Book "Be Your Own Surf Coach"
Every surfer has the same problem. You know something in your surfing is off, but you can't work out what, so you paddle out and do the same things wrong over and over, hoping it sorts itself out. It doesn't, because you can't fix what you can't see, and no one out there is telling you what's actually going wrong.
Be Your Own Surf Coach hands you that eye. It's built around the most common problems surfers run into, 47 of them, with 141 fixes, so instead of guessing you can look up exactly what's happening in your surfing and know how to correct it. Can't generate speed, keep falling off the top, can't link your turns, board feels unresponsive. Whatever it is, you find the problem, understand why it's happening, and get the fix.
The whole point is to make you self-sufficient. Once you can spot your own mistakes and know how to work on them, every session becomes useful instead of just more time in the water grooving the same habits. You stop waiting to magically improve and start actually coaching yourself towards it.
It's a physical paperback, yours to keep in the car or the boot bag and go back to whenever your surfing hits a wall.
The Book Surfers Keep In The Car
Feedback from customers reading through the Be Your Own Surf Coach book.
You did well to create something a surfer can refer to before and after a surf to self-analyse. Putting what we do into words is no easy feat, the body movements required to execute manoeuvres are so complex, but you did it well.
Found the book easy to read. It's helped me reaffirm the basics.
The book is very directional and it helps a lot. Making sure I put my front foot above the lip first had a drastic effect fixing my frontside reo turn. I really felt it!