#tracetribe

Lately, I have only been using Trace up for personal use. It takes a bit of time to get familiar with the procedures but its like anything else, once you get used to it it’s very easy and quick to set up.

You can get all your stats by syncing Trace up to your phone. If you want to add an extra dimension, you can also get footage of your surfing and use the Trace software to display those stats on your videos so it looks like Robocop was watching you surf! What this means is that you can get real time feedback of your surfing performance.

BEFORE

AFTER

If you are like me and enjoy having post session discussions AKA be stoked about surfing, you will really appreciate using Trace so you can actually know how radical or lame your second turn was on that epic wave.

I am looking forward to implement Trace up into my surf coaching, as I believe this is the future of surfing and that it’s just super cool. It’s made surfing a lot more fun for me.

I highly recommend Trace to any keen surfers and surf coaches out there who want to improve their surfing and have more fun doing it. If you simply enjoy knowing and sharing your surf session with friends, Trace is deffinitely for you. How many waves did you catch? I bet you I’ve caught more!

This is a guest post written by Tim Boulenger, originally from Tahiti and now at university in Australia, surfing the Gold Coast on a daily basis with Trace! 

This is part of our #TraceTribe blog series where we take a look at how some of our users use their Trace

We are trying to improve our surfing ability so we can do better in contests and hopefully win world championships someday. Our parents always take video of us from the beach and we have manually counted our waves in the past but it’s not fun to count while you are trying to concentrate on your surfing.

When we saw the Trace online it was still a brand new product. We wanted to get it so we could get all the statistics on our speed, wave count, length of ride, etc. But what really appealed to us the most was that it shows you how many degrees you turn the board on each maneuver. It’s really helped us improve from that point. And it makes surfing more fun. Leila caught 151 waves this month and burned 2,382 calories. That’s just so cool!

When my parents get the shots of our good waves, the Trace information makes our videos look technical. It sort of reminds us of a video game where the numbers are all displayed on the bottom and we are the game characters. Our videos are more unique with the trace info and looks upgraded from the regular posts on social media with cool information in the clips. Colors are brighter too and they just look more professional. Plus it takes zero time. We just drag and drop.

It’s so easy to use. My parents just film us and then we drag it into the Trace video app. The video and our clips come back with cool stats overlaid.

Since we started using Trace our surfing has really improved and our contest results are better too. It’s fun!