5 ‘unique’ exercises for all Board Riders to work on.
As the old saying goes, “there is more than one way to skin a cat”, which is much like training for the board sports (surf, snow, skate). There are so many different training styles and approaches that are applied to these sports. Some better than others, some very strength and conditioning/sports science focused, some very […]
Sports-specific training is very misunderstood
Sports-specific exercises, aka sports specificity have become increasingly made up to mimic sports movement patterns and have become the ‘norm’ for some fringe sports. The principle of specificity states that sports training should be relevant and appropriate to the sport for which the individual is training in order to produce the desired effect. Ok, this makes […]
“Surf Training” the art, the butchery, the circus tricks and misinformation.
When you think surf training, the first thing that comes to mind is usually someone mucking around on a bloody bosu ball or Swiss ball and them mimicking surf turns, balancing on a plywood board onto of a ball and then doing a ‘popup’ onto a board balanced on more Swiss balls. In reality, it’s […]