Ten Years of Wanting to Noseride, and What Was Actually Missing

🌊 Free Noseride Guide — the first thing I'd hand my 2012 self: https://surfsociete.com/noseride-guide

📍 The Noseride Blueprint — twelve weeks inside The Surf Société, Starting Aug 18: Surfsociete.com/noseride-blueprint

📖 Read the written version: I Spent Ten Years Wanting to Noseride

I wanted to noseride for over a decade and I couldn't do it.

Not for lack of wanting. I watched the one video that existed in 2012 — Kelia Moniz at Waikiki, toes over the nose — and I knew that was the thing I wanted. Then I spent the next ten years guessing at how to get there.

I bought the wrong board because I didn't know what to ask for. I practiced cross stepping on my bedroom floor next to my laptop. I collected kind, contextless advice from better surfers. I paid $250 for an hour with an instructor who told me "if you feel like cross stepping, take a step," and then spent the lesson talking to her friends in the lineup.

And then, slowly, I stopped saying the goal out loud.

This episode is the whole story — including the part nobody talks about, which is what it feels like to quietly get okay with not progressing at something you really want. It turned out it was never a talent gap. It was an information gap, a mindset gap, and a support gap, and all three of those are fixable.

If you've been saying you want to noseride for longer than you'd like to admit, this one is for you.

In this episode:

• Why the board you were sold probably isn't a noserider, and what actually makes one
• What length board you need to noseride, and why length is the smaller half of the answer
• Cross stepping vs shuffling to the nose, and whether it matters
• Why your nose sinks every time you get to the front of the board
• How to get real value out of a surf coach, and the language you need before you hire one
• What to do when Instagram stops being inspiring and starts feeling like a verdict
• How long it actually takes to learn to noseride