cross stepping on a log? | Surfer Discussion | Surfermag Message Boards
Before the shortboard revolution the most functional maneuver was the nose ride. Well gremie you had to walk up there to get there. Shuffling and hopping was ugly so the cross-step was the most stylish way to get there. Here's the move. Fade your takeoff toward the breaking wave and just as it gets steep stand up and whip a quick turn from the back third of the board. Once the rail of the board connects with the wave, cross-step to the nose to trim for speed. If you go too far away from the curl with that quick burst then cross step back and kick hard on the tail with your back foot (kick stall) this is followed by another cross step to the nose. Now your logging!
Observations from this morning | Surfer Discussion | Surfermag Message Boards
Nice Post!!! As far as cross-stepping goes, there are two things I always focus on: take tiny little steps, and keep your knees slightly bent. If you try to take a big step (because you're in a hurry to get to the nose), or if you're stiff-legged, it's hard to do it smoothly and keep your balance. Also, make sure you keep your feet directly over the stringer: if you take a step even a couple inches to the side of the stringer, your board will wobble. Remember, cross-stepping to the nose actually stalls the board: you're moving forward, but your steps move the board backwards. That's part of why it's a really fun thing to do: the walking to the nose helps stall you into the pocket, then when you get to the nose you're in perfect position for a noseride. If you have a longboard skateboard, that's probably the best way to learn how to keep your balance while you do it. Just like a surfboard, cross-stepping on a skateboard slows the board down while you're walking. It really helps your balance a lot. Another thing is to practice cross-stepping in a perfectly straight line. If you have something that could work as a balance beam that's ideal, but just walking a line is good too.
Observations from this morning | Surfer Discussion | Surfermag Message Boards
Nice Post!!! As far as cross-stepping goes, there are two things I always focus on: take tiny little steps, and keep your knees slightly bent. If you try to take a big step (because you're in a hurry to get to the nose), or if you're stiff-legged, it's hard to do it smoothly and keep your balance. Also, make sure you keep your feet directly over the stringer: if you take a step even a couple inches to the side of the stringer, your board will wobble. Remember, cross-stepping to the nose actually stalls the board: you're moving forward, but your steps move the board backwards. That's part of why it's a really fun thing to do: the walking to the nose helps stall you into the pocket, then when you get to the nose you're in perfect position for a noseride. If you have a longboard skateboard, that's probably the best way to learn how to keep your balance while you do it. Just like a surfboard, cross-stepping on a skateboard slows the board down while you're walking. It really helps your balance a lot. Another thing is to practice cross-stepping in a perfectly straight line. If you have something that could work as a balance beam that's ideal, but just walking a line is good too.
indoboard question for longboarders | Surfer Discussion | Surfermag Message Boards
I have the longer IndoBoard as well, and I can tell ya I find it easier to cross step on my 9'0 than the IndoBoard. It's necessary to "lock in" the tail of the board to the wave, and I can't seem to get locked in on the IndoBoard. However, my 12-year-old can easily cross step and hang 10 off the IndoBoard. Go figure. If you're serious about cross stepping on a long board, you'd be better off getting a 2x4 and putting it in your living room. Don't walk straight forward, but a bit sideways with the back foot coming up and over the front. (Nice easy way to switch stance, too!) Keep your steps fairly small.
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colas France 650 Posts Posted 2/11/2013, 7:23 pm email quote reply My advice for a beginner would just be to use a single 8" - 9" fin, as far forward in the box as possible. Tri fin, thruster, or quad setups are great once you know you to push enough on your legs in your turns to actually push against the side fins. Till then, your turn will be made more by tilting the board on the rail and have the deflected water flow pull the board inside the turn, the fin acting as arrow feathers and turning the boards to follow the hull. In this mode, the fin acts as a pivot, and the single pivot point of the single fin will make the board feel more lively than a cluster of fins that will seem to "block" the board. Note that twin fins work well too, they give both a single pivot point and grip on the rail. So: just go single mate, only go thruster when you begin to really push in turns, you will then feel the single slightly loosing grip in turns, this will be the sign that you are ready for a thruster.
Nose riding by colas Thurs, January 28, 2010 - 9:37 p.m. For me, longboard, the declic was when instead of trying to "get high" on the nose, I started to do "bite" the nose into the wave by pressing firmly on the side, and have a feeling " piloting aircraft wing "as if the nose of your board was your hand that you go through the car door of your car and" made the plane. " Technically this means that it is necessary that the nose is good in the steep part of the wave, so quite high, so you have to force the edge to keep it there, even if it does not show the photos. If you let the board will only stall it will get too low, where there is not the energy to carry you, you feel the nose "push water" Look on this picture up in the wave and support on the inner edge, we can see that the nose does not grow water, the lift is given by the edging. The board is in fact almost a right angle to the surface of the water, you should have the impression of being on a ledge near a vertical wall, and not on a skimboard has a flat glide. Driving is very dynamic, it is constantly working to adjust the intake side edge.
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