Hi all,

Can anybody give some advice on how to turn effectively, fast and also how to turn without doing a shoulder injury? When races are approx 400m it's quite an important part to get right. I tried the surf stance as well as the neutral position and found my arc for both were very wide and hard on the shoulder. Any suggestions would be welcomed!!

Hi Rea,

If its a surf style board your riding, I would suggest you put a kick pad directly over the center of the center fin box.

When you want to turn get your back foot onto the kick pad, put weight onto your back foot and sink the tail as LSD suggests.

This move will raise the nose and release the rails effectively shortening the board length in the water. Then sweep your paddle wide you will turn with ease in less than a board lenght.

The greater the angle on the paddle blade the better the leverage to allow the board to turn as you can effectively push water with the blade. 14 deg works better than 12deg imo.

My 8 year old can turn my 12fter without any problem at all using this technique and it is a heavy board..

Hope this helps Rea.

Regards

Phill

Easy - just do what Ekolu does

LSD said...


Think adout how you would turn this mother

Wow, now that thing would be super fast! What size is it? Do you race on it?