! That's amazing. As a physicist, oceanographer, climate scientist and shaper as it coemes to positioning in the line up, you always need 2 markers for each axis. Lining these 2 markers up you will be at the correct line for that first direction ( a house and a tree or a tree and darker sand or srones at the beach ) now in order to be at the correct distance from the shore you pick up another 2 marker looking more sideways. With that you have two perfectly defined lines and right where these 2 lines intersect ( both pair of marker line up ) you are at the spot you wanted to be. The second pair of markers can also be your first ones as in your example with the visibility of the house ( only roof, windows or the whole house ). Here you actually use the third dimension ( z-axis ) for your second bearing. Physics is amazing. So great that you talk about this topic. It is so valuable Information that had never been written down and everybody had to learn it the hard way. Did you recieved my e-mail? Hope to see you in Europe Best Martin 🤙🏻

Great video! Perfect advice for where I am at in my surfing. For excited that you qualified! Wishing you best of luck! I really like the white board, helps a lot!

Thanks Ben! Congrats on qualifying 🔥 let’s talk about finishing 🙏🏼💫

Thanks Ben, the whiteboard was great to put words into perspective!! All the best for the year. Cheers.

Thx again for all this information, super helpfull, and good luck and lots of fun at Bells Beach!!