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Written by AI. This report was generated using artificial intelligence from the data he logged. It is descriptive and intended to support his training, and does not replace your own judgement, that of a qualified coach, or, where relevant, that of a healthcare professional.

TL;DR, scannable in 10 seconds

Level: self-rated intermediate (his own word, the single source of truth here).
Strengths (2–3): longboard rail work on the Gem 9'1 (his notes on compressing/extending read clearly), strong wave-count sessions, keeps having fun even in bad surf (he marks every logged session as one he enjoyed).
Focus for arrival: the pop-up, he keeps naming it himself ("Walk up to pop up. Difficult on the shortboard").
Watch-out: he flags physical condition + limited range of movement in cold water repeatedly ("my range of movement i limited (cold, no warm up)"). This is his own reflection, not a diagnosis; worth watching how he moves in the first session.

Where he's at

Marc's logs span a wide band of conditions. His high-satisfaction sessions cluster at Famara on longer periods, the 9'1 days sat around 9.3–12.9s period, light winds (1–3kt), waves logged 3.6–4.9ft, water ≈19°C in a 3mm suit. His recent low-scored winter runs (early March 2026 at Platja des Capellans and Cala Millor) were the opposite: onshore winds up to 23kt, periods as short as 5.5s, water 13–14°C in a 5/3mm suit with 5mm booties, and he rated them 1–2. The most recent session in scope (Famara, 29 Aug 2026, Wavestorm fish 5'6) was clean, cross-onshore N wind at 14kt, 8.1s period, 6.9ft, crowd 2, he rated it 8 and had fun. The low scores sit tightly with cold-water, short-period, onshore days. That's a fact about the sea those days, not about him.

On the Gem 9'1 he's deliberately working the rail, his own words: "I went with the single fin to force myself to work with the rail," and "Compressing 3, decompressing 1 works," and "Use better the rail, compress all the way from the bottom turn to engage the rail so I can go up, instead of ahead of the wave." He's been swapping fins on the 2+1 to feel differences ("Started playing more with the rail as I had deliberately a smaller fin"). The recurring theme in his own reflections is the pop-up and cold-water mobility: "Walk up to pop up. Difficult on the shortboard and the 5/3 mm wetsuit," and "Should work on this." He also noted on the twin fin that he "never enjoyed surfing on the 5/3 nor with the 5mm booties" — a comfort/mobility signal worth hearing.

Day one, suggested focus

If conditions are clean and longer-period, the Gem 9'1 is where his notes light up, put eyes on the pop-up first, since that's the thread he keeps pulling himself. Watch how he gets to his feet and whether the cold-water stiffness he's flagged shows up in his range of movement early in the session. Second thing to watch: his rail engagement through the bottom turn, he's been actively chasing "engage the rail so I can go up, instead of ahead of the wave," so you'll have a clear reference point to compare against what you see. If the day is smaller/weaker and grovelly, the Fish 5'6 is the board he last logged an 8 on in clean cross-onshore, worth offering if the Gem feels like too much board for the day, but let him feel that call. One tentative thing he could play with: a proper warm-up before paddling out, given his own repeated note about cold, un-warmed movement, see how it feels for him rather than treating it as prescription.

Caveats

This is built from logged numbers and Marc's own notes with no video, your read of how he actually moves and pops up in the water on day one will tell you more than the data can.

A frame, not a verdict. This is what the session's data shows, not a grade, and not the whole story. It can't feel what you felt out there, and it doesn't replace your coach. Take what's useful, leave the rest. You know how it really went.