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GONGSUP - The Flame Ball Surf Company - View topic - How to: surf backside

Hello, we must first properly position your feet. then you have to play a lot more with the shoulders and paddle switches because it is more difficult to increase curves rowing in the next wave backside. Much leave the paddle side frontside . μPour I generally do my part as follows: - soft or big waves, I still mainly backside paddle side (side so vague). - small waves hollow AND I use it a lot frontside side to mount the board into the rollers. It's much harder to do and I see too many people do just that when they surf cool. It is a mistake in this case because a support on the heels SUP paddle without dosing and look ::: hyper drive. But those who walk paddle in the air: there spankings that are lost In summary: - Same as frontsdie take off unless you look on the other side - once it's gone you spend your paddle side heels. - before the bottom, you place your wing forward at an angle of 90 ° with the latte of your board: your wing must be before you. Your hand up the handle must be very close to your toes hip side (rear). NEVER high arm and elbow in the air. It's horrible and ineffective. - you put your gently sail on the water flat. - as it slows biting into the water, will rotate your shoulders and your torso will turn to face the nose. This is where you have to push on the heels. - more wave and smaller and you want to turn short: the more you have to bend the arm back side heels to reduce the turning radius without reducing canopy. turns For tops: - you have to anticipate more than frontside because the rocker is less aided by the paddle. We play with more body weight. - either you spend your paddle to the other side and it becomes a frontside curve you know. - or you do not and all switches will be done with the shoulders and the weight on the slope . Generally our backsides support are more powerful and less fine. Personally I've always surfed better in the big backside that while a priori contrary frontside. It's a matter of confidence and training. So as it is a bit harder than frontside, your mistakes will jump to the figure. It's good to surf backside to eventually do well but also to better surf frontside. Indeed, in the surf frontside backside committed we are often (almost). Thank you.

GONGSUP - The Flame Ball Surf Company - View topic - How to: change the side paddle surfing / Paddle Switch

Having rowed a few strokes, you must switcher paddle to row across. In surfing, it also happens to have to change the paddle hand. It is indeed preferable; an aesthetic point of view and in terms of the quality of the pipe; . surf with the paddle between the wave and you in a cut back for example, you have to change it out if you want to apply this principle. Keys are: - Do not keep hands paddle - pay attention to the wind that will take in the sails sometimes abruptly in changing hands. - up a little paddle to prevent it from getting caught in the water. - change hands at the low hand because the more you change hands near the center of gravity of the paddle switch is the most rapid. - drag the hands along the shaft including the hand that will take up the handle to always keep in touch and feel when closing the fingers on the handle without the need to watch.

 

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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.

Fanatic allwave Fin set up - Stand Up Paddle / SUP - Seabreeze Forums!

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

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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GONGSUP - The Flame Ball Surf Company - Consulter le sujet - Steering from the front, longboard noseriding.

Hello, the back foot pressure is an important thing. But most important is to understand that during noserides, the best attitude comes from foot location. The pressure between front foot and back foot must come from the location of your center of gravity, more or less over the front foot. But for the rail pressure, the most important thing is to understand that this pressure is managed by the location of your feet. This means that if you want keep the rail in his line parallel to the wave on a left wave, you must walk on the left side of the center stringer. And when you hang five, you must keep the back foot on the left side of the stringer. Actually we never really walk on the center stringer to go on the nose or come back. Another example: you are on the nose on a left and you have to do a cut back. Your cross steps will cross the stringer line because you will walk from the left side of the stringer on the nose to the right side of the stringer on the tail part of the deck. By this way you can do a very fluid turn. So it is more a problem of location and path of your feet than a problem of pressure ; this combined to a problem of center of gravity. The combination of those 2 elements makes you good or wrong. Good news: it is the easiest thing you can learn on a surfboard. You can train on the floor, on a tree, on the water... And you never need big waves. About the effet of the big 11' fin, it is a second effect. This big fin doesn't change a lot the drive to left or right when you are on the nose. But because it keeps the rail perfectly on its line on the face of the wave, of course it helps a LOT. In fact, the only way to do great noserides is to do them parallel to the wave on a vertical section. If you try them on a flat part of the wave, it is fucked or very short.

GONGSUP - The Flame Ball Surf Company - Consulter le sujet - Steering from the front, longboard noseriding.

