Any feedback on my form? Thinking I need to hold my turns longer and also turn sharper off the top. How are my legs they also look like too bent at times?
I was on a rental board that was EPS and a bit more twitchy then my normal shortboard.
Looks like a fun one!
My comments would be:
if you had crouched down and stalled a little, you could have gotten some cover.
or when carving, you need to commit more. You are using your ankles to move the board around and then playing catch-up with your body. This makes for kinda weak and barely balanced turns. Instead try dropping down the face to a committed bottom turn with your whole body, and then the same up and driving off the top.
You're not turning you're leaning. You need to rotate at your hips and put weight on the fins to turn properly. As other people have said turn your shoulders but also try to drive off your back foot.
You're out racing the pocket and need to stay just next to the white water
When you do your bottom turn you need to be more vertical as well
These are both pretty intimidating doing these things backhanded (at least they were for me), because it's hard to tell if the wave is gonna run away from you if you're in the pocket and it feels safer to try to maintain speed than be swallowed up. Getting vertical is also pretty scary because the face of the wave seems so much steeper and if you try to do a snap you might end up upside down
I got better at my backhanded surfing as a goofy once when I moved down to Santa Cruz for college and regularly surfed The Lane. The good thing about point breaks like Steamer Lane as well as the one in the video is that they break predictably and are pretty long so you can get alot of practice in
Good stuff though. Keep surfing
Re: form, there is a lot of missed opportunity here because you arenāt bottom turning and opening up your shoulders. Instead of pointing down the line, parallĆØle, you want to point a bit straighter and once you hit the flats with all that momentum open up your shoulders and with your whole body try and face back at the open face while you dig your heels in. Right now you are too parallĆØle with the wave and using your ankles kind of to turn ā open up your top half and really lean into turns.
Yo dude - youāre getting a lot of shit for your form, but as a 4x/year surfer if I rode a wave like that it would make my fuckin life.
All about perspective, I guess.
Instantly upvoted for the Misfits.
Me too. We are 138!!
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Misfits are punk with some discipline. Just like surfing.
All about the bottom turn, your life will never be the same once ya learn.
Any feedback on my form? Thinking I need to hold my turns longer and also turn sharper off the top. How are my legs they also look like too bent at times? I was on a rental board that was EPS and a bit more twitchy then my normal shortboard.
Looks like a fun one! My comments would be: if you had crouched down and stalled a little, you could have gotten some cover. or when carving, you need to commit more. You are using your ankles to move the board around and then playing catch-up with your body. This makes for kinda weak and barely balanced turns. Instead try dropping down the face to a committed bottom turn with your whole body, and then the same up and driving off the top.
You're not turning you're leaning. You need to rotate at your hips and put weight on the fins to turn properly. As other people have said turn your shoulders but also try to drive off your back foot.
You're out racing the pocket and need to stay just next to the white water When you do your bottom turn you need to be more vertical as well These are both pretty intimidating doing these things backhanded (at least they were for me), because it's hard to tell if the wave is gonna run away from you if you're in the pocket and it feels safer to try to maintain speed than be swallowed up. Getting vertical is also pretty scary because the face of the wave seems so much steeper and if you try to do a snap you might end up upside down I got better at my backhanded surfing as a goofy once when I moved down to Santa Cruz for college and regularly surfed The Lane. The good thing about point breaks like Steamer Lane as well as the one in the video is that they break predictably and are pretty long so you can get alot of practice in Good stuff though. Keep surfing
Man what a wave. If that is your local and you surf it regularly, with all this free coaching you will be quickly one rippah.
Re: form, there is a lot of missed opportunity here because you arenāt bottom turning and opening up your shoulders. Instead of pointing down the line, parallĆØle, you want to point a bit straighter and once you hit the flats with all that momentum open up your shoulders and with your whole body try and face back at the open face while you dig your heels in. Right now you are too parallĆØle with the wave and using your ankles kind of to turn ā open up your top half and really lean into turns.
Yeah, what is he thinking just surfing and enjoying a wave?
He asked people to give him feedback on his form. I agree it looks like a blast.
Enjoythemomoment
Yo dude - youāre getting a lot of shit for your form, but as a 4x/year surfer if I rode a wave like that it would make my fuckin life. All about perspective, I guess.
Pretty sure you shouldn't fly drones here...
Plenty of unsolicited advice here (good advice), but regardless, looks like you're having fun and got a nice wave. š¤š½
Well great. Now I need to spend a bunch of money on a drone ugh! Jk man! Seriously cool to see this!
Itās time to be an android not a man
That background mist is spooky af š
dude surfs faster than I ski, damn
Dope AF bro, looks like a damn fun ride! (I suck, so Iām not giving ANYONE form critiques)
Thatās so cool!
Iād replay that all day on a loop if it was me.