Do you have any footage surfing on the new board?

Have you surfed at Bristol before? I'm not familiar wirh either wave pool, but it might be better to limit the variables and take the bigger board if you don't have much experience at Bristol. You'd still have the option to rent a smaller board for a couple sessions if you find the bigger board is holding you back.

Looks like you are pumping and flowing well around the bowl. For working on turns, I like to focus on a corner and hit it with less speed so there is more time to work on the upper body movement.

Nice, are you going to try to get some video?

Coryn Daniel This day was probably the best the waves have been for practicing carving turns/cutbacks in my area since I came across OMBE. I got one decent turn on video from this day which I posted a while back. Had several others that felt good but my camera blew over 20 min into the session. After this day, it was about a month until I had another good session where the waves were cooperating. If waves were that good consistently I think I'd be a lot further along. Hardest part of surfing has to be the lack of repetition.

Mark Hind Thanks, yeah I feel like I didn't even get a chance to look back at the foam, etc. because I fell so quickly. I think posture may have been the main culprit that blocked the rest of the steps from happening. Twisting the wrist is a good cue, but always blank on that in the water.

Graham Marsden I wish I had more of my successful attempts on video to see what is different, but I noticed the same thing about collapsing forward at the waist on this wave. Maybe that shuts the whole thing down and makes it difficult to properly pass the coffee, look back at the foam, etc.

Steven Segal I might be wrong but I think you may have waited too long to initiate a bottom turn and traveled too far into the flats where the wave has less power. Graham Marsden how do you see it?

I struggle with generating speed on weaker waves and I am more likely to get stuck behind the section if it's a faster wave when going back side.

I find it helps to look down the line while in the process of the back side take off. You kind of went straight down into the flats before turning your head to look at what the wave was doing.

At the point where the video stopped, you're feet are close to the heel side edge of the board but you're hinged at the hips with your weight over the center or possibly toe side of the board.

I actually just tried this on a bosu ball.  Standing upright with my heels close to the edge, the ball was obviously tilted with the edge resting on the ground.  When I hinged at the hips and put my weight over the center/toe side it brought the bosu ball level even though my feet were on the edge.

I think you're upper body in that position is keeping the board flatter whereas if you were standing more upright with your feet in that position I think you would have gotten a little more rail engagement.  But like Graham said, that board would probably be hard to get on rail in any case.