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Sascha Reichert - 6 years ago

thanks for this clips helps a lot to understand

CW Rodriguez - 6 years ago

Surfing sucks, don't try it.

JorgeAndresCoppiano. - 6 years ago

Greaaaat great video and technique! Thanks a lot!

Surf Insight - 6 years ago

Thanks and hope to see you one day at one of our schools too. http://www.surfschoolsrilanka.com/ or http://www.surfschoolanzarote.com/ But in the mean time do fire off any surf or surf training related questions that we can help you with

JorgeAndresCoppiano. - 6 years ago

Maaaaan!

Surf Insight - 6 years ago

philip lock - 6 years ago

Hey dude i can hear your a Boyo ! Im from just over the water in somerset but please where did first surf was it Pembrokeshire Devon or Cornwall? Fantastic videos new subs here

Jose Bonilla - 6 years ago

Thank you master. Amazing class.

Surf Insight - 6 years ago

Thanks Jose... We hope we get to coach you one day at one of our schools www.surfschoolanzarote.com or www.surfschoolsrilanka.com but do ask any coaching questions you may have of course.

MIchael Fireborn - 6 years ago

Nice one!

19le1 - 6 years ago

Hey surf insight, recently I've started surfing again and I love your videos! Been a huge help. I have been practicing my pop up on land but I just can't seem to not stand on my knees before I stand. Its so frustrating because it takes me so long to get up. So do you have any tips or could explain what I'm doing wrong. It would be a huge help. Thanks so much for the video!

Surf Insight - 6 years ago

A couple things you could check on then. Do you hold the rails at the moment of take off ? Thats really not going to help and adds to going to your knees.. Make sure that your not looking down into the board but with vision across the wave and sometimes a little in front .. Do make sure you have checked your not going to drop in on anyone first of course . Taking your vision away from the board can help a lot .. try those simple things and come back to us

19le1 - 6 years ago

Thanks so much for replying! The issue is I'm able to do the full flick jump and hands toes jump easy on land but as soon as I get in the surf I just can't help but get on my knees.

Surf Insight - 6 years ago

Hi there .. some times , if your trying the full flick jump that you see in our videos it can be a matter of strength, timing , flexibility .. a number of things . So try to learn the Hands Toes Jump method first .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJWYpNS_s_A and see if that leads you into the other jump " Flick Jump" BUT if you want you can send me a clip of your pop up practise at home by We Transfer to info@surfschoolsrilanka.com and I can take a look at it for you ?

Maazin Ahamed - 6 years ago

Thank you so much Tim for helping me out to improve my shortboard take off the other day at the beach. You are such an inspirational human being doing so much for the Sri Lankan local surf scene.

Surf Insight - 6 years ago

Hi Maazin. It's been great to watch how the techniques have been working for you when watching our last few surfs .. really good and just thinking your way through is down to you too. Its a pleasure to help Sri Lanka's surfing .. I'm a guest here really and I know its good to give back of course but lots of fun too.

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mauii - 6 years ago

thats a sick intro

Gabriel Lima - 6 years ago

how old are you?

Jaren Ladia - 6 years ago

Surf Insight wow

Surf Insight - 6 years ago

60 at the moment Gabriel

Jon-Erik Solaas - 7 years ago

Ya dude so great that you are uploading new vids, and it got so much better on coaching someone who cant feedback instantly like alive session, great to see, thumbs up dude :)

Jon-Erik Solaas - 7 years ago

Surf Insight cool, Sri Lanka is definitely something I'll check out

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Thanks so much and hope we get to coach you one day too. Check out http://www.surfschoolsrilanka.com/ and http://www.surfschoolanzarote.com/

Pasha Tikhonov - 7 years ago

Wow, you lost a lot of weight ))))) I think we all need a dedicated flick jump video ))) (even more detailed than the one you've already posted...)
Thank you for what you are doing.

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Hi Pasha. Hope your well . I lost tons of weight working on the centre in Sri Lanka and put some back on now .. all good.. Glad you liked the videos

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Thanks Nathan .. do ask any surf related question you may have too and hope we see you at one of our schools one day

Super Hot Bats - 7 years ago

That logo is so rad

Bernardo Petená Furlanetto - 7 years ago

Awesome video. Subscribed :). But how about a shorter board? I've just bought a 6'5 fish.

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Hi Bernardo... just use the second technique with the "flick" of the legs and that works for any board length .. long or short.

Emily Tuffen - 7 years ago

Great video, thanks! Never occurred to me to use my legs for momentum to help me pop before...! Will be trying this next time I go.

