Surf Strength Coach

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If your Knee Hurts… Your Surfing Hurts

What this article will not be is an anatomy lesson. What it will be is a few simple things for you to start doing if you’ve got some knee funk…. cause knee funk turns into surf funk.

My official Leg Work… Get Rid Of Knee Funk

You can read below for a bit more info on the knee, and how the ankle and hip and their surrounding tissue can effect the joint.

THAT’S A LOT OF INFO…  IF YOU WANT MORE INSIGHT INTO STRETCHING, PAIN RELIEF, TISSUE WORK, FOAM ROLLING, HIP MOBILITY, POSTURE, AND DYNAMIC STRETCHING FOR THE ENTIRE BODY….   CHECK OUT MY FULL Learn to Surf

PERFORMANCE PYRAMID.. THIS HEIRARCHY NEEDS TO BE CLEAR

Skill practice is in the water. Quit trying to be overly “functional” with your training. Save the “functional training” for your surf time.

Skill… hire a technique coach. I have, and it was awesome, and I’ll do it again. Unless your Slater, or one of the other top guys, you probably have some really bad habits in the surf, and you’re probably not even aware of it. Get a coach, get filmed, see how bad you suck, then improve. Skill is gained in the water. The same can be said for golf, playing a piano, bjj, so just hire a coach.

Foundations Training

Waves are not measured in feet and inches, they are measured in increments of fear.

Wiping out is an underappreciated skill.

Joint Health & Movement Drills

Movement.  That’s the key.

Modern living doesn’t require it.  Convenience of technology has taken out the need to use your

body.  No longer do people have to move 3-dimensionally in their day to day living.

Then you combine that complete lack of movement, the lack of joint mobility, the lack of awareness of how to even move your body, with surfing, and that will create problems.  You gotta move man!  If you can’t, some pain problems can potentially arise, and those suck.  If not pain, then you’re severely limiting your potential.

If you can’t move well, you can’t be strong in dynamic positions, and that will lead to a lack of power, or movement capacity.  If you can move well, if you can be strong in movement, then you have more potential.  You throw that potential onto your time in the water, and it allows for an “athletic buffer”.  Your body has the capacity to move the way you want it to, and surfing requires a lot of movement.

Again, movement, that’s the key.  Keep reading and watch the video, you’ll get a list of Stretches for Surfers focusing on the Upper Body, and how to restore movement.

GET LOOSE AND MOVE!

If you can’t move well, you sure can’t surf well. As a surfer, dynamic flexibility and ease of movement is truly important to not only surf with some style, but to stay injury free as well….. or you can just keep poo-stancing and looking rad!

Seriously, as surfers, we’ve got to be quickly mobile, and free of tissue restrictions to move the way we really need to

in the water.  Loose fluid movements…. with some stylezzzzz!

The Key To Fluid Stylezzzz…..  flexibility within the muscle slings or myofascial slings of the body to promote full body flexibility . Get into some Surfing Exercises.

Read More Here: STRETCHES FOR SURFERS

How To Improve Your Surf Fitness

How To Improve Your Surf Fitness

Here's a full body weight routine to increase durability from the "core".  Core being muscles that stabilize the spine and control the pelvis.  This is way more than just some crunches.

Every failure is an opportunity to learn. That is the nature of life and the nature of surfing.

Learn more: https://surfstrengthcoach.com/how-to-wipeout/