Rambo posted some comments on the difference between top paddlers and the rest of us, with regards to surf skills, in the thread on Boat Design & Weights.
I wanted to use that post as a jumping off point... I would love to hear tips, training approaches, technical insight, etc., from those of you who have developed your surf skills. Yes, practice and mileage are the base for all improvement...
But, specifically, are there things you look for to help you read the waves? Are there tips you were passed on from others that helped you make your own breakthroughs and apply knowledge? In particular, I find I am so busy trying to get on waves (or recover once on them), that I don't have much vision about where to go next and how to transition effectively. I do link waves sometimes, but it seems more like luck than planning - I think my boat is often smarter than I am!
Big thanks to those who continue to post video of folks racing and surfiing - these are great to watch. It would be killer to get some commentating and even maybe some visual callouts from experienced paddlers overlaid on top of these videos, to help those of us who are learning understand what we're seeing better.
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