duck dive

[guest]

hey, I just bought a new board and its a 6'6 shortboard, pintail. Well anyways ive been riding it for about 3 weeks and im having a lot of trouble duck diving with it. I have no trouble riding waves with it i just cant get under them. Im 5'6 and my weight is 110 and im a girl. I just needed some info to help me cause its really hard for me to sink the board and by the time i do it the wave passes. Thanks for the help

[namino tsume]

press down like you were going to pop up, but just keep pressing then as your board sinks, bring your knee up and push down with that.

[Cal-surfer]

hey i have a question on the topic of that one. I can duckdive easy so i thought, some 9ft faces came in awhile back and i couldnt duckdive those for crap lol is there a trick to getting past bigger waves?

[m]

hey im 5'7 and 114 pounds (guy) and used to have trouble ducking waves. if you're boards thick, then at our weight, you're pretty much screwed. if its normal or thinner though, its all about timing and either using you're knee to knock the back end down or you're foot. then when you're under, sort of pull up on the nose and hold on tight, and the wave should shoot you out the back of it.

cal surfer- i used to have a lot of trouble ducking the white when the surf got over 8 feet. ducking big waves is ALL about timing. time it early and the white will suck you back over. time it late and the front end of the white will get a hold of you. you have to get under just long enough for the wave to get a hold of you and your board and shoot you out the back of it. try using you're foot to get deeper instead of you're knee. you'll still get rocked everyonce and a while, but just work on your timing and it'll work most of the time.

[babyboarder89]

id love to duckdive, it looks so fun!

[IrishGirl]

I've a 6' 10" and it's very thick also -almost 3". Very hard to duckdive large waves. I read a new "better" method of duckdiving now which is different to the way I normally duckdive so I got a bit of a battering tonight testing it! :roll:

Want to get a thinner, smaller board for winter!