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GONGSUP - The Flame Ball Surf Company - View topic - How to: Nose ride

Hello, I want to emphasize a crucial point in the decorations and their influence on your surfing. Often think a good decor is that you love. Ok, it's nice a nice board. But the decor has an impact on your performance, even if you are new. Indeed, many of you think that only the central vision account surfing. Out peripheral vision is also seeing greater. Central vision is what you see "directly" is what you are pointing at. Peripheral vision is what is around and in your field of view without being directly charged to your consciousness. This is how I define things for simplicity. Attach an object in a room. The object is central vision, ok. Try to be aware of his surroundings without moving your eyes: it's peripheral vision. specialists noeils not enjoy much but ... In surfing, your peripheral vision is one that allows you to integrate your immediate environment. "View of the corner of my eye." Those who make boxing are well aware that peripheral vision is fundamental to see the future. It is what gives you the information on global attitudes and thus shots in preparation. surf in is the same. Your overall vision is what allows you to see the complexity of the wave as a whole and not only 50cm2 of the lip that you will impact. They are well aware when they charge someone and he appears behind. Seen without watching. Well this is how you analyze your surfing. With peripheral vision, you create a past, a present and a future in your analysis of the wave. Behind the past to the future and center: you in the present. Thus, in particular that you get to set a pace of surfing in perfect agreement with the timing of the wave. But this peripheral vision may be impaired. Surfer avoid going to move the aiming point of your central vision, and therefore any with your peripheral vision! You've probably experienced a break in time, crossing the others. They disrupt your analysis of the wave and its development over time. Well it is the same for a board with an asymmetrical decoration. 's decorations which greatly disturb peripheral vision weaken the correctness of your perception of the surrounding environment. You must set up an entire mental gymnastics to be certain that the axis of your board is the desired example. Trajectory For noserides is obvious. Put a band of decoration on one side only of the board, and walking becomes more complicated later. Marquez third front with a distinct deco than the tail and you instinctively know you're nose on that front third. Peripheral vision works like a machine to travel through time . By focusing on that, you can really see the time surfing otherwise. This is very true in the stages of progression. When we begin, it is an important phenomenon. But also when changing spot. More peripheral vision is stable, we can steer his surfing by central vision and suddenly play on time. We are all agreed that surfing is only a story of respect to time. Figures surfing is possible only if you have time ahead of the wave. This advance is more important the more you can produce figures "modern", ie in extreme shift in time of the wave. A 3D glasses: fire

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GONGSUP - The Flame Ball Surf Company - View topic - How to: Nose ride

Bear wrote: Hello, if it can help you, I need you to be here on the same wave. In this situation, it just remains a step ahead and you can pick up and hang ten KEEP a carefree, the board does not enfournera. You see I put the board in the top of the third wave, what about this one is the most vertical place without the ass of your board is out of the water. You also see that I have you down on the wave because you are suddenly too early if you puts higher as you go faster. See if you want to: Attention: photo montage of extreme professionalism done with rigging for a helping son to tears. Thank you.

GONGSUP - The Flame Ball Surf Company - View topic - How to: Nose ride

ore on the topic "noserides" viewtopic.php? p = 10104 # p10104 For me was the trigger came when I realized that it is not pressing water flat nose (like a skimboard) that prevented the charging, but it had to be "hovering" forward using the inner rail as an airplane wing or foil in the face of the wave, which is only possible if the face is vertical (top of wave) and not horizontal (bottom wave). Basically'll be taken to the edge in the steep face, not sledging in the valley ...

GONGSUP - The Flame Ball Surf Company - View topic - How to: Nose ride

or example, noseride when you spend SUP surfing (thus removing the paddle) you surrender that he must walk inside the strut. Indeed, SUP paddle is pressed, so as I said above the board is pulled to the wave. It tends to slow down and go up the slope. To offset is shifted supports both feet slightly outward of the lath (right of the board to the left and right in reverse). If we only SUPer his longboard , we did not realize. However, once that throws paddle surf board we see the concern. You should immediately walk right inside the latte if you're too low on the slope, downhill too, and imbalances to the bottom of the slope violent. moment you walk 2cm inside the board, the problem is solved immediately. This is one example, but many bowls to hold small details like that. For analysis, it must be detached from the rest during practice. This requires that everything else is automated and hyper like. Thank you.

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GONGSUP - The Flame Ball Surf Company - View topic - How to: Nose ride

Hello, you do everything as usual except that you look at the wave to judge the height of your board in the face. If you are not high enough you support on the inside rail to get where you want. After a few waves you'll take your cues. If you try to go in through the top, you're wrong. Because the goal is to have the nose of the board up but without the ass much higher. Otherwise you'll find yourself in the downhill and the top position in the wave will last quarter of a second. You really put across the board, ie the ass just above the nose. For that you need to take off / Bottom / half turn like rollerblading mid slope (it will slow the board and that it will still go up because the wave advance) / caller trajectory by small internal pressure adjustment. This Simple as that. Awareness. And that's the key of noserides extremes. Thank you.

