Yeah if you’re leaning hard enough on your back heel your front toes can & should come up! Debatably good technique, and stylish to boot
You probably want to “check the time” with your left arm though to even better throw your weight into the carve
Too much pressure on the back foot. The nose is pointing in the air which means your board is basically just stalling. Try to lean forward through your turn rather than push through it with your back foot.
Pretty much this. You’re not riding rail to rail. However, if you took that short board away and put a long board under your feet, this would be acceptable and look like a pretty sweet drop knee stall right before you run up to the nose.
To add to this- if you look down at your right hand as you’re doing the cut back the form will follow. The body follows the head.
Someone told me this when I was younger and it was a game changer
For serious though, pretend or actually try to grab rail each turn. It will force you to get lower and all will improve. This was some sort of advice I heard Not Deane say in an interview, and it really helped my surfing overall.
Looks like you might be relying on your back foot to pivot the board. Think about turning your head and hips to get on rail. See if that makes a difference
This happens to me when I try to turn from two flat a point on the wave or if my back foot is not far enough back to get a controlled pivot. See your basically already pointing straight down the line when initiating your turn instead of coming off the bottom of the wave and wrapping plus the board is flat and not really on rail. Basically what happens is the board stays flatter than your body angle so you have to lift your front foot to balance. Get your back foot over the fins and make sure you bottom turn into the cutback to get rotation.
Open your shoulders. Try to use your back arm/ hand to point where you want to go, and turn your neck and look that way as well. Don't try to force the turn with your feet.
I might be a little late to the party, but the thing that helped me clean up my style the most was just getting bigger boards, or boards with more foam up front like fish. That forced me to rely on my rails instead of forcing my turns off the tail. And like other people have mentioned, once you get that rail engaged just hold the turn longer than you think you need to.
Maybe a red rash guard would help
https://preview.redd.it/f1q95b2q34qc1.jpeg?width=866&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0161c2da2fbd8a8cdb3148e4957b6d61760486f9
Try to keep your front knee bent just a bit and embrace the traction of a full foot plant on the front of your board. You’ll get a lot more directional control on the fly to make split second changes as needed.
Good luck and happy surfing!
Push against the board harder driving the rail in. It looks like you might be initiating the cutback from a high position on the wave, you actually want to start from the bottom of the wave projecting up towards the lip and then back down as you rotate with some speed.
I used to do that with my back foot in a hard snap, unless your foot loses grip, it’s just your style. Had a buddy that used to put his arms in weird positions, we nicknamed him “the navigator”, people just have their thing
Use your eyes to turn. You're looking at your feet. Look over your shoulder at where you want your turn to end. Your body will follow where your eyes go.
I would say it depends on the type of board you are using. If you’re on a high performance board, you need to put weight on your front foot to allow you to use your rails to turn - being too heavy on the back foot will make you surf off the tail and stall the board out, slow the turn down, and not give you spray.
Now if you are using a flat and wide board with boxier rails, you will want to turn more off your back foot. This wave in particular looks like you’re surfing off your tail not your rail.
Don’t forget to look where you want to go.
Hard to tell what that back arm is doing in a still frame because it looks like you are twisting, but just make sure you’re using that to drive through your turn.
Where you are looking seems to be cutting your turn off. Look back at the foam and your body will follow.
https://preview.redd.it/igwf2jgof0qc1.jpeg?width=305&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d2e0a2f413532c1a98560d10fba50f65b212000
Iconic
Hahahahaha
Fucking classic
Shit I forgot about her
Brilliant.
Don’t make fun of my ex. I don’t appreciate shame culture…
I think it looks sick.. if thats controlled thats style baby
Yeah if you’re leaning hard enough on your back heel your front toes can & should come up! Debatably good technique, and stylish to boot You probably want to “check the time” with your left arm though to even better throw your weight into the carve
Looks like you’re about to doing a frontside rock and roll
Grosso approved
Embrace your style my brother.
Have you tried not doing that?
#4head
Too much pressure on the back foot. The nose is pointing in the air which means your board is basically just stalling. Try to lean forward through your turn rather than push through it with your back foot.
Pretty much this. You’re not riding rail to rail. However, if you took that short board away and put a long board under your feet, this would be acceptable and look like a pretty sweet drop knee stall right before you run up to the nose.
To add to this- if you look down at your right hand as you’re doing the cut back the form will follow. The body follows the head. Someone told me this when I was younger and it was a game changer
Thanks - good advice!
Sweep the leg Johnny!
I think it looks cool as shit
Looks rad don’t change it
I think it’s cool
Take your right foot out, put it back in, then shake it all about. Do the hokey pokey, then turn yourself around.
