I often ask surfers if they do any kind of structured breath work outside of their surfing. Often the answer is no and quickly the follow-up statement is “I don’t even know where to start”. So I’m going to give you this very straightforward tool to use start thinking about your breath. You’re going to start in down dog, flow into up dog and then transition into child’s pose. Flow through these three forms and transition every 5 seconds. Concentrating on holding one posture as 5 Seconds of an inhale, next posture 5 seconds as an exhale, and repeating 5 Seconds as an inhale. Use nasal diaphragmatic breath. Inhale through your nose, use your diaphragm to get a full breath, and exhale through your nose or your mouth. This is a great place to start thinking about and thus improving your breath endurance.