Free · The Championship Surfer Checklist
Fifteen minutes. One number. Then the exact list of champion behaviours you're missing. And every one of them can be trained.
You know the feeling.
On fire in a free surf. Then the jersey goes on, and that surfer vanishes.
Everyone says "just relax out there." That hype lasts about five seconds.
Here's something better than a pep talk.
An Australian sports psychologist, Dr Brent Rushall, spent years testing world champions. He pulled out the 100 things they consistently do. A behaviour only made the list if three-quarters of the champions had it.
Then he scored 384 world champions on it and 4,083 ordinary competitive athletes.
We've adapted it for surfing.
Your number tells you how many of those 100 champion behaviours you've already got. And exactly which crowd you're standing in.
You get a score. It's plotted against the champions and the 4,083 others. So you get to see where you land at a glance.
Then comes the part that matters: you get the exact list of champion behaviours you're missing.
Not "work on your mindset" fluff. The actual list. And because every item is a behaviour, not a talent you were born with or without, every single one can be trained.
Here's a taste. Item 60 reads: "I feel nervous and tense before a heat."
That's on the champion list. It only made it because most world champions ticked it.
Being nervous before a heat is a champion characteristic. Which means "just relax" is actually advice to be less like a champion.
There are ninety-nine more where that came from.
You have to actually take it. All 100 questions. Fifteen minutes. Answered honestly. Your true answers, not just the answers that make you look good.
Tick what sounds impressive and you'll get a great score describing a surfer who doesn't exist. And you'll have wasted your own fifteen minutes.
If fifteen honest minutes is too much, the program will be too much for you too.
Good to know now, right?
A couple of things before you start
Your report comes in three parts; one for you, one for your parents, one for your coach. Gaps close faster when your corner knows what to work on.
The report appears on screen the second you finish. It's scored right there on your own device. It's never sent to us, and we don't keep a copy. So print it or save the PDF before you close the page. That report is yours.
We'll ask for an email. Not to send the report — it's so we can send you a short guide for making sense of your report.
Parents reading over a shoulder: there's a section written just for you. It includes the one thing to say in the car on the way home after a contest, and a couple of things not to say. Stay close for this one.
— Dr Mike Martin
One hundred questions. Ten pages of ten. Your number at the end.
Start the Checklist →Free. No credit card required. Scored on your own device and never sent to us.
P.S. — Remember item 60. The best surfers in the world are nervous before a heat too. What they've got that most surfers don't is a strategy to deal with it — and it's trainable. Your report shows you whether you've got it. Fifteen minutes. Find your number. →