Twist

Just twist at the waist if you want to turn
I have heard some people tell beginner surfers to " just twist at your waist if you want to turn your (surf)board "

While that is some part true, turning goes from top to bottom. Eye, neck, shoulder, (then) waist, knees and lastly feet.


She is dropping down the face, looking forward and away at the oncoming lip


her board goes from Inside rail to transition to the flat bottom of her board. But notice she is looking ahead to her landing spot. WHERE YOU LOOK IS WHERE YOU GO.


Now watch this surfer's arms. Back hand is readying to swing forward


Notice you can see more of the bottom of the board, that is " being on rail ". Her eyes are focus on the part of the lip she wants to hit. Back arm is now coming across her chest area


at the top of the turn she rips her back arm down to swing the board back down. Eye, then neck, then shoulders


Here is a great approach. Wind up of the eyes and arms look good. But ......................


She only turned the top portion of her body. Her board stayed FLAT. Remember you need to go Down, Up then Around. She never transitioned from inside rail to outside rail and back. her body turned but her board is keep going straight.


again, Surfboard turn more like Motorcycles. Not flat like cars turn. Both surfboards and motorcycles lean to turn. The more pressure and greater angle the stronger the turn. That does not mean to Turn Harder.


setting up. looking at the lip. board is trimming on the inside rail


she turns the nose to the right as she gets on the tail to pivot off the fins and set her rail. ( how can you spot a good surfer ? you can see the fins on their turns )


BOOM ! explodes off the top. Notice her green front arm is leading the action. Her boad is transitioning from the flat bottom to outside rail.

Turning a surfboad is more than " twist your waist ". If that was true, then golf must be easy becuase you just need to " hit the little white ball ". ( and it even is not moving ! ).

If you want to turn your board, do up-and-downs, cutback etc. I can teach you.

in the mean time check out http://starb.on.coocan.jp/ for good turns and flat turns

soleus

By having a properly lengthened soleus muscle, you will increase your ankle's ability to dorsiflex when your knee is bent. The more lengthened your soleus muscle becomes, the greater ability you'll have to dorsiflex while undergoing deeper knee-bent positions -- hence the better balance you'll have on your surfboard. In summary, if you're goal is to fit into tighter barrels (deeper knee-bent position), then a properly elongated soleus is necessary.

Soleus Stretch
Set-up: Position yourself facing a wall. Place your hands on the wall about shoulder high and shoulder-width about. Have your feet about shoulder width apart as well. Allow your front and back knees to bend slightly. Keep your back heel attached to the surface of the floor.

Response: You should feel a comfortable pulling in your back leg -- in your calf muscle belly.

Regimen: Hold each stretch for 30 seconds. Repeat 4 times. You can do these nearly daily as comfortably tolerated on both sides.

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The Eyes Have It

Todd Walsh | todd@surfstronger.com

A key body part you can employ in surfing is your eyes. Yes, your eyes, and more specifically "sighting" to help project where you are headed on a wave. A great surfing technique to improve your surfing performance is using your eyes to help initiate, and make solid and stylish turns. All good athletes -- be it an NFL quarterback, a major league baseball player, or even professional snowboarder, use their eyes to lead their movement. Look where you want to go, and your hips, then your board will follow.

Let's consider the backside off-the-lip -- a fundamental surf move, and one you want in your repertoire. There are three key moves within this maneuver, and you'll use your eyes and sighting to help make this turn.

HOW TO
1. As you paddle for the wave and make the drop, immediately look down the line to see how the wave is breaking. Once this quick assessment is made, look five to six feet ahead and look for a good section for a bottom turn.
2. As you go into your bottom turn you are already looking to the next section -- the mid-face or even top of the wave (Figure 1). This is the critical part of the turn and looking where you want your body and board to go, will help you get there.
3. As you approach the top of your turn start to think and look towards the bottom of the wave, the next place you are headed (Figure 2).

And so this repeats on down the line, or on the next wave.

Try to remember this tip on your next session. Use your eye sight and look where you want to go before you are there.

See you in the water,

Best of

You need to knead the rice before you pound the rice or it will not turn into mochi.  Kneading is 80%, pounding is 20%.  But most people only watch/know the 20% 


Same for Noseriding. When you think of noseriding you think of the surfer on the front of the board. Will that is the latter 20%.  Most of the work for a good noseride is in the set-up.  The creating of the "pillow" and "lock" which is 80%


Before you go forward, you need to go back ( or lean back ) to create an area on the wave to ride on that will support you without the nose dropping


See the "pillow" she is riding ? Also notice the the back of the board is locked down by the wave.  Lots of air under the nose of the board while she is still in the middle of the board. 