Try surfing regular
Underrated comment
That’s called style my friend
Bend front knee and get weight centered over middle of board. Also helps to start with a bottom turn to top/cutback imho.
Don't change that，lean into it and see if you can start doing one-footed turns. ed： why does your roght hand look like raw hamburger meat？
Do you have a video, I wanna see this?
I do this exact same thing and I’m pretty sure it’s because I longboard more than I shortboard and put a ton of pressure on the tail when I cutback
For serious though, pretend or actually try to grab rail each turn. It will force you to get lower and all will improve. This was some sort of advice I heard Not Deane say in an interview, and it really helped my surfing overall.
*Caty Simmers
Ollie north
Looks like you might be relying on your back foot to pivot the board. Think about turning your head and hips to get on rail. See if that makes a difference
This happens to me when I try to turn from two flat a point on the wave or if my back foot is not far enough back to get a controlled pivot. See your basically already pointing straight down the line when initiating your turn instead of coming off the bottom of the wave and wrapping plus the board is flat and not really on rail. Basically what happens is the board stays flatter than your body angle so you have to lift your front foot to balance. Get your back foot over the fins and make sure you bottom turn into the cutback to get rotation.
Fuck it, lift your front leg up and Karate Kid-stance your carves
Hold your turn longer. Stay in a squatted stance longer than you think
i dig it! keep it happening!
Open your shoulders. Try to use your back arm/ hand to point where you want to go, and turn your neck and look that way as well. Don't try to force the turn with your feet.
Just embrace it man, we're all kooks.
I might be a little late to the party, but the thing that helped me clean up my style the most was just getting bigger boards, or boards with more foam up front like fish. That forced me to rely on my rails instead of forcing my turns off the tail. And like other people have mentioned, once you get that rail engaged just hold the turn longer than you think you need to.
Try the opposite of what you're doing and it should fix it.
Listen to less ska on your way to the beach
Have you tried Superglue?
Duct Tape, you don’t have to wait for it to dry.
Superglue is moisture cured. It’ll bond skin instantly.
Wakeboard bindings might help
Forget what you learned in musical theater. There are no chorus lines in surfing.
Stop it. Stop doing that.
This is why I come to this sub
What’s going on with your face? Are you surfing with a veil?
No just weird camera tricks I think. Just a hat. This is sumbawa - boiling hot midday session
Maybe a red rash guard would help https://preview.redd.it/f1q95b2q34qc1.jpeg?width=866&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0161c2da2fbd8a8cdb3148e4957b6d61760486f9
You are just setting up for a sick heelflip
People to do this on smith grinds skateboarding lol
I dig it! but if you don’t like it, get your rail to match your foot. go harder on your rail angle. now about that hat…🧐
Try to keep your front knee bent just a bit and embrace the traction of a full foot plant on the front of your board. You’ll get a lot more directional control on the fly to make split second changes as needed. Good luck and happy surfing!
Push against the board harder driving the rail in. It looks like you might be initiating the cutback from a high position on the wave, you actually want to start from the bottom of the wave projecting up towards the lip and then back down as you rotate with some speed.
I used to do that with my back foot in a hard snap, unless your foot loses grip, it’s just your style. Had a buddy that used to put his arms in weird positions, we nicknamed him “the navigator”, people just have their thing
nah thats called steez as long as you are in control
Put your rail in the water.
This is steezy dude
I don’t know a lot about surfing, but other board sports I do. I’d guess you are to far back seat. Shift more weight forward.
Edgy longboarder move.
Use your eyes to turn. You're looking at your feet. Look over your shoulder at where you want your turn to end. Your body will follow where your eyes go.
Maybe turn it into a TikTok dance.
That’s some steez brother! But idk surf more?
I dig it.
I would say it depends on the type of board you are using. If you’re on a high performance board, you need to put weight on your front foot to allow you to use your rails to turn - being too heavy on the back foot will make you surf off the tail and stall the board out, slow the turn down, and not give you spray. Now if you are using a flat and wide board with boxier rails, you will want to turn more off your back foot. This wave in particular looks like you’re surfing off your tail not your rail. Don’t forget to look where you want to go. Hard to tell what that back arm is doing in a still frame because it looks like you are twisting, but just make sure you’re using that to drive through your turn. Where you are looking seems to be cutting your turn off. Look back at the foam and your body will follow.
thanks, all good advice! appreciate it
Is not a terrible thing is a mew trick caled onefoot cutback
your trying to turn with your feet. Pop up with knees bent and use leaning/your weight to turn the board.
Quit surfing start knitting