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

should help a lot Emily.. its not just "our" technique ,but just what people do naturally

vinchino - 7 years ago

This pop up is only for longboards. Quick pop up on shortboard is the real difficult one

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

ah no ... the first pop up demonstrated is used for longer boards when learning and the second pop up is used at all levels and and all boards. So if your struggling with pop ups on short boards use the second technique with the flick in the legs.

Margarida Pinto - 7 years ago

Where is your surf school? There are so many surf schools here in Portugal, but you teach so well I already want to travel and learn with you ahah! Your videos are the best!! Greetings from Portugal

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Hi .. we are at www,surfschoolanzarote.com and www.surfschoolsrilanka.com ..hope we see you there one day

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Casey Grace - 7 years ago

I've been doing a slow two-step pop up for ages. Found this video today, took my old foamie out on the floor and done 30 straight to my feet :O can't wait to try this in the water tomorrow. Thanks for the great tips :)

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Thats great to hear.. men can be a dumb and just "do" till they then get it right and dont use any analysis of what they are doing very often .. just try to get there .. but that a good and a bad thing . They often dont over think techniques . Women on the other hand are aware of what they are doing and can get stuck on a fault in a technique .. you wont however ..but if you are still landing one foot in front of the other dont worry about it .. it will come and especially with dry land practise changing the muscle memory . Go for it and the more good drive you have in the arms and positive flick the more the legs will land at the same time.

Casey Grace - 7 years ago

Saw a huge improvement the first day I tried the flick jump! My back foot is still landing first then my front but I'll just keep at it! Thanks

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Well done Grace .. tell us how it worked for you please and hope we see you one day at http://www.surfschoolsrilanka.com/ or http://www.surfschoolanzarote.com/ Please firs off any surf related questions in the meantime

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Excellent Corey ! That's exactly what I tell the people I coach .. you look where you go and where you look you will go.

Eric Wiatt - 7 years ago

The way you teach people to pop up makes the transition to a shortboard/fish very difficult. I know since you are a surf school you want to teach the easiest method but in the long run it is WORSE for beginners to learn the pop up this way. Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSOD4qsG9Go and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pti202SiePs . These guys are RIGHT ON and my pop up has improved a ton!!! Just a thought.

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Glad to hear those techniques in the links you sent me work well for you. The method we show is not the easiest but the quickest .. dont forget there are 2 techniques shown. The techniques shown are used with flexible and reasonably strong upper level beginner surfers but we use exactly the same technique with national champions and WQS surfers. We analysed how quickest jump ups were being done, over 35 years .. no matter the type of board... and the results come out in 70% of instances with the second technique we show. However as you have found out .. it may not work for you.

Santiago Franz - 7 years ago

Many have said this in the comment section, but this channel is highly underrated! awesome lessons and teaching method! .. dear friend, i've watched almost all of your videos, and would like to ask you a question, i'm having certain trouble with the timing of the wave, im on a longboard and just started surfing and i cant seem to get the right timing to do the pop-up .. would you have some tips for me? thanks a lot!

Santiago Franz - 7 years ago

dear friend, right now im trying to catch unbroken waves! .. i have a hard time gettin the right time in certain waves, i mean, usually it feels right to pop up when the tail of the board starts lifting, but then in other waves it doesnt really work that well, any advice would be lovely and im grateful! thanks for answering to my comment, means a lot!

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

hi .. thats a tough question without seeing you surf but and its a big but .. one of the biggest keys is your vision . so many people just focus ahead like a horse in blinkers and do pay attention the the wave they are catching and so dont know the moment when they should jump up. Tell me are you trying to catch the unbroken wave or are still in the white water ?

craigwoolnough - 7 years ago

Hi Tim, i went to your school for 3 days in lanza a couple of years ago....i was sunburnt i think, and really struggled with paddling in my wetsuit due to my skin being inflamed!!?? i also became friends with jamie, and his gf. Who took me and my dad out one evening to real lanza which was so cool. too....... might come and see you later this year as id love to surf in warm waters with no wetsuit ?? ha! Hope alls well with the new school .Stay loose!
Cheers!
Craig From Kent

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Hi Craig.. thats great you spotted this . Jamie's here coaching and charging some very large waves at times. All good. Do you get surf back home ? Would be really cool to have you over in Sri Lanka and you'd love the waves and no wet suit too. Did we do you a board as well ?

B10Billion - 7 years ago

Good tutorial, but it's missing the most important step in every takeoff: glancing over your shoulder before popping up to make sure you aren't dropping in on someone!

