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 | 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 | Jul 28, 2017 | Surf Performance, Surf Strength
“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...
by michelle | Jul 1, 2017 | Surf Performance
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...
