Surfing tutorial: Improving your paddling Part 1
Surf 11 years ago 230,686 views
http://surfcoaches.com Surf Coach Mo'e from www.shakacostarica.com/ talks about the 5 most common paddling errors, and how to correct them! Paddling is the most important skill in increasing your wave count and session endurance when beginning to learn to surf.
Yesterday, 9/26, I went out for the last time this year -- last time because although thermal inertia ensured warm water, the air was freezing, and I was shivering so much that I think it affected my performance.
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If you paddle as you describe, the first part of your stroke is pushing down and backward in the water and the last part is pushing upward.
Both of these movements are inefficient and neither of these is using the full efficiency of your stroke to move your forward through the full range of motion.
The proper technique is to bend the elbow with it high but in the water and keep the surface of the hand wrist and forearm perpendicular to the water surface as you pull back. This provides the greatest surface area and the highest efficiency. This is the technique developed with CFD and countless hours of computer work by the best coaches and swimmers on the planet.
One more tip. Keep your hands relaxed and a space between all your fingers of about 1/8 to 1/4 inch. This is proven in computational fluid dynamics to be significantly more efficient than holding your fingers together (which also burns more energy and can cause hand cramps especially in cold water)
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