Perpetual Student - 7 years ago

YEEEESSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Thanks for that and glad you liked the vid. Checking that your not going to drop by looking down the line would be good do be doing way before that point . Even paddling for the same wave ( shadowing ) hoping they wont get it can be so off putting. If we are in our final paddle strokes just before take off and we have to check that were not going to drop in we are doing that way too late. The vid is really about the physical aspect of the pop up. We cover the drop in in this old vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5z7l_W6pPs it address's a bit of that stuff but a new one with real in the water scenarios would be better for sure .

Connor Pearson - 7 years ago

I would also say that the back foot should be over the fins after you pop up. you probably do this unconsciously so you don't mention it.

if your foot is two or three feet in front of the fins, you'll never do carving turns or throw spray.

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Hi Conner. We are using the balance board / soft board as a platform for practise in the video. We have a new video about back foot positioning coming up using a "real" board and foot patch. Not sure when thats posted but here's and old one. But in this one too the soft board is only used as a platform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scB3SRbZI0s The new video video is better due to using a short board. Thanks for your input

Darren Huang - 7 years ago

Did he lose like shit loads of weight?

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

I did Darren. 18 months in Sri Lanka starting a new school , building work and coaching combined with a really low protein diet wipes 20K off me. Too much but some needed to go. So I feel better and on a mission to put on a few kilo more.

Ricardo Ferreira - 7 years ago

Que praia é essa?

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Un pequeño secreto en Sri Lanka

Gunnar Moeller - 7 years ago

On a wave the board falls into it, making you more like straighten out, cause you're not popping up, like upwards. Make the drop not the pop !!!

wyzapple - 7 years ago

Gunnar Moeller Yes, on steeper, faster waves...you pretty much just throw the board under you while dropping weightless. More of a reaction rather than a thought. Good call Gunnar!

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Check out Mick @ 3:30 to get a good example WSL is sick for repeats of technique . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cCyf1XIyI Definitely didn't choose this to fuel the " Julian is under scored " issue

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J. Sherlock - 7 years ago

I did a two step motion that I could get away with most of the time except when the waves were really steep. Was always jealous of surfers that can stand up and get in the barrel in one motion like a no-paddle drop in.

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Thanks for that comment. If we check the pro tour or most top surfing there's not too many times when you will see absolutely no paddling taking place but good timing and a quick one movement pop up is often accompanied by just a few well timed strong stokes. Not in huge waves however and in most cases we need to paddle for sure. Timing is always the key.

Gregory Herrera - 7 years ago

Instant subscribe. Just saw this video and after it was done went on to your channel and checked out a bunch of your older vids. Best surf instruction channel on Youtube. You're knowledgeable and coherent. The analogies you use are awesome and always make sense. Wish I had discovered this channel earlier. Keep it up!!

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Thanks so much Gregory. We will keep posting these short Surf Insight tutorials but most will have links to more in the older in depth videos . Although the old ones didn't get too many hits thats where the real coaching takes place but do fire off any technical questions you may have in the meantime.

Tristan Forbes - 7 years ago

Great vid mate! Are you in the Abay area?

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Hi Tristan . We are in the South in Kabalana but closed till start of November. Hope we can get to coach you sometime at http://www.surfschoolanzarote.com/ and http://www.surfschoolsrilanka.com one day

Kevin Dube - 7 years ago

thanks for the video ... as someone recovering from a hip replacement who has had a really slow and painful pop up due to arthritic hip pain for the last 5 years I'm looking forward to retraining myself to pop up quickly.

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

wow if your surgeon says you can play squash thats awesome and your taking training super seriously so I really hope all goes well for you.

Kevin Dube - 7 years ago

for sure. it's going to be a while I'm only two months post op.. I can t even go in the surf for another month... I am doing some pop ups under water in the pool though...

it should be OK my surgeon has said that I could play squash ... this should be no worse than that for impact

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Hi Kevin. Thanks and do make sure that the physios tell you its all OK to make that type of movement but its more the impact of landing in training you have to consider. always do a good stretch before the training or surfing . All the best

Kevin Dube - 7 years ago

before I actually had to drag my feet in the wave to slow myself down because my get up was so slow. I'm hoping I'll be able to pop up like you are soon

Phil Murphy - 7 years ago

The quikest pop up technigue is to bury the tail in the water just before the wave

breaks and stand up-no paddle take off -used on close -out waves

Marik 444 - 7 years ago

"just saying mate. Enjoy the 3 foot slop"

Seems like a retarded comment. As if surfers enjoy 3 foot slop rather than having to deal with it.

