Surf Blog to Make You a Better Surfer

Getting pitched over the nose on the takeoff feels like bad luck or a wave that was too fast. It is almost never either. Pearling comes down to a small number of fixable things, and usually just one.

Across these articles I have shared the core of the ESC method: eyes, compression, and arms. These three things, done in order, separate surfers who progress from surfers who plateau.

Watch your arms during your next turn. For most surfers they are passive: they move, but they do not direct. Here is the simple idea we use to change that.