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You’re very welcome!

That could work if the string will wrap on the paper clip. I have never had a situation where a flathead and fin key didn’t work. Just for whatever reason not all leash strings are created equal! Some go right through. Others are stubborn.

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Great question and I think I'll have to do a video on this! There are many things meant by "surf camp." For example in Oaxaca, MX you basically have to go to a "camp" just to surf. That doesn't mean there's instruction. It's just that to surf certain waves you have to stay there at the camp on the break. So that's camps part 1. If it's a learn to surf camp then I think my advice in this video applies. You would want to ask them if they're surf school like or coaching like or some kind of hybrid between the two. Some people do like the hybrid approach where they get more reps on the waves by being pushed but then they take the training wheels off a bit and try for their own waves. I think pushing is never necessary, especially for adults, so I would personally steer away from any surf education that involves pushing full grown ass adult humans into waves. Hope this helps. Thank you for the fantastic question.

Thanks dude! I appreciate you!

Welcome!

Only a surfer knows the feeling. 😏

man... I de-waxed some boards for dion last yr and those longboards took forever! There was so much wax in the garbage bins that the smell got pretty gnarly

Thanks Leo! Channel reboot is in full effect.

@@conatussurfI look forward to more videos!

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Thanks for your comment! Sorry I've been MIA on here. Lots of great stuff coming down the line this summer. Make sure you're subscribed! Yew!

Thank you!

Can apply to most boards. The key is understanding where the tail is and getting back there to do the turn!

There will be a full video on my leash philosophy in the near future. I am an expert surfer and I never surf w/out a leash in conditions where I may lose my board. In this session I lost my board 0 times. I would never surf w/out a leash in conditions I could lose my board, but there will be a full video on this. If you don't like it, can't help ya, but I'm not going to wear a leash when it's not necessary for me to.

Good point! Thanks!

Yeah I also like to use others' platforms to espouse my own views instead of creating my own channel. LOL.

I agree it’s nice to share ideas and have open discussions 👍🏻 that’s the beauty of the surfing community.

@@aussiert touche. To be more honest only post and don't consume on YT (unless you count goth karaoke via my personal account).

Form and timing is important -- I'm only 68kg and easily duck dive 46 liters step up with medium wide nose shape. Over the years the forms shown in the video become faster, better timed, and more sending nature. Thanks for the slow motion underwater shots and dive variations.

Thanks!!!

Thanks for the comment!

Not really!

No problem 👍

Doesn’t matter which foot you use. I personally use right if knee dive and left if foot dive. Just peculiar to me. No rationale.

I don’t pay attention to volume as a measure. I will make a video about why not.

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for subscribing. I really appreciate it. If you want more weekly tips on surfing our area be sure to check my weekly zines out: dion.subkit.com -- enjoy all this swell we're about to get!

Hey dude! Thanks for subscribing and commenting! So. Man. Solo shot. It's a long drama. I would say that presently I'm a little bummed out about them. I haven't used my camera in almost a year now. It works (i think), but I've had a bad experience with their customer service and repairs department. They held my camera for 5 months then sent it back w/out fixing anything. They are extremely inundated with work and they have no direct competitors. This is an example of monopolies not working to spark change. But if this is the ONLY way for you to get footage of yourself (and if you want to get better at surfing you neeeeeed footage of yourself), then it is worth it. The other thing you can do is buy a consumer level handy cam and hire a photographer or a friend to get some footage of you. This can be dicey/unreliable, but I find that it does work on surf trips. For example, when I go to places like Costa Rica or Mexico I pay locals to use my gear and shoot me with it. That way I get access to my clips immediately and don't have to worry about slow internet speeds in foreign countries. Make sense? If you want to chat more about this you can always schedule a 15 min consult call on my website: www.conatussurfclub.com -- thanks!

It's actually an easy tube both frontside and backside. Issue on days like this are the human beings getting sucked over your head in the lip or crossing your path in the impact zone. I'm goofy foot and had a nice handful of made tubes this day, especially before my filmer got there. She also left early. So not a bad showing for 45 minutes of filming!

I have video of the entire incident. It's a long a saga that has nothing to do with surfboards (except that we're all riding them lol). I've been holding back posting it to YT. I run a subscription newsletter: dion.subkit.com and that's where I first posted the vid. It's also what this video was made for in case context seems a little off for YT. I go into greater detail about all things surfing over at the newsletter (drops every Friday evening EST). One day I will release the video of what does border on assault. Only in NY will a person who has been surfing a spot for 15+ years be harassed by someone who has been surfing it for 1-3 years. It's a very odd thing about NY surfing culture.

Thanks for the nice note! So funny your comment made me really think hard about when I might get this footage for people like you, and honestly I rarely surf super duper crowded waves. I tend to avoid it all together/try to put myself in life situations where I am forced to surf crowded waves to get a daily fix. A big part of my turn towards surf specific diet and fitness is that for shitty or overly crowded surf days I'm just as well off doing a workout and waiting for a time I either have time to find an empty peak or when it's just less crowded. So one take on crowds might be how to best avoid them and get in the space for avoiding them. That said it does get crowded here in NY and I will surf in crowds from time to time. I will be super mindful about thinking about that and trying to get evidence of it next time it happens!!!

@@conatussurf rockin. thanks!

Thanks for your thoughtful reply and additional tip. Definitely one of the things that cannot be simulated in a pool is the help we get from the waves curvature and force. One commonality I notice in your account, however, is that no good duckdive can be performed w/out radical control of the tail of the board, whether that be pushing it down further or leveling it out in stages as you report. If the surfer is unaware of the tail, even in the moments of the dive when the lower body disengages from the board, the dive will inevitably go "ass up" lol and the wave will smack the ass and pull the surfer back. All kinds of ways that tucking our butts in helps advance our surfing.

Glad you liked it!

Any time! Thank you so much for supporting. I do deeper dives into all of this stuff in my weekly interactive surf zines: dion.subkit.com (subscribing there is just as good as a beer! although I'd also take the beer!) Thanks man!

Love SD!!!

This is from 4-5 different days!!

Dang that's so nice of you to say. I'll keep putting out the content. If you want even more in depth weekly tips check out my interactive zines at dion.subkit.com Yew!!

Awesome, thank you!

Wow thanks so much!