Surftips Podcast with Pepijn Tigges

Pepijn Tigges

The podcast to help you surf better. Practical tips, handy tricks, inspiring stories from personal experience by Pepijn Tigges and interviews with experts. For every level of surfer who wants to improve their surfing. Hosted by Pepijn Tigges. Personal online coaching with Pepijn Tigges via: https://www.surfacademypro.com Instagram: @pepijntigges

  1. Oct 24

    25. What Makes A Good Surfboard With Greg Webber (World Renowned Shaper)

    With multiple decades of shaping experience, Australian Shaper Greg Webber sits down to share some of his knowledge with us. Follow and get in contact with Greg Webber via Instagram for his latest experiments:  https://www.instagram.com/gregwebber2/ Legendary Australian shaper GREG WEBBER breaks down why the rail between your feet is the most undervalued part of your surfboard, why most intermediate surfers are held back by boards that "play it safe", why stiff fins make your turns feel on and off, and how a carve 360 in the tube led to the banana board. Greg has been shaping since he was 10 years old. He made boards for Shane Herring, Barton Lynch, Wendy Botha and Taj Burrow, pioneered deck concaves and curved fins, and is still experimenting today with flexing boards, raked fins and his corrugated "crinkle" board. He explains: ◼️ How Shane Herring's wish to do a carve 360 in the tube created the banana board ◼️ Why not caring about being wrong is the key to experimenting ◼️ The most undervalued part of a surfboard for intermediate surfers ◼️ Why a soft, tucked rail between your feet makes you surf flat ◼️ Why no average surfer has ever told him the rails were too low ◼️ How moving your fins forward lets you do every turn from one spot ◼️ Why you only find your board's limits by going to them (and what driving a car has to do with it) ◼️ When short, wide boards help beginners, and when they create bad habits ◼️ How he made Barton Lynch's turns "searing" with a lower rail, a bit more rocker and a little less width ◼️ Why stiff fins act like a dolphin's stabiliser, and why you want a shark's tail ◼️ The demo board recipe: 15 to 20% towards a banana ◼️ When to start experimenting with fins ◼️ The crinkle board and the future of boards that flex "It's not caring if I'm wrong. I don't attach my identity to it." - Greg Webber Follow Greg Webber: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gregwebber2/ Follow Pepijn Tigges: Instagram -  https://www.instagram.com/pepijntigges/  Website - https://iampepijn.nl  Online Coaching - https://www.surfacademypro.com/

  2. Oct 17

    24. How To Stay Calm In Big Waves And Hold-Downs - Martin McPhilimey Breath Scientist

    Learn breath training with Martin's School of Breath Science: https://schoolofbreathscience.com Or work with Martin personally via: https://www.martinmcphilimey.com/ Respiratory scientist MARTIN McPHILIMEY (School of Breath Science) breaks down why the panic you feel in a hold-down is the same signal as anxiety, why big breaths before a set can make you gas out faster, the step-by-step breath-hold plan that takes you from dry land to the line-up, and why five minutes a day is enough to learn to calm yourself down in the water. Martin is a respiratory and sleep scientist and the founder of the School of Breath Science, where he certifies coaches and runs 12-week breath training programs. He has trained surfers in Western Australia from 2 minute to 5 minute breath holds, and he treats breathing the way a strength coach treats the gym: with structure, progression and rest. He explains: ◼️ Why your breath is the output of your nervous system, and how to read it ◼️ Why breathing more before a heat can make you gas out faster ◼️ How fast breathing revs you up and slow exhales calm you down ◼️ Why the feeling of holding your breath is the same feeling as anxiety ◼️ The graded breath-hold plan: land, pool, shallow ocean, holiday waves, competition ◼️ Why lying on your surfboard limits your breathing, and the drill that opens up your back ◼️ How one bad hold-down gets stored as fear, and how to retrain it with visualisation ◼️ Why chasing bigger waves to beat your fear often backfires ◼️ Why curiosity and play are the base of feeling safe in the ocean ◼️ The breathing ladder from 3 seconds in and 6 out to 15 and 15 ◼️ How much breath training you need: five minutes a day for four weeks ◼️ Inspiratory muscle training: making your diaphragm stronger for long sessions "When I start to feel anxious, I tell myself: it's okay, you've got this, it's just CO2." - Martin McPhilimey Important Safety Information: never practise breath holds in or near water on your own. Start on land and build up step by step, as Martin explains in the episode. Follow Martin McPhilimey: Website - https://schoolofbreathscience.com  Instagram - @martinmcphilimey Podcast - Breath Science Podcast Follow Pepijn Tigges: Instagram - @pepijntigges Website - https://iampepijn.nl  Online Coaching - https://www.surfacademypro.com/

