I was looking at DJ photos in Vico and the bloke on the blue Luguna Bay rips I also surfed up at double island point when woogie and the crew were there on the Monday after the bop race they made it look easy
Im strugling with the back hand turn ,as a goofie when i go left I have no problem
imp, but going right how do you guys make pivoting look so easy .Scotts Head is mainly a right hander.
any help please

Hi Lacey
I understand practice timing and rotation
but what are compression and extension?

ODSUP said...

Hi Lacey
I understand practice timing and rotation
but what are compression and extension?

ok, say on a bottom turn, let the gravity draw you down over the board and sort of relaxed facing the beach sort of. so you set the rail from this position, probably loaded more on the front foot.
as you extend, rotate towards the turn. the load will move through more to the back foot. this should give the board release as you extend and then you can steer the board where you want it to be. time to start thinking about the next turn, so you get lower and compress and set the opposite rail. as you turn off the top, you should be on the opposite rail carving back down and so forth.

to many people try to turn off the top in a extended position and most likely that is whats happening to you on your backhand. it just always seems harder to get that action going backhand on a sup.



i would say watch a dogman vid but people will start thinking i'm in love.

check out that guy on the white board in the getup dvd post.he has it pretty much wired

cheers

ps have a look at the 'getting into bottom turnsfor the first time post' too. its a couple of pages back

Turn your leading shoulder into the wave face.Twist at the waist so your upper body is turning towards your turn direction.This action naturally puts the twist down thru your legs to the board.Get your chest facing where you want to go not your shoulder.
Drop your inside shoulder lower than the outside shoulder.It feels awkward to begin with but it becomes natural and you will not even realize your doing it after a while.
Bend at the knees to lower your centre of gravity and weight on your heels.Especially your back foot.

Like Laceys Lane said, the guy on the white board in the Get Up clip has it pretty wired.
He uses the paddle technique I was talking about. It works well to get your chest and
shoulders to initiate your turns.