by michelle | Aug 19, 2021 | Glute Strength, Injury Prevention, Surf Mobility, Surf Performance, Surf Strength, Surfer's Shoulder
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...
by michelle | Jan 26, 2021 | Injury Prevention, Surf Strength, Surfer's Neck
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...
by michelle | Aug 22, 2020 | Injury Prevention, Surf Mobility, Surf Performance, Surf Strength
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...
by michelle | Oct 7, 2018 | Injury Prevention, Surf Mobility, Surf Performance
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),...
by michelle | Mar 27, 2018 | Injury Prevention, Surf Performance
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...
by michelle | Apr 23, 2017 | Injury Prevention, Surf Mobility, Surf Performance
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...