This is why Go Suzuki is a Pro.  He is actually doing a stall to set-up the noseride.  This type of stall is very uncommon.  Usually you lift up the nose, but he is burying the rail to slow down.  80% first


Then when the wave/time is right, he goes to the nose. You can just see the yellow board in the wave.  Good set-up leads to good noseride.   20% latter


Here is a great set up.  She is lifting the nose to stall the board and create the "pillow".  You can see the water going forward under the board.   Watch DVDs and you will see that forward spray right before the surfer walks to the nose.  


But it is not as easy of lifting the nose and then walking forward.  You need to have patience and timing.  She is now walking which is the latter 20% but she did not create the lock for the tail.  Notice you can clearly see the tail but no water flowing over it.  Plus the nose is too close to the water's surface and she is still in the middle of the board.  If she waited 1/2 a second more, the lock ( red arrow area ) would be there.  


Before you walk forward, you set up by stalling the board to create a "pillow" to ride on


You wait for the "lock" which is the wave curling over the tail before you walk.   If there is no lock, then it doesnt matter how good you walk.   No matter how much you pound, it wont turn into mochi without the kneading first



His head is Way behind his butt. He is doing a Lean or Arch turn. His head is still over the center of the board but his knees ( actually thighs ) are driving the board through the bottom turn.


Same thing here. Her lower body is leading the board to the turn in target point she is looking at. 


Notice Go Suzuki's body is really bowed out like a .......... hmmm ...

Last week we looked at the Japanese correct posture for sitting, standing, etc. And how it might effect your surfing technique


A straight up and down back leads to a sitting posture during surfing. It makes your center of balance behind your heels. Not good.


See here how her legs and back are aligned together. Another good point is she is looking to the future



You can see clearly her head and butt are behind her heels. So to make up for the imbalance she bends her knees out . Her legs and back are not aligned. 


She has great posture for surfing. The legs and back are aligned together. ( notice i used the seam off her right leg to mark the yellow line since that where her pressure is )



notice her knees are slightly bent but she is not crouching down



she picks up her back foot .....



crosses over her front foot. Her toes on her right foot are still at 3 o'clock since they were the back foot. See her front leg's shin can rest on her back legs calf.



now the front foot crosses back over the rear foot. notice she curls her toes over the nose. Perfect noseriding form. Eyes up and forward, soft knees and relaxed upper body.

Here is the Body English.  Her lower body is flowing up with the board but her upper body is still vertical (  she step all the way back to the green area to turn, spray coming off the left rail )

Rail Loading - Dont rock the boat
" loading the rail " is a technique good surfers do unconsciously.



this surfer just got up to her feet, but she positioned both feet on the inside (right) rail. Her eyes are up and looking down the line. Perfect rail loading 

watch some stylish long board surfers and you'll see something interesting.


that they smile yes, but also that their front toes lift up on their back side turns

see how she is focusing her eyes away from the soup to the clear open face of the wave Also she is surfing her " height ' , with her head over her butt. she is standing tall and not bent over

not all bent knees is bad, watch this great noseride set up

The Cutback

proper front side cutback
you can tell if a surfer has a good front side cutback or not by the way he "SQUARES " his shoulders


if you draw a line from right shoulder to my left shoulder, the angle should match the angle of the board on the water


you can see the angle of the water on the bottom of board matches the angle of the girls shoulders. also notice her right hand is higher than her left hand


hard to see here, but notice the inside hand is higher than the outside hand.
my shoulder matches the same angle has the board's deck


you can see here a more classical drop knee cutback , but same proper shoulder's "Squared" to the board . also notice where he is looking.
( photo from http://starb.on.coocan.jp/


here Hiro is powering through a front side cutback. Eyes looking through the turn, inside hand higher than the outside hand, shoulders square to the board
( see the bottom of the board matches Hiro's shoulders exactly

YOU CAN CAN DO A GOOD FRONT SIDE CUTBACK TOO !!

Front side cutback

front side cutback - open palm
to do a really nice cutback, watch this girl i found on http://starb.on.coocan.jp/


she twists her body counter clock wise towards the wave. notice where her right hand is


she looks back through the turn and now twists her body clock wise. now her right hand is totally open - palm open leading through the turn. also see the great power line from her head through to her feet


here the riders arm is locked to the body and palm closed which makes it hard for his torso to twist. his body is also "broken" , hinged forward at the waist


here same thing - arm locked to the body and palm closed. hand is stiff and not leading the turn


clearly you can see the surfers' open palm as he drags his finger tips to gauge the angle of the turn and create a pivot point


his wrist wants to go right but his shoulder is showing left because it is closed not open


eyes are okay but her shoulder is restricting her neck from turning more. again wrist/palm closed.


see the surfers right arm flexing ? her inner elbow is fully open trying to almost bend backwards. this is awesome technique