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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.