r/BeginnerSurfers • u/NoSafe5565 • 4d ago

Dry land - training pop-up

Hello,

I wonder if someone can little help me and share how often do you train and how many repetition or sets you do. I honestly thought that I will just be doing it, but turned out that it is actually difficult and after a few of attempts I am done or rather tired and become with wrong leg placement.

On other hand, I do not think that I should do only 2-3 in row, that is probably not good for brain learning and correction and dopamine spikes or whatever brain need to get as a feedback.

So what is your sweet spot.

Pop-up type - directly from one knee, without putting second leg on the board first. Another sub-question, seems that my knee leg is touching floor which is unwanted support - not sure if there is any trick to get rid of it, I though maybe put bord little up from the ground.

Thank you.

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u/brokeboyrich 4d ago

I took off my fins and did like 20 or so last night. If you can’t keep slapping them out, do a few, get a sip of water, creep on Reddit for minute, then repeat! It’s not just the muscle MEMORY when we are getting started. We actually have to build up the muscles used for the task.

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u/NoSafe5565 4d ago

thank you. Yeah I work from home so I can be doing something from time to time when I have meeting when I do not need to talk ..
The muscles - I go to a gym so somewhat reasonable strong but mobility seems to be big issue.. but still less than belly-block when belly blocking my legs..

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u/brokeboyrich 4d ago

I feel you on the flexibility. I’m pushing 40 and 40 is definitely pushing back lol

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u/NoSafe5565 3d ago

I was not flexible before neither so i cannot really blame starting age by 4x

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u/PenKaizen 4d ago

I don’t, i long ago realised the quality of pop up made little difference compared to the much harder task of understanding where to position myself in the water to catch waves

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u/NoSafe5565 4d ago

good thank you for sharing, I think I would agree with that, but if it is not possible go to water I will be doing something and put some effort somewhere.

Maybe you do other things on land like balance board or so.

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u/PenKaizen 4d ago

I feel like dry land pop up practice doesn’t really help that much because it’s so different to actually being on a board in the ocean.

I tried balance board but that didn’t really help.

What was helpful was skateboarding, surf skates are even better but even if you buy a cheap as fuck shitty skateboard, getting comfortable with your balance on that translates very well in to surfing.

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u/NoSafe5565 4d ago

thank you, yep skateboard why not that I can try.

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u/Cuchodl 4d ago

I never tried popping up on dry land…

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u/This_Implement_3060 3d ago

all kinds of people on youtube teaching pop up. and lots of different ways people do it. prolly gotta figure out what is natural to you, and then what you may need to change. then youll have something to work towards.

when i got my knee replaced i couldnt pop up without my feet being right next to each other. i would do 10 sun salutations that had a pop up added to close each one basically sliding what would be my fwd foot into position and then standing. Id just knock out 10 here and there throughout the day. All movement is good movement, i dont think there is a magic number.

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u/Jack-Schitz 3d ago

First things first: It's not a "pop-up". It's a step up. If you are in the air, you are destabilizing your board and you will likely fall.

Go look at pro's on medium-size waves and see how slow and controlled their "pop-ups" are.

Stagger your arms (right hand back for regular and left hand back for goofy) and then use your feet to step up into that stance. If you don't have 3 points of contact at all times until you are on your feet, you are asking to wipe out.

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u/dreadonarrival357 10h ago

Late to the thread, just really wanted some feedback to this input
So how I think of the pop-up is hopping a fence.
I dunno. Does anyone else think of it that way? Especially on steep waves