  3. Sep 10

    23. How To Get Out Of Pain And Surf Like An Athlete - Graham Tuttle The Barefoot Sprinter

    Book is available now: "Born to Sprint: Unlock Your Natural Strength, Speed, and Athleticism" via: https://amzn.to/46gbJSI Movement coach GRAHAM TUTTLE (The Barefoot Sprinter) breaks down why your surf injuries are psychological before they're physical, the single test that reveals your true athletic capacity, why "I need to get better" is sabotaging your surfing, and the 10-step process that gets any athlete out of pain and back in flow. Graham Tuttle is a movement coach, athlete, and author of "Born To Sprint". Known online as The Barefoot Sprinter, he works with athletes across disciplines to resolve chronic pain, restore full movement capacity, and rebuild the mind-body connection that most training programs completely ignore. He explains: ◼️ Why sprinting barefoot is the single best litmus test for full human physical ability ◼️ How the "I" mindset (ego) creates the muscle tension and overtraining that causes injury ◼️ Why your chronic shoulder or knee pain will not heal until you're willing to change something about yourself ◼️ The difference between reacting and interacting (and why only one leads to flow state) ◼️ How anxiety changes your chemistry: breathing, cortisol, HRV, insulin and injury threshold ◼️ Why some surfers surf their entire life pain-free and others get injured doing slightly more than normal ◼️ How fascia works and why "your fascia is tight" is just another way of saying your movement is incomplete ◼️ The "fist grip" metaphor for chronic injury that explains why people stay stuck for years ◼️ The 10 steps back to sprinting: rest, sit, crawl, balance, stabilize, throw, kick, skip, jump, sprint ◼️ Why gymnastics fundamentals (not gym work) are the missing piece for most surfers ◼️ How gratitude and play create better physical results than discipline and effort ◼️ Why professionals struggle to maintain the "amateur mindset" that makes you heal and progress "The reason you have chronic pain is because there's something you're doing that you're not paying attention to. And the willingness to change is the entry point. You will not heal unless you're willing to change." — Graham Tuttle Follow Graham Tuttle (The Barefoot Sprinter): Website - https://barefootsprinter.com/ YouTube - The Barefoot Sprinter Instagram - @barefootsprinter TikTok - @barefootsprinter Book - "Born To Sprint" by Graham Tuttle (pre-order now) Follow Pepijn Tigges: Instagram - @iampepijn Website - https://iampepijn.nl Online Coaching - https://www.surfacademypro.com/

    23. How To Get Out Of Pain And Surf Like An Athlete - Graham Tuttle The Barefoot Sprinter

  4. Aug 2

    22. Why You Should Learn How To Surfskate As A Surfer

    Surfskating improves your surfing, but only if you use the surfskate correctly. These are some of the tools that I use as a surf coach to help surfers understand the movement patterns that are used inside of surfing and train them in a more dynamic way than just movement practice on land. The Surfskate helps to translate the understanding of movements towards the board and that helps to translate the movement patterns into the water. In this episodes I tell you why you should learn how to surfskate as a surfer and why surfskating In this episode I tell you why you should learn how to surfskate as a surfer and why surfskating helps your surfing progression and where it lacks the translation into the ocean so that you can actually focus on the most effective ways to use your surfskate. Come on a coaching trip: https://iampepijn.nl/surftrips Book an online coaching call to improve your surfing (and surfskating): https://iampepijn.nl/video-analysis Follow Pepijn Tigges: Instagram - ⁠https://www.instagram.com/pepijntigges⁠ Online Coaching Program -https://www.surfacademypro.com/⁠

  5. Jul 27

    21. Tools To Deal With Negative Self Talk During Surfing, Training and Progressing

    Because surfing is one of the hardest sports to learn, it's very common to have negative thoughts or self-talk in the journey of progressing your surfing. This is at least my experience and what I see happen in the surfers that I've coached over the years. Dealing with that is very important to make the whole journey more enjoyable and less about suffering to improve. This is my short take on how I handle negative self talk and just one example of how you can achieve a better self talk. Follow Pepijn Tigges: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pepijntigges Online Coaching Program - https://www.surfacademypro.com/ Website - http://iampepijn.nl/

