#jealous

Merry Christmas everyone. Got the dream setup from my daughter's for Xmas. JM Duran Slidewinder, 60mm dragons, Carver C5... ready to shred the gnar!

They are forecasting it to get bigger throughout the day into late afternoon.

I would love to go to one as well. Been trying to talk my wife into the 32 hours of flights, the 10k in airline fees, and shipping the kids over in boxes so I can afford it.

Graham Marsden I've made the mistake of being too back foot heavy before. Fell and hurt my hip so bad I couldn't walk for weeks. I'm very very conscious trying not to do that. Too old and fragile to make that mistake again.

Tried this line a few times this morning.... it was not pretty...my backhand turn is definitely something I need to work on more.

One of my goals moving forward is to try to spend equal amounts of time working on both turns even if doing it separately at first until I can link them together.

I do have to say that 45 mins video of Ant doing this turn in the cutback section really feels like it helped.

The 1st turn in these clips felt so much faster than anything I've done before and it felt like all I did was a "gentle small ball toss to a 3 year old" and open my thumb.

It really felt effortless and watching it back it feels and looks so fast at least to me.

So excited to get back in there tomorrow if it doesn't rain and start working on the 2nd turn more. Yeeewwww

Yea Coryn mentioned that and I said I would give a try tomorrow if I skate. I've not tried that line yet.

I am fairly sure I'm not back foot heavy on the second turn as my back foot is usually the first one off when I bail. That would be harder to do if I was weighted on the back foot, the board would want to do a kickturn.

The next to last one my front foot actually slipped forward and my heel caught the edge which is why I slipped out and the nose goes down with the tail coming up. If I had been back foot heavy there the result would have probably been the board flying up, instead of the tail coming up.

I did try the opposite end of the bowl, with no hip and therefore no second curve to turn off its actually harder. It would be Like trying to do a cutback using corners 1 and 2 in the OMBE bowl except I approach a vertical wall instead of a corner.

Coryn Daniel give it a go tomorrow if I get to skate.