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Always remember to shoot the curl.
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Re: surfing tips and tricks.
What sort of piece do you recommend? Good ol' 38 or something bigger?Coops wrote:Always remember to shoot the curl.
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Re takeoffs.
Other than paddling harder, any tips for not getting lip luanched/ejecting from 1-2ft shories?
Other than paddling harder, any tips for not getting lip luanched/ejecting from 1-2ft shories?
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Re: surfing tips and tricks.
Don't ride a short fat wide surfboard.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
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Paddle earlier or don't sit too far out.LPJ wrote:Re takeoffs.
Other than paddling harder, any tips for not getting lip luanched/ejecting from 1-2ft shories?
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Didn't wanna get too technical at first, but yes I've tried various boards and I'm not trying to fit a fucken square peg into a round hole. I'm not sitting in the middle of the gutter on a long board. So let's step up the advice to intermediate level. I'm trying to up my conversion rate, not trying to learn how to surf a shorie from scratch.
Anyone tried to set a goal of getting a bonus pit, first try, at the end of every back bank session?
OR
Are there any lords of the shorie out there?
Anyone tried to set a goal of getting a bonus pit, first try, at the end of every back bank session?
OR
Are there any lords of the shorie out there?
Re: surfing tips and tricks.
Do by lip launched do you mean going over the falls?
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Not sure exactly, more like this. And at 1:51 and 1:53.JSB wrote:Do by lip launched do you mean going over the falls?
http://youtu.be/XfPpwCIpatQ?t=1m47s
At those sizes, I know it's more of a problem of being too late/deep and lack of paddle speed. At 1-2/2.5ft, wondering if it's really worth the obsession I've had of late.
Cheers.
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I'm guessing the shorey is sucky/hollow and your getting stuck in the lip too often.
Is that what you mean ?
Is that what you mean ?
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Does this thread cover it?
http://forum.realsurf.com/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=19224
Had the same problem myself last weekend, steep low tide messy (inconsistent) waves, was getting caught at the lip and not able to make it down the wave. From reading, I think it was (for me) probably because the time between waves was very short (4-5 seconds?) and I just wasnt able to turn and paddle fast enough to get ahead of the wave and, being low tide, was getting sucked up to the top. Probably surfing a mini mal didnt help...
http://forum.realsurf.com/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=19224
Had the same problem myself last weekend, steep low tide messy (inconsistent) waves, was getting caught at the lip and not able to make it down the wave. From reading, I think it was (for me) probably because the time between waves was very short (4-5 seconds?) and I just wasnt able to turn and paddle fast enough to get ahead of the wave and, being low tide, was getting sucked up to the top. Probably surfing a mini mal didnt help...
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Re: surfing tips and tricks.
In the size waves you're talking about, sometimes I just bully my way into them while aiming down the line.LPJ wrote:Re takeoffs.
Other than paddling harder, any tips for not getting lip luanched/ejecting from 1-2ft shories?
Provided I'm quick enough and get my stance right, I can crumble the lip long enough to get on clean face.
I'm a big guy though, much easier as the waves get bigger.
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don't surf sucky low tide close-outs.
find easier better waves when you are learning, especially as adult.
finding the right conditions could be way more than half the battle.
find easier better waves when you are learning, especially as adult.
finding the right conditions could be way more than half the battle.
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JSB. Yeah I spose, but not held up. Just sucked up and pitched out. Pretty much what ctd describes.
ctd. Cheers, I'll have a read through, might take a while. So what'll you be doing different next time you're in that situation?
mentone mansions: I think I do a similar thing. I'm 75kg and riding a 97% toothpick sorta 6'2 lately. It just holds it's width a bit more than the classic performance toothpick. I've been bullying my way through the lip on take off, by pushing my board as hard as I can towards the flats. When it works, I'm basically throwing my board down and landing on it. At worst I land it and have to do a big bottom turn, which goes nowhere for close outs. Ideally I'm already at a slight angle to the wave, and I catch it with my feet on the face and fade hard into the close out. I imagine you need momentum into the wave to crumble the lip and therefore a longish shortboard?
steve shearer: these are the right conditions because my goal is to surf as well as I mind surf those constant, consistent, ever present, empty, easy access, grinding, dregding, small, pits. I know I can do it sometimes, I just wanna have less pitching into the flats sans board and more tube time. Maybe good training if I were to find out that I was going to be surfing Cloudbreak in half a year?
ctd. Cheers, I'll have a read through, might take a while. So what'll you be doing different next time you're in that situation?
mentone mansions: I think I do a similar thing. I'm 75kg and riding a 97% toothpick sorta 6'2 lately. It just holds it's width a bit more than the classic performance toothpick. I've been bullying my way through the lip on take off, by pushing my board as hard as I can towards the flats. When it works, I'm basically throwing my board down and landing on it. At worst I land it and have to do a big bottom turn, which goes nowhere for close outs. Ideally I'm already at a slight angle to the wave, and I catch it with my feet on the face and fade hard into the close out. I imagine you need momentum into the wave to crumble the lip and therefore a longish shortboard?
steve shearer: these are the right conditions because my goal is to surf as well as I mind surf those constant, consistent, ever present, empty, easy access, grinding, dregding, small, pits. I know I can do it sometimes, I just wanna have less pitching into the flats sans board and more tube time. Maybe good training if I were to find out that I was going to be surfing Cloudbreak in half a year?
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Don't hurt yourself, those small sucky shories are good for banging yourself up.
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What Shearer said in that thread about positioning under the lip on hollow waves, sounds like it will fix your problem.
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Unless Steve, you're responding to me asking if it's worthwhile, and your personal opinion is no...?
Cheers Beerfan, but sometimes I prefer that risk to crowded banks. And sometimes I just can't help myself.
Cheers Beerfan, but sometimes I prefer that risk to crowded banks. And sometimes I just can't help myself.
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How's the knee going beery ?
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Slow but steady mate. They forced it to bend the other day, not fun but wasn't agony. End of next I'm hoping to get on a recumbent bike.
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