Minkee said...

My board is full of marks too but I've worked out looking at other people that with positioning my lower hand a bit lower on the shaft I get a better control of the paddle movement and then not to hit the rail so often.

Also with yawing, there's no point paddling past your ankle each side too (or at least not too many times in a row while catching a wave) as this will rotate the board for sure.
It is easy to produce a linear movement with our arms for each side from the front to our ankles but once the paddle reaches your ankles your opposite arm cant go any further (normally...) and the body start twisting... I believe that torsion is conducted to the board through our body and feet, I think it must twist/yaw the board at that point.

I see, Yes i think this is the case as now and then i panic when the wave comes and sometime just pull myself over the front of the board so i am for sure pulling well past my ankles.

Next time im out i will keep this in mind, Would love to go out today but the body is saying no.