How A Skeptical Lifelong Surfer 4x’d his Wavecount w/ Adam Sime
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Adam Sime is a 51-year-old nurse, father of three, and lifelong surfer who drives 12+ hours to chase swells across the UK and beyond. In this episode, he opens up about what it actually feels like to blow a hard-earned surf trip because your body gives out after an hour, and what he did about it. We get into the moment that broke him at a firing point break in the Hebrides, his honest skepticism when he first came across the Basis Paddle Trainer, and how his results went from done-after-4-waves to back-to-back-4-hour-sessions in solid Southwest Cornwall swell. He also breaks down how relearning his paddle technique from scratch changed everything, and how getting fit enough to drop board volume opened up a completely different level of surfing for him.
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Chapters
02:34 Welcome & Introduction to Adam Sime
02:48 Adam's Life: Family, Work, and Surfing in Seaford
04:30 Chasing Waves Across Europe with a Motorhome
06:10 Growing Up Surfing in Western Australia
08:22 Charging Big Waves in Morocco
09:26 Why Adam Started Thinking About Paddle Training
11:29 The Wake-Up Call: Getting Fit After a Wipeout
12:40 The Hebrides Trip That Broke Him
13:14 Discovering the Basis Paddle Trainer
15:00 Early Struggles with the Trainer
17:10 Was He Skeptical at First?
19:23 The Results: Four-Hour Sessions in Cornwall
23:07 Quadrupling Wave Count in the Pool
28:12 How Technique Changed His Paddling
32:14 Going Down in Board Volume and Surfing Better
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