Cool Snapper Rocks reference, Kelly.

greenhouse Productions - 7 years ago

surfbum482 just saying mate. Enjoy the 3 foot slop

surfbum482 - 7 years ago

greenhouse Productions depends on the wave bud. Sure you wouldn't do it at snapper but at punchy little beach breaks it's the best technique that's all he's trying to say you sound like the biggest douche ever

greenhouse Productions - 7 years ago

Phil Murphy try that technique behind the rock at snapper rocks....youd go straight over the falls. I think you been surfing to much 3 foot slop mate lol

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

thats true .. I do remember a past Euro champ who almost only used that technique when in smaller waves but kind of limiting in anything with size

Fl R - 7 years ago

It works but it really depends on the situation. It usually happens when you are paddling back out, someone falls off a wave and you rapidly snag it. But if you're setup in the line up you'll nearly always get a better takeoff from paddling in, even if it's only 1 or 2 strokes.

bobice555 - 7 years ago

yea, i had misread the email regarding burying the tail. my bad. i thought he was saying as you were paddling. definitely, on a no paddle takeoff (my crew and i refer to it as the lazy paddle), the wave is faced, you're under the lip, shove the tail into the water and its buoyancy slingshots you forward. a bit sketch for country but most other spots when the wave isn't way steep, it's a technique you can use.

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

indeed ! so many waves to catch a wave .. as the wave dictates

Vi Diamond - 7 years ago

I live in hawaii as well and I do shove in pop ups all the time on every wave I surf as long as I'm in the right position. If I'm a little out of position then will do the standard scrap and scratch in. The more techniques and ways you can utilize to get into waves the better off you will be. But at the end of the day, just do what gets you the most waves and stay frothy!

surfbum482 - 7 years ago

bobice555 u bury the tail a few seconds before the wave comes and then the boards buoyancy with slingshot u forward into the wave. U can add a few paddles as u shoot forward and you'll get dropped right into the pocket. Timing is key of course

Marik 444 - 7 years ago

Ah, so the wave just shoots you into the perfect position on your board with no other technique/effort required on your end. I must learn this magical takeoff.

"I SURF next to a cement pier inches away with 60 mile per hour winds backside i need to stand up fast."

Okay,? Didn't say what you were describing wasn't a thing or that you were lying.

Also, that's the point. you "stand up fast" after using this technique. The technique isn't really what helps you stand up quick. You couldn't teach that technique to anyone who doesn't already have a decent pop up tech already in place.

"You can still paddle if not moving fast enough."

Ah, so if I don't explode I can just paddle in? And then what, Poseidon sticks me upright on the board?

Nice try, Madison.

Phil Murphy - 7 years ago

look behind you to see the wave - if its too steep to paddle-no time -grab the front part of the board and pull down so the tail goes deeper in the water this will crouch your body then you will
explode your upper body forward this will shoot the board forward
and your hands will be in position to stand up.You can still paddle if
not moving fast enough.
I SURF next to a cement pier inches away with 60 mile per hour
winds backside i need to stand up fast.
Your comment i award you zero points- everybody is now dumber
for having heard what you said and may the lord have mercy on your soul

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

yep exactly.. thanks

Marik 444 - 7 years ago

If you are talking about what I think you are it isn't really a popup tech.

I bury the tail all the time to get quick takeoff on closeout waves. The popup still comes next.

This is more of a "No paddle take off" description. Feels like you're launching yourself out of a cannon.

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

with higher volume boards the pop can work well if you timing is dead right but we need to always vary the type of approach to paddle and take off that applies to the type of wave and power we are dealing with .

bobice555 - 7 years ago

interesting. I live in Hawaii. we don't use it here. it's all about getting the right amount of weight forward and driving hard to get under the lip to make the drop less critical.

surfbum482 - 7 years ago

bobice555 give it a shot it's a common technique here and I use it a lot with no error

bobice555 - 7 years ago

burying the tail in the water means you actively shift your weight to the back of the board which more often than not, will result in you either not getting under the lip and not catching the wave or dropping in late.

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Thanks for that and its a good old technique your describing and it works but a pop up is different from a "pop" take off that you describe. Once the tail is pushed in and the volume takes you back out and into some short quick paddle strokes you then have to jump up or " pop up " as we say

SailingSamurai - 7 years ago

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Thanks so much Hope we see you at our http://www.surfschoolanzarote.com/ and http://www.surfschoolsrilanka.com one day

Nicola Reitze - 7 years ago

Oh man, I can't even explain how stoked I'm right now seeing you uploading new videos. Your old videos are honestly one of best and most coherent I could find on you tube. I'm already looking forward to the new stuff and give you a big thanks in advance. Greetings from Germany.

Thomas Gerken - 6 years ago

totally agree with the comment above

Surf Insight - 7 years ago

Thats so nice to hear and we will recover some old topics in brief but with some good water footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZEylOTbbQY Hope we see you at our http://www.surfschoolanzarote.com/ and http://www.surfschoolsrilanka.com one day

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