surfing tips and tricks.

[steve shearer]

I know we've got Carroll but it can't be all one way traffic.

[Beerfan]

Make sure you're the right weight for the break you're surfing. Very important. It's all physics you know.

[el rancho]

don't bother with that nanotune snake oil, jizzing a piping hot load and rubbing it in works way better

[ctd]

This is starting off well.

[el rancho]

steve doesn't need any help from me getting his threads going

[Hatchnam]

1) focus on maintaining consistent speed and flow and just let the "moves" take care of themselves
2) dont follow fads or try and "fit in" (go and find your own truth)
3) be as aware and relaxed as you can possibly be (physically and mentally)
4) take off deeper, paddle in earlier, and surf tighter in the pocket
5) it's better to be moderate, consistent and elegant, than it is to be radical, inconsistent and awkward

[el rancho]

Iggy has gone full soul-surfer after hopping on that bonzer

[Animal_Chin]

1) focus on maintaining consistent speed and flow and just let the "moves" take care of themselves
2) dont follow fads or try and "fit in" (go and find your own truth)
3) be as aware and relaxed as you can possibly be (physically and mentally)
4) take off deeper, paddle in earlier, and surf tighter in the pocket
5) it's better to be moderate, consistent and elegant, than it is to be radical, inconsistent and awkward

[Hatchnam]

oh i forgot. ride your 5'6 hypto kypto in double overhead bowls.

[DucksNuts]

Find the worst surfer with the biggest smile in the water and consistently snake and drop in on them

[steve shearer]

from observation and experience the thing most easily fcuked up and remedied by the average recreational surfer is the take-off.

Carroll deals with the technique capably in his book .


Alot of surfers are weak in the middle and this makes for a slow and clumsy pop-up.

Do these two exercises and you will notice immediate improvement in your take-off/pop-up and surfing performance.

http://www.menshealth.com/video/swiss-b ... ife-pushup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_RtMLvVZVo

For both of these exercises allow the shoulders to sit low in the sockets and squeeze the shoulder blades slightly.

[godsavetheking]

steve, if you're delivering take-off tips I'm going to have to insist that you defer to established magicseaweed protocol and refer to it as the 'pop-up'

[steve shearer]

c'mon GSTQ, comprehension is usually your strong suit.

It's in the post already.

How's your pop-up? Few months out of the water and it's usually the first skill to degrade significantly.

swimming doesn't help it.

[godsavetheking]

ah that'll learn me for skimming. can we spare my blushes and and pretend I put an 'exclusively' in there?

(Mine's fine thanks. I am quite ape-like though, which obviously helps. That and having surfed since 1985, of course)

[steve shearer]

Alot of surfers who've surfed since Carroll got pubes have a weak pop-up and poor take-off.......it's an ingrained habit that doesn't get better with surfing more......it just becomes more of an ingrained bad habit.

Anyway try doing both of those exercises once or twice a day. It'll take you less than five minutes and report back.

or don't.

[alakaboo]

Paddle like everybody is looking.
Surf like nobody is watching.

[Beerfan]

Paddle like everybody is looking.
Surf like nobody is watching.

Gold boo, gold

[scroopulis]

Don't forget to stretch before unloading your waterman board from the fuselage of your X5/X3/Q5/Q7/ Range Rover etc.
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