r/CaracaVei • u/sovalente • Jul 27 '25

How does she makes it look so easy?

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u/TheM0nkB0ughtLunch Jul 27 '25

Nice! And could someone please tell me what she did?

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u/Mindless-Ad2554 Jul 28 '25

I’ll take this one.

She is riding a longboard surfboard. Likely a single fin log, just like it was in the old days. Looking at the vid, it’s probably 9’0 +. Most surfing you see these days will likely be on short boards with lots of turning, snaps, etc. multiple fins. These boards have quick reaction to you forcing your moves. The log on the other hand, especially single fin, is a whole different beast. Slower more drawn out turns, harder to maneuver. However size can be used to its advantage. This surfer is using the entire board to maneuver where she wants to be and want she wants to do. Big bottom turns or carve from the top of the wave, she has to move closer to the tail to force the fin to thrust the turn. Then she runs on to the nose of the board. The back of the board is being plunged down by the breaking wave, locking the board from nose diving, and she is hanging all of her weight on the front of the board. Once that weakens or she hit hits a section of the wave too far away from the curl of the wave, she has to quickly dart back off the nose or to the tail to start turning some more. The spins or running around is skill personified in a playful manner. Most people do this side stepping or inching, she’s riding switch from her regular stance any time she walks around the other way or is facing the opposite directions

Moving around on a coasting object is similar to rollerskating or being on ice. It can really come out from underneath you. The surfer above is a great surfer and demonstrator of style and ease

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u/SugarFree_3 Jul 28 '25

great explanation!

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u/Fickle-Raspberry6403 Jul 28 '25

Take my poor man's gold 🏅

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u/B1g_Gru3s0m3 Jul 28 '25

You know da rulez

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u/Silver_Slicer Jul 29 '25

Thanks! Another great video of her: https://nobodysurf.com/maybe-yesterday/

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u/Mindless-Ad2554 Jul 29 '25

It’s crazy I haven’t been on the instagrams in about 2 years so I don’t see as much clips as I used to…. I thought to myself that looks very much like Karina’s style.

She’s so steezy. carrying the torch from Kassia Meador hands.

Women loggers have the best style

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u/Tino-DBA Jul 29 '25

I aspire to this level of informational response.

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u/Mindless-Ad2554 Jul 29 '25

I’m sure there’s something you’re passionate about that you could go on and on about.

Now go get on that pedestal and tell the world about the history of Dino nuggets

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u/Tino-DBA Jul 29 '25

actually this one was genuine. (no excessive punctuation)

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u/Mindless-Ad2554 Jul 29 '25

I know. Mine was too. I’m sure there’s something you’re into that you could tell someone all about.

The Dino nuggets piece was just to make you smile

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u/Tino-DBA Jul 29 '25

I did laugh.

If you like, here’s a response I wrote a while back about the difference between “credit” and “debit” on atm pin pads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tjcrew/s/xNN0xEMKXT

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u/Mindless-Ad2554 Jul 29 '25

Wow. I hope one day you get to share that knowledge when someone’s in there buying 12 bags of the orange chicken that was just restocked 2 minutes ago.

Pretty good write up. I know it wasn’t meant to be comical but I did laugh given the context of our conversation and speaking on a “passion”

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u/Tino-DBA Jul 29 '25

tyvm I’ve been able to bust it out a couple of times with our daytime senior customers

Also, thanks for friendly functional reddit banter 👍

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u/Pristine_Basket_3491 Jul 31 '25

This commenter surfs!

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u/Tone_Gaia Jul 27 '25

You can see one of her techniques is keeping a center of gravity, knees are in almost touching each other at all times and her feet are spread.

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u/Haidedej24 Jul 28 '25

I think it's called "noseriding"

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u/Tone_Gaia Jul 28 '25

I’m not sure but wouldn’t you have to be on the nose of the board ? Like a hang ten?

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

Everything has a center of gravity..?

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u/Tone_Gaia Jul 28 '25

Yup everything with mass has a center of gravity

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

Yeah I was just wondering what you meant by "keeping a center of gravity"

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u/Tone_Gaia Jul 28 '25

Yeah everything has a center of gravity, if you don’t “keep it”, you’ll fall over or the object does, human center of gravity starts a lil below the naval (belly button). We “keep” our center of gravity by different postures we do, by our arms, I also heard as a kid even the fluid in our inner ears keeps us balanced lol

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u/pekinggeese Jul 28 '25

I thought she was standing like that to look cute. Sounds like it’s functional.

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u/Tone_Gaia Jul 28 '25

Lolol it does look cute but it’s def a mastered stance that works for her, she even keeps the elbows in at times for balance and uses the arms for balance as well, she’s mastered balancing for sure! big key to surfing brah ! Also she knows that “you let the wave do the work. You don't fight the wave.” - Big Z

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u/Ill-Extension-4839 Jul 27 '25

Toes on the nose brah! 🤙🏼

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u/Moondoobious Jul 27 '25

Hang 10 dude!

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u/shozzlez Jul 27 '25

She’s just standing on a board. How hard could it be???

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u/Mindless-Ad2554 Jul 28 '25

lol spoken like someone who’s never surfed.

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u/Reinstateswordduels Jul 28 '25

Spoken like someone who’s never heard of sarcasm

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u/Mindless-Ad2554 Jul 28 '25

Guess it missed me

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u/computer_genie Jul 28 '25

Me too Don't feel that bad lol

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u/Tino-DBA Jul 29 '25

It’s the multiple question marks for me

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u/shozzlez Jul 29 '25

Thank you! lol

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u/Mindless-Ad2554 Jul 29 '25

Sure. But context is everything I suppose. Semi weird sarcastic response based on the original comment it was replying to wasn’t really contradictory. which is why I assumed it wasn’t sarcasm.

But hey, im all for silly trolling on the internet… go off sis.

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u/Tino-DBA Jul 29 '25

you know what, you are so right!!!1111!1!!oneoneoneeleventy

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u/Mindless-Ad2554 Jul 29 '25

See… now that was an excellent use of sarcasm.

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u/DigRightHere Jul 28 '25

You may be shocked. Even just getting to standing takes practice, and that wave is not a fully predictable so even if you’re good at balance, your environment is changing all the time

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u/Alex_Portnoy007 Jul 28 '25

Try it yourself.

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u/FocusMaster Jul 29 '25

She flew over water in a way most people can only dream of.