Scott Wagenblast looked very Jersey to me. From there originally. Used to surf Brigantine and Ocean City a lot. Worked in Sea Girt for a few years. Now living in SC. Water is warmer (most I wear is a 4/3 in winter, but surf is no where near as good as Jersey. Usually have to drive up to Wrightsville Beach when I know a good swell is coming. Don't miss the cold or the snow though.

Just curious where this clip was taken at. It kinda reminds me of cape may, NJ area. Wondering if I'm close to right...

I recently got the C7 and absolutely hate it. Might be cause I have it on a super short WB board, but it's not my cup of tea.

Love the CX and C5, thinking about getting the solride so I can cross over into some skateboard tricks like Ollie's and grinds maybe, but yea the C7 I'm thinking of just giving away.

Thank you for this comment. Literally read it as I was pulling up to the park this morning. Spent more time on the bank today, after starting on the half pipe.

The bank definitely giving me more space to open my shoulders and make the turn and I don't have to worry about the coping, or running into the fence that is very close to the end of the half pipe.

For sure gonna spend more time on the bank from now on. Was getting my shoulders and head around and getting my turns in tighter each time this morning. After watching my videos from this morning I've noticed a few things I still need to work on as far as arm control and aiming at 12 o'clock on the way up so that's my game plan for tomorrow morning.

I do wish my park has a decent sized corner opposite a ramp so I could work on turns like Clayton's able to is his bowl, but herr its all half pipes, that one decent sized bank and the bowl so I'll have to work with what I got.

I've tried that before. Guess I'll have to give it another go.

Hope your on it Graham. Yeeewwww

I mean if you are in Hawaii you can drive to a different side of the island. Maui I know is a little tricky cause of the shadow from Oahu but there should always be somewhere to catch a wave or 2. If not you can do what John john does and foil board lol

This is where I'm struggling at the moment. Getting my head to lean over far enough to get the perpendicular to the bowl. Not sure what I need to do to get that more lean stance going.

Oh with less arms is easy sauce. I usually have lazy arms. I was actually vizualing having a stick and riding my bike around the bowl. I am usually guilty of having the John Johnish left arm, hanging by my side then just holding the coffee cup in my right. I can hopefully get a video of that tomorrow if it's not raining in morning.

I'd really like to get more perpendicular to the bowl, get that traditional almost laid back skate board type carve around the bowl. I think I may need more speed to accomplish which in such a tight bowl would probably have me needing to use the roll in, but it's big an scary to me still. Working on it...

But yea I can definitely do a lot less arm.

Yea, that turn I feel like it needs to be held. Skateboarders I watched when learning to ride bowls mention that a bowl is designed to be ridden a certain way, and you kinda have to ride the bowl the way the designer intended.

Towards the end of that turn is a hip, so making the turn tighter, while it can be done, puts you in an awkward position to go over the little hip that is there. Watched others and experienced eating poop trying to shorten that turn. It's awkward cause it's a small hip and where the roll in is. If you shorten the turn too much it either puts you into the flats or give you that weird angle directly at the hip. Which has a nasty habit of jack knifing your trucks there.

The company that put the bowl in actual tried talking the skateshop that sponsors the bowl Into NOT having that hip for that specific reason, being that it can give you awkward angles in and out of it. But the owner of the shop knew a lot of surfers would be too uncomfortable with a straight drop in, and really wanted the roll in/hip.

So while I do understand your point and agree with it, that particular spot almost seems to require it. The skaters better than I tend to do airs over it, but I ain't trying that yet.