Thank you so much Clayton Nienaber ! This makes sense

Graham Marsden thank you for the thoughtful comment and diagram! And I 100% agree. My hypothesis on why this happened (besides the usual caveat that I suck 😇) is:

1. I turn bottom too late which means I’m out in the flats and thus lack some lift on my approach to the top turn

2. This is bc I bogged rail on the drop and lost a second saving that and regaining neutral posture (see 0:03 - 0:04)

3. I’m guessing this is bc I popped up with my front foot off to the heelside of the stringer, so when I pushed on my front foot to drop into the wave it caused the heelside rail to bog momentarily

(My sincere apologies for my backhand 😇)

(PS it was super fast bc too small, but I did did see a great surfer make this section and it was insane. 30 seconds+ ride, multiple long barrels, hands on his head in disbelief when spitting out at the end. Beautiful to watch)

100%! the small ones are fast and have teeth. It was one of my biggest takeaways from this trip. And you always tell us this! But can be intimidating as an intermediate to take the advice to go bigger when it ’s 2X overhead on these reefs 😅😇

Hope you had an amazing trip!

Super helpful, thank you!

I sometimes feel my best bottom turns come on my kick outs, which might be related to your point. I stop trying to control, get very loose and suddenly just flow to target