One of the best things you can do is to acquire quality knowledge on surfing techniques to build strong foundations. Asking questions and sharing experiences with other more experienced surfers will help you make new connections and discover different learning paths. Sometimes you can discover a new technique, for an example, a change in the way that you paddle can dramatically increase the amounts of waves you catch. This is why we’re passionate about surf progression.

Is it all about practicing for hundreds or thousands of hours? It is a common saying that the key to improving your surf skills is to spend a lot of time in the water.



“You can shoot eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, all you become is good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down, and the level of everything you do will rise.” Of course, practice is one of the major differences between you and expert surfers. Through years of practice, the brains of expert surfers produce highly specialized mental representations. That allow them to make faster more accurate decisions, responding to many types of waves. If you think about it to surf a wave properly, experienced surfers need to read the future. To do a maneuver like a roundhouse cutback, surfers need to predict how the wave is going to peel in the next few seconds. This way they can estimate how they are going to draw their line and get back to hit the lip. A quick analysis is only possible once a surfer has surfed a massive number of waves.



There is no denying that practice can help a surfer improve, whether it is learning to recognize which unbroken waves are catchable or being able to anticipate when a wave’s about to barrel. As surfers progress, the decisions need to be made faster with more precision and this doesn’t happen without practice. However, if it was just about hours of practice and experience, why do some golfers, tennis players or surfers who have been practicing for decades, stayed at the exact same level for years. If it was just about practice, wouldn’t anybody that surfs or plays golf often automatically excel at these sports. One major reason why people stay at the same level is the illusion of knowing. For an example, are you sure you know how to efficiently paddle on a surfboard? Do you really know how to generate speed on a wave or set yourself up for a deep bottom turn? After digging a bit, you might realize that, there were some key things that you overlooked and that was preventing you from progressing. Surfing is a complex and fascinating sport. We know that on our side, our team members are still learning new things even though we’ve all been surfing for more than a decade. Looking back at our surf progression we notice the same pattern over and over. It has often caused us to hit a plateau. Our brain tricks us by making us believe that we’ve already got a technique figured out when in reality there’s lots of room for improvement. Being aware of this pattern will help you switch your mindset, the more you train yourself to be open to new information and relearn or to add to what you thought you previously knew, the faster you progress.



One of the best things you can do is to acquire quality knowledge on surfing techniques to build strong foundations. Asking questions and sharing experiences with other more experienced surfers will help you make new connections and discover different learning paths. Sometimes you can discover a new technique, for an example, a change in the way that you paddle can dramatically increase the amounts of waves you catch. This is why we’re passionate about surf progression.

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