Graham Marsden on Surflab

Graham Marsden

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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24 Aug 19:26

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

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24 Aug 19:21

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 ☹️

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24 Aug 19:18

Coryn Daniel Good to see some footage from you again 👍

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24 Aug 09:41

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 🙂

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24 Aug 05:56

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?

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23 Aug 20:58

Some surf skating footage from the park in Barnstaple.

I did some warm-up runs around the park to get the feel of it, then tried some backside and frontside turns in the bowl.

The bowl is much nicer than the one I usually ride in Portsmouth, bigger and with a "split level" setup, although it did take some getting used to.

As mentioned in my previous post, it's depressing when you feel like you're getting up the wall with your head low, but then see the video and it's... meh... 🙁

I think my main issue at the moment is simply gaining enough speed to be able to get further up so the centrifugal force will allow me to lean more, but I'm not sure how.

I've watched the surf skate videos of Ozzy and Kai in the OMBE bowl and they're getting so much more height with seemingly much less effort, so if anyone has any suggestions on what I can do to improve, please let me know!

https://youtu.be/z1GILhtXf4Q

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21 Aug 21:43

Recently I got back from from 10 days holiday at Croyde in North Devon, although I actually spent a fair amount of it surfing at Saunton (the next beach along) because it has a more mellow wave.

I have to say that this was the best surfing I've had in over 20 years, the conditions were generally clean and with easy breaking waves which gave me the opportunity to practice without having to worry about wind chop or close outs.

Not only was I getting my shortboard walk-up working (I was using it for practice even though I mostly rode my 8'2!), but I was getting more stacked on the front foot and managed to compress and extend along the wave face.

Frustratingly, on the day I did my best surfing, I had forgotten to take my GoPro with me and I wasn't in the right place to get footage from the surf camera, but Hadyn Wood was there and witnessed it!

I also got to try out a better skate park than my usual one, which I did get some video of (will follow up with this in a later message), but it was depressing when I watched it back, thinking I was getting up the banking with my head low, only to see that the reality was a lot less impressive... 🙁

Oh well, it's an improvement anyway, so I'll take what wins I can get!