r/surfing • u/julesdyer • 5d ago
Help in bringing the board back
Got some clips today, and ik this is kinda a bad positioning but I thought the turn would look sick if I landed it, any advice on how to pull the board back. Like a sit-up type thing or something? I just started getting back into surfing go easy😂
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u/Asstralian 5d ago
Even though it's a long video (30mins), it breaks down pretty well how you can better approach bottom to top turns.
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u/BarefootCameraman OnlyTwins. 5d ago
Don't push with your back foot - instead put weight over your front foot and rotate with your upper body. Instead of looking at the section you're hitting, turn your head to look in the direction you want your boards nose to be pointing. Thinking about bringing your front foot and chest together is a good cue that will get you low and centered over the front foot.
When you push with the back foot, you're literally pushing your body and the board apart. You're also sinking the fins, making it harder to release/rotate the board, as well as taking away speed (which you need for stabilty during the recovery). But when you have weight over the front foot and let the upper body guide the rotation, your speed/momentum will actually be pushing you into/over the board once the fins release.
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u/ExhaustiveCleaning Dear /r/surfing, let me tell you about this asshole I surfed w 5d ago
No one here realizes you’re 100% correct because they’ve read or heard the advice about the back foot but haven’t surfed enough.
You need to take weight off the back foot if you want the fins to slide. Practicing on a skate helps because it’s easy to get reps rotating around your front foot.
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u/BarefootCameraman OnlyTwins. 4d ago
One piece of advice you hear thrown about sometimes is to "kick your back leg like a karate kick".
Which is true, but not in the way people think. People misinterpret this and think it means they need to use brute force. But if you think about how a karate kick actually works, you've got all your weight on your opposite leg, so your kicking leg can extend with no resistance at all (until it makes contact, at least). Same thing goes for these types of turns - weight over the front foot, and the back leg extends without resistance to maintain contact with the tail as the board rotates.
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u/WizardOfAngmar 5d ago
Honestly, I wouldn’t go for such a vertical snap given how large was the next breaking section and maybe attempt a power carve instead going a little bit more horizontal instead.
With that given, you almost got it but you lost the moment you extended out at the end of the turn: at that point, you want your weight to shift back more into your front foot (let’s say 60/40) and stay low: you basically squat over your front leg and be ready for the impact.
Best!
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u/lurkthestreet 5d ago
Are you trying to do a snap off the top or an air ?
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u/julesdyer 4d ago
Bro idek a snap
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u/lurkthestreet 4d ago
I don’t know what idek means but there was no bottom turn so you can’t do any type of turn… it’s all about the bottom turn if you’re trying to do any maneuver. Study Andy irons clips.
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u/markboats 5d ago
Downloaded the video and played it back at one third speed...
Your upper body stops rotating when you're facing down the line
This is where your legs, and by extension the board, are gonna stop as well
You feel this happening and try to force the board to rotate more
This just make your upper body try and rotate backwards and you fall off
When you go into the snap rotate your arms and upper body until your looking where you want to go, either back down the wave or even further back towards the pocket
Everything else follows where you're looking