How To Duck Dive
Duck diving is a technique used by surfers to sink their surfboards underwater to enable the wave to roll over them. This process enables you to push your board underneath the power of the wave, avoiding the white water and continuing out to your take-off spot….
How To Frontside Tailslide
A tail side is an advanced maneuver where the back of the board slides around as a result of your fins breaking out of the water. Most often performed on forehand re-entries and cutbacks and sometimes on backhand re-entires. Ordinarily, it is not good for your fins to break…
How To Pop Up Intermediate
Making your pop up more consistent and reliable starts with a solid foundation. Laying good foundations early is a key to your future progression. Poping up requires one continuous explosive movement of balance and skill. As with any skill, it takes practice. The more you practice the…
How To Frontside Tuberide
The tube ride is the ultimate ride. Often referred to as “getting barrelled” or “shacked’ or “int he green room” and many other names. A tube ride is when a surfer rides inside the breaking wave. Preferably, with the wave not touching you at all….
How To Generate Speed
The advanced surfer is constantly thinking of how to increase speed in order to gain power. The speed at which your surfboard moves allows you to keep pace with the peeling lip and the wave face to perform maneuvers. Power is being able to use gained…
How To Angle Your Take Off
Angling your take off allows a surfer to drop in on waves that are steep. Popping Up with a slight angle will help you get the momentum you need to ride on the wave’s face, to either go right or left. HOW TO ANGLE YOUR…
Beginners. Resist The Urge To Ride Smaller Boards
Learning to surf takes time. In fact, surfing is probably one of the most difficult sports to master. There are just so many moving parts and an incredibly steep learning curve on an ever-changing canvas of infinite possibilities. Basic physics tell us that surfing larger…
10 Benefits Skating Has On Your Surfing
Surfing is sooo goddamn hard. Damnit! It’s not like skateboarding where the conditions are always the same, where you can practice the same tricks over and over again until you get it. In surfing the conditions are never the same, they’re constantly changing, and this…