Different Pop Up For Beginner To Intermediate Surfers | Common Pop Up Techniques | Pop Up Cheat

There are many different ways to pop up these days. Some are good for beginners, some for intermediate and others for advanced surfers. The pop up that best suits you will be determined by the board you ride and how flexible and strong you are. There are some techniques that are bad and some are good, and then there are others that work only on big boards and some that work on all size boards. Have a look here to see which one would suit you and have a look at some of the common errors too.

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@shannonainslie

[bethanymitchell]

This is HANDS DOWN the best explanation of this on YouTube. First video to show how your back foot lands or the technique with the knees onto back foot the pro's use. Some other bloke somewhere adds on some good info that would add onto this. He says where you place your knees when laying down, your back foot will land on. If anyone has the link to this one as well.

[cliffadlerz]

100 percent the best video on pop up techniques. As advertised, techniques for all levels and ALL AGES. Thank you !!

[johanmaritz]

Great video thanks! Very helpful to me getting back to surfing after many years out….grew up in East London ( Bonza Bay😀)

[russellsharky]

wow this is good too. I've seen so many different techniques and coaches teaching different things but this one makes a lot more sense. good job!

[weskus]

Thanks for the video, it’s given me some food for thought, for having been surfing for 40years, the pop-up is what still gets me. These days even more so as I experience pain in manoeuvrability.

All I know is that I need to get up quickly before I start getting too low into the trough.
Repositioning knees etc can sometimes be too time consuming.

I try to observe really good surfers who make the pop-up look effortless and consider their move to be more of swinging the board to underneath them instead of getting up onto it.

After 40 years, I’m still working at this and ultimately need to spend more time on the grass to develop that technique.

Cheers bro! I appreciate your insight

[fjlandcruiser]

Best video on pop ups. Ive been struggling since getting a short board but this video gave me ways to improve. Thank you

[weldnermarreira]

I have been doing the chicken wing ever since I started at surf school. But now having a shorter board I've been feeling the need to have a faster pop up to avoid nosediving or going over the falls. I'm starting to do the explosive pop up with my board on the bed and slowly getting the hang of it, but I'll definitely have to get back to calisthenics because 3 or 4 pop ups like these fatigue me right away.

[freeflyer]

Same goes. The absolute best. Thanks for posting this

[roamingwildcampers]

Try in a standing position, bringing your back foot up as fast as you can into tail pad position..Then rotate your foot in the standing position, see how fast you can get your foot up into the tail pad position, you will see how faster and accurate it is..If you rotate your foot a few paddles before pop up it's a lot faster and smoother, hip is also rotated as your foot is already in the tail pad position before you walk up the board...

[chris_share]

Here's another variation that I've recently come across - move into cobra with feet up, then drag your feet underneath your body. It feels different to the more explosive versions and works well for me even though I'm not particularaly fit. Cheers!

[jackbeef]

Well every thing to understand how to practice thanks a lot

[cynthiacynbadbrown]

Best pop up video I have seen to date! Thank you!

[yovbmbt]

Super excellent video!! Very helpful tips always, registered your channel and save many clips. Always refer to your coaching and keep surfing in Japan!! Please keep posting how-to clips. Thank you!!

[safetybeachlife]

If you watch pro surfers in slow motion (there’s videos out there) they are all basically going back foot, then front foot while lunging into a sprinter position. 100% of them do this. Some may start by popping off their knees, hey theyre all super fit and flexible. But the end result is, arse goes up, back foot lands or plants, front foot comes through and plants between hands. Stable as. Then up and pump.
There is variations obviously and the movement will speed up or down depending on takeoff difficulty, but in essence they’re the same.
If you’re getting older and can’t initiate the pop from the knees anymore then slow it down a fraction and walk up using the back foot on trackpad. Remember slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

It’s pretty rare to see a good surfer, pro or local legend, do anything different from this.

[karelampinen]

Thanks again Shannon, very valuable information!

[mathiasroberg]

Great video and good, easily explained. You see so much random techniques with beginners, and even intermediate surfers, so its nice to have a good explaination of the different styles. Keep it up! :)

[fgl]

Outstanding explanation on how to correct the chicken wing!

[basdeleeuw]

Great video - really helpful! Thanks a lot! Just learning to surf and the back foot first method looks great as I don't have the athleticism for a pop up using knees.

[jianlinsd]

This is the only video I found that covers all techniques. I use one of the cheats.

[jonhorvath]

problem with front foot first is that you can't speed pump until you get your back foot onto pad. your knee ends up in front of pad on the rail which causes knee dents. it really only works for steep or hollow waves (especially if u r pig dogging) and just builds bad habits.