Scott Wagenblast Yes, the bowl is fully enclosed unfortunately, so there's no roll in ☹️

As it was my first time there and I'd not done much surf skating for a few months (plus it was very humid!) I took things easy.

There's a park near to where I live which may be better and I'm going to try it out when the kids go back to school.

Emily Brooks You're welcome 😊

Emily Brooks OK, I get what you're saying now, thanks 👍

You're probably right that I could have come down the slope, but then immediately gone up the left hand slope and compressed down through the corner.

This was actually the first time I'd ridden a park like this, so I need to think more about the lines I could take 🤔

John Kuras I switched to these 95a wheels a while ago because of that issue... 👍

https://www.carverskateboards.co.uk/products/roundhouse-wheels-58mm-park-black-95a

Clayton Nienaber Thanks, I'll try that.

The timing is something that always gives me a problem.

I keep watching the surf skate videos to try and understand what I'm supposed to do and when, but it's not easy to figure out ☹️

Coryn Daniel Good to see some footage from you again 👍

Emily Brooks If you're using an Android phone, just pause the video where you want it and take a screenshot.

Then go into Google photos, select Markup and draw on the pic (you can stretch the image to zoom in if that's easier)

Hope that helps 🙂

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