Increase Your Amplitude
Increase Your Amplitude
Surfing is essentially a side to side pursuit for the first few years. Then, one day, places that seemed inaccessible suddenly become first probed, then thoroughly explored. Remember that first time you got up in the lip at speed and then back down? Did it seem a bit… groundbreaking? Suddenly, afterwards, it seemed like there was much more wave to be surfed, right? The up-and-down element to your surfing is essentially a result of how you think about the wave. There is no special physical, technical approach to it, it’s a mental thing. At the extreme end you’ll have the kind of amplitude shown by pros like Tristan Guilbaud (pictured), and then there’s you. Between those two points is a line of progression, and moving up results from thinking differently about where surfing can take you. You could stay in a polite mid-face trim for the rest of your surfing life, and there’s nothing ‘wrong’ with that either. But there are also whole new realms of places to go, all you have to do is open your mind to them.
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