The Coffee Cup

This one thing will improve your surfing. Through 25 years of surf coaching, this is probably the most successful bit of coaching advice I've ever given anyone. And you'll see results straight away if you surf the coffee cup in your hand. I don't mean literally go out there with the coffee cup in your hand. I know it sounds a bit crazy, but hear me out. Think about walking with the cup of coffee in your hand. You always walk the coffee cup in front. And if you're not spilling any coffee, your balance is gonna be really good. And if I take that away and put it down, watch Ethan Ewing surf. He's always got that hand up. And it's reminiscent of the Andy Irons, Fleet Toledo. The higher the elbow goes up, the straighter your back is, the more stacked your joints are, the better your balance is. From there, your compression and extension looks on point. Your style looks amazing. So by simply holding a cup of coffee in your hand, your balance in your board is gonna dramatically improve. Then think about surfers Whenever he wants to do a real big rap, he simply just passes the coffee. If you wanna do an ask big bottom turn, right? If you take your coffee cup and you basically put it down and you fill up the coffee cup off the bottom of the wave, and as you get to the top turn, you start pouring that out and turning around looking at the foam. You're gonna start surfing a lot more rail to rail. As h We always work in opposite. So it's left foot, right hand. When we go left foot, right hand forward and holding the coffee cup, it makes us front on. It gives us a better peripheral vision. Our compression and extension is stylish versus doing the P So whenever you surf, if you're a natural footer, you wanna go left foot forward, right hand forward. If you're in a side-on stance, you're missing half the wave. You're missing half your peripheral vision. It's gonna cause stress and anxiety. That coffee cup posture gets rid of all that. It's probably the most powerful thing I've ever taught you about.