Michiel van Gerven

Dec 12 at 03:28 AM

If I remember correctly from that live it was mentioned that water does flow differently in one of those. That doesn't make it useless at all but it is not a 1 on 1 match either.

Not an expert by any means but here's my take: Water in the ocean is probably more of a circular / up down motion. Whereas on a flowing wave the water is constantly moving past. You can see it when you look at videos of people surfing those waves. To me the top turns look less flowy. They sort of have to cut the turn short to avoid coming off the back.

Anyways: give it a go! No harm in trying.

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Dec 10 at 03:06 AM

Not that I’m aware off. But you comment something like: commenting to bookmark for later. You can find all the things you’ve posted etc in your own profile. Maybe that’ll work?

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Dec 07 at 03:55 AM

How about hitting the bank on the right, then hitting the left corner (backside turn), then the other corner (front side turn)

Dec 04 at 05:12 AM

Loved that.

Also enjoyed seeing your home break! Looked quite clean, is it often like this?

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Dec 04 at 04:03 AM

A lot better than the last one. On that second turn focus on looking across diagonally to the top of the lip and you'll get it. As Hadyn Wood mentioned on the previous post you need a lot of speed to lean that far. Or rather, leaning is the only way to actually turn when you're going a lot faster.

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Dec 03 at 03:30 AM

Great bus to be on. We've got t-shirts.

To me it mostly looks like you're overthinking it. I've seen you way smoother than that. I think you're trying to get your head lower?

My tip would be to put something on the coping to help you do the turns on that section in the back. Like two cans of beer on opposite sides. Instead of trying so hard just look at those (and point with your back hand) You body will sort itself out.

Plus you can have a beer.

Nov 30 at 04:23 AM

That's one lovely bowl.

My number one tip would be this: keep your right hand up at sort of shoulder level and a bit more forward. Might sound crazy but AI think that will automatically make you lean more (when appropriate). You are still quite straight up on some of those turns. Give it a try.

Nov 22 at 08:11 AM

Graham Marsden definitely a case of auto cucumber

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Nov 22 at 05:41 AM

Technique. The top of that turn should be a twist. But as Clayton would say, if the twist is broken it defaults to a lean. Hence the falling backwards. Done it plenty of times myself. The solution is to twist your body (and get your left arm out of the way to do that). And point your board back down the wave. Ideally look back at the foam.

I’ve gotten this wrong a lot of times myself. As others have pointed out sharing is a good way to fix this. You’ll learn very quickly that falling because you forget to twist hurts. Ask me how I know…

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Nov 21 at 07:40 PM

There's some extension and compression going on but I would recommend also twisting at the top of the wave. Meaning, turn your upper body to face down the wave again to drop back in and gain new speed.

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