This book is about helping you move as nature intended, to move more efficiently and to maximise not only your surfing performance but also your physicality for anything and everything in life. A book for world-wide frothers who want endless surf performance and injury prevention. We all have an optimal shoulder position which is stable, an optimal spinal posture which reduces wear and tear on joints and discs and optimal knee positions to avoid injuries to name just a few.
What you will get in this book:
Clear mobility and strength techniques to allow you to surf with more fluidity, agility, endurance, power and finesse.
Clear photo demonstrations covering the shoulder areas found to be problematic in surfers.
Simple technique instructions and logical reasons behind each of the Fluid Surfer Shoulder techniques.
Common injuries and limitations found in surfers or all levels.
A self assessment section to show you where you fall short of optimal mobility and what chapters you need to focus on.
Active stretching, self-mobilisations and DIY soft-tissue techniques that you can take with you travelling on your next surf trip.
Practical applications of the Fluid Surfer Shoulder techniques.
A common issue with surfers, due to repeated paddling, is the development of pain at the front of the shoulder. This is often due to a lack of shoulder internal rotation range, which causes the shoulders to sit forward in a constantly rounded position. This causes a shortening of the pecs and an ongoing stretch on the muscles at the back of the shoulder. All the massage and stretching in the world won’t help unless you set the shoulder back to the correct position. To correct these issues, you will require an increase in thoracic extension and an increase in mobility of your posterior shoulder capsule (the back part of the your shoulder capsule). When the scapula is in a disorganised position, your rotator cuff muscle function is compromised, which means your ability to stabilise your shoulder is compromised. Rotator cuff strengthening will not solve your issues of shoulder pain until you restore proper scapula position first. Learn how !
"My first year training and working with Michelle, and following her injury prevention techniques, was also the year I qualified for the World Tour. This was no coincidence." - Davey Cathels, World Surf League Professional Surfer.
"As you will see within the pages of this guide, Michelle Drielsma has been on a clear & focused mission for us all by laying down well documented examples of her insights and knowledge with an aim to urge us to take action for ourselves into moving more efficiently and therefore bring more opportunity for the exact reason we connected with surfing from the outset, the pure joy it brings to our whole being. Putting your trust in Michelle’s clear techniques will help surfers young and old to become stronger, faster and more efficient." - Tom Carroll, 2 X World Champion.
What you will get in this book:
Clear mobility and strength techniques to allow you to surf with more fluidity, agility, endurance, power and finesse.
Clear photo demonstrations covering the shoulder areas found to be problematic in surfers.
Simple technique instructions and logical reasons behind each of the Fluid Surfer Shoulder techniques.
Common injuries and limitations found in surfers or all levels.
A self assessment section to show you where you fall short of optimal mobility and what chapters you need to focus on.
Active stretching, self-mobilisations and DIY soft-tissue techniques that you can take with you travelling on your next surf trip.
Practical applications of the Fluid Surfer Shoulder techniques.
A common issue with surfers, due to repeated paddling, is the development of pain at the front of the shoulder. This is often due to a lack of shoulder internal rotation range, which causes the shoulders to sit forward in a constantly rounded position. This causes a shortening of the pecs and an ongoing stretch on the muscles at the back of the shoulder. All the massage and stretching in the world won’t help unless you set the shoulder back to the correct position. To correct these issues, you will require an increase in thoracic extension and an increase in mobility of your posterior shoulder capsule (the back part of the your shoulder capsule). When the scapula is in a disorganised position, your rotator cuff muscle function is compromised, which means your ability to stabilise your shoulder is compromised. Rotator cuff strengthening will not solve your issues of shoulder pain until you restore proper scapula position first. Learn how !
"My first year training and working with Michelle, and following her injury prevention techniques, was also the year I qualified for the World Tour. This was no coincidence." - Davey Cathels, World Surf League Professional Surfer.
"As you will see within the pages of this guide, Michelle Drielsma has been on a clear & focused mission for us all by laying down well documented examples of her insights and knowledge with an aim to urge us to take action for ourselves into moving more efficiently and therefore bring more opportunity for the exact reason we connected with surfing from the outset, the pure joy it brings to our whole being. Putting your trust in Michelle’s clear techniques will help surfers young and old to become stronger, faster and more efficient." - Tom Carroll, 2 X World Champion.
