Emily Brooks Thanks for the comments.

One of my problems is that I've never learned to Drop In on a ramp, so I have to scoot for speed. I know the technique, but there's a big psychological barrier between that and actually trying it!

I have (sort of) started to manage to get speed by pumping across a bowl or on a half pipe, but it's not very consistent at the moment and I can only really do it backside, because my frontside turns aren't great either 🙁

When you mention "stepping on the tail and pivoting", that sounds like a skateboard kick-turn which would be like "stomping on the tail" when surfing that only works if you're going vertical, so you can get speed coming back down the wave and that's way out of my skill set...

I'm not sure what you mean by "taking a tighter line for the wall behind rather than infront". Which section of the clip are you referring to?

Can you screenshot the video and draw the line you mean?

Elizabeth Vasquez-Johnson Clay recently did a series on YouTube which explains how to walk up and get a good stance:

https://youtu.be/hcMfqG7j2zM?feature=shared

I believe there's a rather good surf lab on the Gold Coast... 🤔😁

https://www.ombe.co/surflab

You take off, you're compressed.

You go up the wave, staying compressed.

You come back down and go back up, still compressed...

Try extending 🙃

I'm not an expert, but I think what you need to start with is going more top to bottom when you take off.

You drop in, but cut across to take a mid-face line instead of going down to the bottom of the wave, then holding the bottom turn for longer to get yourself back up to the lip.

This will also keep you closer to the power.

Nice ride, though 👍

John Dennis I suppose you could consider it to be two half surf boards, so you'd just shape one rail for frontside and the other for backside, but Clayton Nienaber would be have a better understanding.

I've seen some videos of people using and talking about them.

Apparently they say they're good if you find it eg easier to surf frontside on a shorter board, however you want something longer for backside.

I'm not good enough to be able to comment, but it would be interesting to know.

Check out the Pop up/ walk up series that Clay uploaded to YouTube a couple of months ago, it should be exactly what you're looking for 👍

https://youtu.be/hcMfqG7j2zM?feature=shared

I agree with Michiel, you're taking what Clay would call a classic Intermediate line, racing down the wave, but leaving the power a long way behind.

Try going more top-to-bottom instead of the mid-face line so you can use more of the wave.

Still, nice ride 👍

By "scoots" do you mean Cardboard Slides?

PS of course if you'd positioned further to the right where there was more of a shoulder 🙃