Toby Beard Extention
Progress is an interesting thing... It feels like it takes forever, body movements are hard, remembering is difficult, don't feel like we getting anywhere then all of a sudden something happens and there's flow... and it's like the struggle never happened.
I had been struggling since day one to get my left arm to open up, it has been as if it is not even a part of me.
Then I went for a surf this weekend and I was like.... Whaaaaat??
I am still in disbelief of myself.
Mindset, discipline, and sometimes just going for it makes a big difference.
Hey guys 🫡 just looking for any critiques (I'm sure there is plenty) of me at the wave pool the other day. Struggling to generate whip off a top turn .
Thanks in advance.
Took some different angles of video of my figure 8 practice to see if I was bending at waist too much into the 2nd turn and/or if I was letting my coffee cup arm get behind me into the cutback turn.
These videos are not of all the same attempt cause I don't have 3 phones to record all the angles at once, but I tried to select turns that all looked/ felt similar when I did them for a better comparison.
Feel free to let me know what you think. I know myself watching these angles I definitely could get my head around more on the turn and I notice I tend to hold my breath, which now that I've noticed I can work on making some fart noises or something going into it.
As a side note: legs are burning after all the attempts I made today. Skating a bowl after leg day= hard!
I never thought there would be much connection between surfing and skiing, but...
I'm in the Three Valleys in France at the moment, but I'd been having problems controlling my line and speed on pistes that are steep or icy, so I decided to get a lesson.
My instructor pointed out that I wasn't pushing my knees down and into the front of my boots enough and that I should reach forward and down with my inside hand.
Light bulb!
"Oh, you mean compress the front leg and push the coffee cup through the turn!"
I then had to explain about OMBE and surfing, but using that simple thing, which i already knew, made it so much easier 👍🙂
I know I need to work on my stance, still to side on. And I know the best way would be to surfskate. But I really struggle to find anywhere to practice it.
New year...new goals... I'm gonna get this figure 8 thing sooner or later.
This time I really wanted to work on keeping my hands up, not letting them drop before the first turn and swing as much (as in 1 example). Not sure why I do that anyway but it's a hard habit to break.
That did seem to make me feel more stable and balanced going into the second turn. Feel like I could have maybe made some of these, but felt I didn't have enough speed into the 2nd part and was overall just uncomfortable with the backside turn.
After these attempts I did head over to the roll in and quarter pipe bank and just practiced the backside turn for another 15 mins or so to get more used to it. I know those are supposed to be easier since you can see the turn and the bottom of the bowl but I do everything backwards apparently...
I'm gonna get it!
Hey Michiel van Gerven I remember you asking for some tips on hitting the lip late, here is an example of a succesful attempt I managed yesterday 😁
The lip is on it's way down here so my timing was still ok and the wave power wasn't huge so it worked out.
FIRST TRY....Not really but....COUNT IT!
Yes, I realize it ain't pretty. On the backhand my arm isn't where I want, it doesn't look all smooth and flowing BUT a WIN is a WIN!
Made quite a few of them today. Now I can dial it in and get it more stylish. Keep that right arm from swinging in front of me on the backhand, maybe work on carving it out a little longer around the corner, get my left arm up higher and kiss the knees more, all the good things will come now that the first step is done.
Thanks to all the OMBE members for the help and pointers. Totally stoked to be Over the first hurdle.
YEEEWWWW!
