World Surf
Catering to World-Wide Frothers who want Endless Performance and Injury Prevention
Lockdown Surf Workout
The world certainly has changed. During times of lockdown, this online space has become our sanctuary of sorts. We’ve needed to connect, to nurture our social and emotional needs, to feel heard, to gain inklings of “understanding” in this incredibly strange time in...
Surfer’s Neck Routine
Surfer's Neck Routine - 10 min Strengthening & Soft Tissue Release for Optimal Neck Posture Let’s be honest here, surfing is not great for your posture. Paddling is great for strengthening your back muscles, but the position of your neck is far from ideal when...
Human First, Surfer Second.
We’re always looking to be bigger, better, stronger, faster, more powerful and more critical. The repertoire of surfing manoeuvres which are expected from a ‘good surfer’ today were once thought impossible and put tremendous forces through the surfer’s body. The...
Joint Movement Discrepancies in Surfers
Joint movement discrepancies found in surfers When we get better at surfing, we get worse at general human movement. Certain joints get ‘loose’ and certain joints get ‘stiff’. In very advanced surfers, I see a hyper-mobile lower back (from lots of torso rotation),...
The Changing Face of Surfing – Keep Your Body Updated
Surfing requires skill coupled with risk and physical demands and those demands have increased tremendously during the last decade. It's now nearly impossible to achieve certain levels of surf performance without specific surfing training that develops a surfer's body...
Do you Qualify for Olympic Lifts?
"Surfers do not particularly need to practice the olympic lifts, they are not specific to surfing and there are many ways to improve mobility, strength and power whilst avoiding these highly technical lifts requiring a high degree of ankle/hip/thoracic mobility and...
Preparing Professional Surfers for Competition
Strength and conditioning programs must be specific to each individual’s body, their chosen sport, their current strengths and weaknesses, their psychological state and the level at which they wish to compete. Strength training is not just about putting on muscle mass...
Daily Joint Health for Surfers – A Simple Routine to Keep the Joints Healthy
When we get better at surfing, we get worse at basic human movement. And as interest in surfing grows worldwide, more and more people are pursuing competitive surfing as a professional career. That, in turn, is pushing the sport to new levels of high performance. The...
Want to be a Leaner, Faster, Fitter Surfer?
Whether you have a bintang belly that has blown out of control, stored too many moroccan tagines, developed lazy office eating habits or have just found surfing alone is not helping you stay in shape (perhaps you do not have the luxury of surfing as much as you would...