In Depth - A Surfing Podcast
OMBE Surf's Luke Hardacre breaks down surfing, in-depth and straight to the point so you can understand and implement small, actionable changes to your surfing every week. By consistently creating small changes, the small improvements will begin to connect and create drastic improvements to your surfing.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 62
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2023
Ep 41 | Visualisation - if you can't see yourself doing it, you wont & copy other surfers to improve your surfing
Visualisation can be a great tool to improve your surfing but it can also be used to problem solve or connect the dots between theory and putting things into practice.
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Ep 40 | Applying The OMBE Method of Training to anything in your surfing
if you are stuck trying to figure out how to improve your surfing and see lasting change, here's a detailed guide on how you can break bad habits and actually see results in your surfing.
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Ep 39 | Surf Fitness: How flexible and strong do you need to be - what you actually need and what's just bs
If you think you have an issue with your fitness or mobility for surfing, this guide will help you identify what may be the issue and give you the baselines to test it.
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Ep 38 | What surf skate do we recommend, how to get started and work up to skating a bowl
If you are looking to get a surf skate or want to get started surf skating, this guide will break down what surf skate we recommend and give you a few drills to get started.
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Ep 37 | How to Complete turns and not cut them short
The average intermediate surfer is stuck doing half turns, or worse quarter turns. If you want those full wraps and feel better turns in your surfing, this guide is for you.
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Ep 36 | Steep Take Offs: How to nail them
Steep take offs don't have to be hard, you just need to understand the easiest way to navigate them and how to quieten the inner self doubt so you can just act.
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Ep 35 | How to make your pop up more consistent
If your pop up isn't consistent or you are feeling uncomfortable on bigger, faster and steeper waves, these two techniques will improve your consistency.
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Ep 34 | A Barrell Riding Masterclass: 6 tips to get you barrelled next surf
These six tips will help you get barrelled and explain how you can start implementing them into your surfing so you can get barrelled next surf.
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Ep 33 | Melissa Keppens: Charging big waves as an intermediate surfer growing up in Land-locked in Belgium
Melissa is an OMBE Community member and has been charging big waves since she started. It has grown into her main passion. But it's not easy being a female big wave charger. This is her story.
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Ep 32 | Confronting the mental side of surfing: why is surfing so hard to improve at and why can it feel like your going backwards?
Sometimes it feels like you can never get better or we can spiral down into self-doubt and wondering if we will ever get better. This guide will show you how to get past that.
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Ep 31 | Surf training: How to get the most out of it, what not to do, how to progress faster and use a feedback loop
Everything you need to know about how to purposefully train, maximise your time training and see improvement in your surfing.
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Ep 30 | The body lags the mind - why it takes a while for things to click in your surfing
When you learn something new, it can click in your mind straight away, but why is it so hard to put that into practice or perfect? This guide will break it down.
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Ep 29 | Embracing the suck, navigating the S curve and how to get out of it
The s curve is a universal method of learning that we all go through, regardless if you are surfing or not and it doesn't always need to suck.
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Ep 28 | Using the OMBE Lens to problem solve anything in your surfing
This one technique will help you break down all of your surfing and figure out what may be the issue and how to solve it.
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Ep 27 | What the F* and how it controls your movements and how you surf a wave
Ingrained in all of us is an automatic response that causes us to make decisions we don't want to in the surf. Control it, or it will control you.
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Ep 26 | The OMBE Method | You already know how to move and surf better, you just haven't applied it to surfing yet
There’s this saying we have at OMBE, “you already know how to move, you just haven’t applied it to surfing”. Confusing right? So what does it mean? The point of this is that, through everyday movemen…
Ep 25 | How to catch more waves in a crowded line up and read the ocean better
If you want to read waves and catch more waves, here's a quick guide to increasing your wave count, without getting frustrated or dropping in on anyone.
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Ep 24 | Surfing etiquette explained and finding more waves without being a d*ck
Etiquette in surfing doesn't have to be vague and it doesn't have to stop you from catching waves. There are multiple ways you can bend the rules to make sure you still get waves.
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Ep 23 | What you can learn from longboarding to help your turns, stance and surfing.
Whether your riding a longboard or shortboard, looking to upsize or downsize, moving from one end of board sizes highlights your weaknesses and you can use that to improve your surfing and style.
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Ep 22 | Always look where you want to go and you'll improve your surfing + How to avoid hitting people
Are people getting in your way in the surf? Half finishing turns or freaking out you'll hit someone? This week will cover that but also how looking where you are going is the solution to so many of y…