Hey all!

Living a long way from the sea, I've been working on some surf skating in the bowl and trying to apply the techniques in the content here.

So, I have a question - lot of the drills around turning seem to be demonstrated in the corners of bowls / the 'sphere bowl' you guys have, rather than on the straight wall. My intuition is that the bowl corner provides quite a bit of extra "hold" and centripetal force because you're riding through curvature, whereas a straight wall seems like it would require you to generate and control the turn much more yourself.

From a surfing perspective, how well does practising in bowl corners / concave ramps actually translate compared with practising on the straight sections?To me, a straight wall almost feels closer to a typical wave face. On the other hand, I appreciate that a wave is moving forward and has its own dynamics, so perhaps that's providing some of the support that the bowl corner provides on concrete.

Is there a coaching reason OMBE tends to demonstrate these turns in bowl corners? Is the goal simply to teach the underlying body mechanics (compression, extension, rotation, timing, etc.), with the exact terrain being less important, or is there something about the bowl corner that actually makes it a better analogue for a wave than I'm appreciating? I'd love to understand the thinking behind it.

TL;DR: If my goal is to improve my surfing rather than my bowl riding, am I better off practising these drills on the long straight wall at my local skatepark, or should I be trying to replicate the OMBE approach by practising them in concave sections?