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Closeouts, bailing off your board, close calls with other surfers and tackling confidence being out there in the waves. These are all problems that can be improved with one aspect of our surfing that most beginner to intermediate surfers avoid altogether. I recently helped Brian from Longboard Sessions on our platform longboardsessions.com to make some drastic improvements and all by changing just one thing. This has significantly improved his surfing and his approach to the wave and lineup and it can do the same for you today. In today's video we'll break down in detail the lessons I've shared with Brian to drastically improve his surfing so after watching this edit you can do the same. If you are new here my name is Ben Considine and I'm a professional longboarder, surf coach, physio and I started a platform called longboardsessions.com all to help surfers experience the best in their surfing and today I'm here to help you unlock your surfing potential no matter where you're at. I'm going to create a little wave here just thinking about how I want to draw this one. I think we're going to draw it so it's like this and we're going to have the wave like so we're going to be going in this direction so we're going right even though I'm a goofy footer I think it'll be better for this example and we've actually got a closeout section that's happening here so we can say this is a bunch of white water and this is what we've got coming up to us this is only maybe a two foot wave okay so it's a smaller wave and I'm doing this because I think it's something that we can a lot of us can resonate with and this is where I want people to start focusing on if they haven't already and then of course there's some more high level advanced things that I do want you to be aware of as well that we'll cover soon so it's a two foot wave and for context you know the board is this big and we are this big okay so we've got this little section coming towards it's a manageable section it's not too big it's nothing too scary and this is what we're going to learn to approach so the first one that we're going to do we are going to call our low angle off the top what this means is that we don't need this massive bottom turn to draw off the bottom to then get our angle kind of 12 o'clock of the board coming towards the top of the wave and then doing a massive reel or anything like that all we want is to do a nice balanced and measured hit off the lip and we really just want to follow the board around and I'll describe to you what I mean here so what we've got is we've got this little hypothetical guy here he's very happy they're going across the wave okay now for this scenario we spoke about we don't need that big bottom turn up to hit the lip just yet that's going to go within our high angle off the lip but what we want to do is we do want to make sure that we're looking at this section and that we're looking at the crest of the wave and for this one what we really want to be doing is we actually want to ride into and above this section here so one of the key mistakes that we usually see for people when they're going for an off the top is firstly where they don't have a lot of speed and they don't have a lot of power they go for this big off the top where they try and generate a really big bottom turn they lose all of their speed by the time they get to the top of the wave and therefore it just doesn't really work the other thing that happens is people thinking that they need to go over this section here so they might engage even if they're going for a low angle off the top they might come across here and then get to the top of the wave here rather than where the wave or the crest actually is and we would just say that this is a mistimed off the top what will happen here is they will kind of just go off the back of the wave which gives us a bit of a hint for what we want to do when we do our kickoffs as well this is getting pretty messy just let me rub this off for a second all right that's our section here okay and so the line that we want to be taking for this one is we want to do a really really shallow inside rail engagement just before we get to the the crest of the wave and then we want to meet the lip at the top here okay so we're going to ride into and over that now the key things that i do want to really really harp on with this one today is once we get here is we don't have to do a whole lot once we're here if we position the board as i'm about to speak about we just want to hold ourselves in position come into a stable stance so that we're nice and low wide stance so that we can actually just then allow the board to react to the wave oftentimes we think at this point we need to do a big kind of big whip off the top like you'll see all the shortboarders gabe john john all of that doing not for us not right now all we want to be doing once we engage here is we just want to stay low and stay stable it will bring us back down to the bottom of the wave but in terms of positioning for this here the key things that we want to be doing is firstly if we consider the board we need to make sure that we are in the back third of the board the reason is we do have to make use of the tail here what we want to be doing even if we use maybe i use my marker here so if this is our board at the moment if we have the white water here and we just ride straight into it that's not an ideal scenario because what we're going to do is we're just going to essentially plow the board through the white water it's going to get caught it's going to get stuck it's not going to go very very well it'll make us wobbly and off balance and we probably won't even make it down to the again what we instead want to do is we want to actually open up the underside of our longboard or of our surfboard to the white water okay so that the white water will actually connect with the underside of the white water now if we think about what's happening to the board as we're doing our little engagement of the inside rail here what is actually happening is we're tilting the board this way so it can go up the face of the wave so we want to actually re-adjust the board so that instead of having that inside rail engaged we now have that outside rail engaged and if you think about the white water as being this here again we're not going to plow into it we're going to switch onto the other rail and we're going to allow ourselves or the white water to connect with the underside of the board once we've connected with the underside of the board at the correct place right there we're going to get low and we're going to stay nice and stable hands by either side of the board and we're going to allow that that wave to just take us back down what will happen for sure is once you get here if you engage the underside of the board correctly you will just do a little float over the top and you'll come down and ride it out okay so we don't need any push any uh any kicking of the tail or anything like that at the moment if we make sure that we're not doing too much of a big bottom turn into it because again we need a lot of speed or a lot of critical nature if we're going to do that so if we don't do that we utilize our little inside rail engagement we come back into the back third of the board so the tail so that we can actually adjust the board properly and then we allow that underside of the board to engage with the white water and then we're going to come down really nicely if getting on top of things in this way is a little bit interesting to you then feel free to go have a look at longboardsessions.com it's made to create the best learning environment possible so hopefully catch you in there and as always thank you so much for all the new members who have signed up for longboardsessions.com over the last week it's been an absolute blast going through this with you on the site and I love seeing everyone progress and again it means a lot to me to support my own goals of creating more content like this and helping surfers full-time so once again I do really really appreciate it and if you found this video valuable then feel free to watch this video here where we walk through Anthea's fast one day surf progression with focusing on only one simple correction