  6. Jul 10

    20. The Pepino Model: Designing My Favorite Summer Board Ever (with Good Thanks Surf)

    Order your own Pepino surfboard in FlexFrame via: https://goodthankssurf.com/products/pepino Anti and Jurjen, the team behind "Good Thanks Surf". Shaping flexframe boards in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. A new technology bringing 50% less toxic surfboards to the market. Being surfed and loved by legends like Stephanie Gilmore, Tom Curren and many more. Pepijn: "This is genuinely my favorite summer wave surfboard. This board is good for lower intermediate surfers who want their hardtop to turn easier. Or for advanced surfers who want more drive in their surfing but not lose the maneuverability of their board." (00:00) Intro: why Pepijn was hesitant about a board collaboration (01:40) The origin of Good Thanks Surf: two engineering students who couldn't afford boards (03:30) First boards: a 6'6 diamond tail single fin and a narrow mini Simmons that looked like a tombstone (07:30) What shaping your own boards teaches you that you can't learn any other way(10:30) Learning from mistakes: the yellow board that took over a year to figure out (13:00) Shaping as a relationship between maker and material (16:00) The decision to turn Good Thanks Surf into a real business (18:40) The Australia chapter: learning from professional shapers and glassing 100+ boards (22:00) Starting the company properly in Rotterdam: April 2023 (24:30) Why surfboard construction hasn't changed in 70 years (and the car industry comparison) (27:00) The problem with "eco" boards: wooden boards are too heavy, bio-epoxy is just one part of the puzzle (29:30) The discovery of Verdure/FlexFrame: a New Zealand inventor who rebuilt surfboard construction from zero (35:00) What FlexFrame actually is: paulownia rails, hemp laminate, bio-resin, cork deck explained (40:00) How the cork deck works and why it's more durable than traditional glassing (45:00) The weight and flex difference: why FlexFrame performs like traditional construction (53:00) CNC shaping vs hand shaping: the engineering approach to consistency (57:00) Jacob Burke's A vs B test: same shape in two constructions on heavy waves (01:01:00) Why the FlexFrame board would have survived 3 wipeouts that would break a traditional board (01:05:00) The refurbishment advantage: how you can give a FlexFrame board a new skin (01:18:00) The Pepino asymmetric design: why we stand asymmetrically and what the board does about it (01:21:00) The Maldives test: what Pepijn discovered in perfect waves and what changed (01:22:00) Asymmetric fin placement: why the heel side fin sits further forward (01:22:40) The step deck: what it is and why it matters for volume distribution (01:23:00) The flex trampoline effect: how FlexFrame generates speed out of bottom turns (01:30:00) Surfer feedback: why people don't notice the asymmetry, they just feel it works (01:40:00) Summer quiver problem: why mid lengths fail intermediate surfers in average conditions (01:47:00) What role the Pepino plays in a surfer's progression toward shorter boards (01:49:00) The board's target: max fun in average conditions without losing shortboard feeling (01:50:30) Final thoughts: 50% less toxic, performs the same, perfect for improving your turns "The best boards feel so good you stop thinking about the board. You just surf." - Pepijn Tigges Follow Good Thanks Surf: Website - goodthankssurf.com Instagram - @goodthanksSurf Follow Pepijn Tigges: Instagram - @pepijntigges Website - https://iampepijn.nl/ Online Coaching - https://surfacademypro.com/

  7. May 29

    19. 3 mistakes I made for way too long that slowed my surfing progress (motivation, lifestyle importance & failure)

    Before summer hits, I'm opening 20 private breakdown sessions for surfers who want to walk into this season actually progressing - not guessing. Summer Surf Progression Call (couple spots left): https://surfacademypro.com/progression-call-summer-surf Follow Pepijn Tigges: Instagram - @pepijntigges Website - https://iampepijn.nl/ Online Coaching - www.surfacademypro.com

  8. Mar 14

    18. Surfcoach Perspective: How To Handle Line Up Localism, Respect and Ettiquetes

    A nuanced view on surf line-up localism, why the best surfers are never the angry surfers and how to handle the (sometimes) negative aspects of line-up dynamics. 5 star rated professional surfcoach Pepijn Tigges explains: ◼️ Why etiquette is "customary polite behavior," not legally binding rules ◼️ The 6 non-negotiable lineup rules everyone must follow ◼️ How the "ticket system" works for lineup rotation (and why it's never perfect ◼️ Why the person closest to the peak has priority (not the first person standing) ◼️ Why localism is not locals fault but it's their responsibility ◼️ The traffic comparison: why you react differently to being flipped off in a car vs. in the water ◼️ How culture affects lineup dynamics "When someone flips you off in traffic, you think 'what a weird person.' When someone flips you off in the water, you think 'I shouldn't be here.' Why do we react so differently?" — Pepijn Tigges Follow Pepijn Tigges: Instagram - @pepijntigges Website - https://iampepijn.nl Online Coaching - https://www.surfacademypro.com/

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The podcast to help you surf better. Practical tips, handy tricks, inspiring stories from personal experience by Pepijn Tigges and interviews with experts. For every level of surfer who wants to improve their surfing. Hosted by Pepijn Tigges. Personal online coaching with Pepijn Tigges via: https://www.surfacademypro.com Instagram: @pepijntigges

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