I'm injured so didn't surf this week but it was still one of the most productive weeks in my noseride progress.

In this episode:

• My physical therapist told me to take a week off surfing, and how I felt about agreeing to that with warm water and good swell outside
• How I hurt my shoulder doing something completely ordinary at the climbing gym, and why coming back from a long injury is riskier than it feels
• The surf journal I've kept for a couple of years, and the trick of starting with one tiny detail to remember a whole session
• A mentor reviews video of my best wave from last week and shows me the noseride that was sitting three yards behind where I stood up
• Why noseriding means paying attention to what's behind you on the wave, not just what's ahead, and how a week on dry land made me a better surfer anyway

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Come Learn with Us! Join The Noseride Blueprint 2026

Week one of a twelve-week diary I'm keeping through the second annual Noseride Blueprint Challenge inside Surf Societe.

On Instagram you see the clip. Five, six, seven seconds on the nose, on someone's best day, on their best wave. You don't see the eighty attempts it took. So I'm going to show you my messy middle.

In this episode:

• Why I was giddy going into round two, and what changed since the first time we ran it
• What's different this year: twelve weeks instead of six, in-water drills, and two trips to Baja
• Taking stock of where I'm actually at, including the health year that pulled me out of the water and had me wondering whether to sell my board
• What it's like running a kickoff call, broadcasting into a screen of squares with no idea if it's landing
• Two standout sessions this week, a crowdless inside section and a deep-takeoff experiment at high tide
• Where my brain programming ends, why that's good news, and what I'm taking into week two

Read the written version: surfsociete.com/blog
The Noseride Blueprint: surfsociete.com/noseride-blueprint

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