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Stronger paddling without pain or fatigue

Awareness of alignment, posture and core control Stiff neck, stiff shoulders, stiff lower back. We’ve all experienced it. You may have been out of the water for a month and have lost some condition or you may be on a boat trip surfing 8 hours a day and your paddling muscles are overworked. These symptoms are common but are very rarely addressed by surfers until something breaks down. The accumulated tension, imbalance and discomfort becomes too much and our bodies fail us. We then go and visit our Chiro, Physio or Masseuse to get us back on track until the cycle begins again. There is another way. We can take responsibility for our own function and eliminate these bodily problems before they even occur. In fact, not only can we be free of pain but we can actually thrive, and feel better than we ever...

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Warming Up

Warming up – just before your session Dynamic surf specific movements Warming up is widely accepted as a useful thing to do to prepare yourself to perform better in what ever your chosen physical endeavour may be. Surfing is no different. For a lot of us, the warm up is the boring part we should go through, before we hook into the real stuff. For most surfers, the warm up is non existent, or if it is done at all, it is usually rushed and done with poor attention. When the waves are good it takes a lot of discipline to stay on the sand and go through a routine. So why do it? There needs to be a strong enough reason? Here we go. Firstly, if the waves are good, they’ll still be there in 5 -10 minutes. If they’re bad then there’s no...

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