The Cutback
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The Cutback
I love a good cutty. This morning I was looking at the wave-check page on the website of Grace, a surf shop in the town in Japan I lived in for a while, and came across this shot of Yutaro Watanabe carving up a little left on Sunday. Yutaro is only 17 or 18, but he has one of the best forehand cutbacks I've seen, and I learned a lesson or two in cutting back from watching him last year. This is my stoke from cutbacks. What's been yours?
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i remeber 1 session where i got hooted thrice.Lucky Al wrote:the cutback is so crucial, we can't just dismiss it because it has a stupid name. we have to ask ourselves and one another again and again, what makes a good cutback? and what is it about cutbacks that we love?
i did a grab rail, lost the fins just before the rebound and stuck it.
stoked.
had a good patch for like 3 weeks, then a shit one.
then an okay 1 and got 4th in a comp
My cutback stoke is a 6 shot sequence of Col Smith at North Narra in NC's old rag.
First shot of the sequence he's in the pit, then going through the sequence he flys out on the face and jams it all the way around in one large fluid arc. As he finishes the cutty the wave is still barrelling so he spins it around back in the pocket. The amazing thing is that in the last shot he is in almost exactly the same position as the first shot.
Two barrels bookending a bloody good, full face cutty.
Oh, and it was on a single fin too!
First shot of the sequence he's in the pit, then going through the sequence he flys out on the face and jams it all the way around in one large fluid arc. As he finishes the cutty the wave is still barrelling so he spins it around back in the pocket. The amazing thing is that in the last shot he is in almost exactly the same position as the first shot.
Two barrels bookending a bloody good, full face cutty.
Oh, and it was on a single fin too!
What makes a good cutback?
Edgework.
Good edgework. The ability to lay a rail so the board doesn't bog and sustains it's speed throughout the turn.
I've seen Garth Dicko surf a bit and he's a bloke that I thought had brilliant edgework. He has a real fine touch when it comes to turns on the face.
He mentioned in an interview years back that he had bad knee problems when he was younger. To protect the knee he had to keep away from the lip for a while. He was forced to surf on the face and it helped him develop good railwork.
He makes a mean curried lentil pie now too.
Edgework.
Good edgework. The ability to lay a rail so the board doesn't bog and sustains it's speed throughout the turn.
I've seen Garth Dicko surf a bit and he's a bloke that I thought had brilliant edgework. He has a real fine touch when it comes to turns on the face.
He mentioned in an interview years back that he had bad knee problems when he was younger. To protect the knee he had to keep away from the lip for a while. He was forced to surf on the face and it helped him develop good railwork.
He makes a mean curried lentil pie now too.
Dug it out last night and it was a nine shot sequence!2nd Reef wrote:My cutback stoke is a 6 shot sequence of Col Smith at North Narra in NC's old rag.
First shot of the sequence he's in the pit, then going through the sequence he flys out on the face and jams it all the way around in one large fluid arc. As he finishes the cutty the wave is still barrelling so he spins it around back in the pocket. The amazing thing is that in the last shot he is in almost exactly the same position as the first shot.
Two barrels bookending a bloody good, full face cutty.
Oh, and it was on a single fin too!
Col Smith on a Jim Pollard channel bottom singly at North Narra.
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