how to practice the duckdive

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how to practice the duckdive

Postby TReMoR » Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:27 pm

i do understand basically how to do it.. but the waves around here have been fairly calm and i just get through without having to do anything.. how should i practice? is it possible to practice it without a breaking wave ahead of you?
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Postby drowningbitbybit » Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:43 pm

Yup.
The bit that you're practising is sinking you and the board and then the 'scoop' forward, so you can practise on flat water.
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Postby the.ronin » Sun Jul 27, 2008 6:45 pm

Absolutely you can practice without a wave. It's better with a buddy so he or she can tell if you if you fully submerged yourself. The deeper you go the better.

I also sometimes duck dive in place to cool off if I wore a suit and it's too hot.
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Postby pkbum » Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:30 pm

the.ronin wrote:Absolutely you can practice without a wave. It's better with a buddy so he or she can tell if you if you fully submerged yourself. The deeper you go the better.

I also sometimes duck dive in place to cool off if I wore a suit and it's too hot.


I tried that and bunch of people were laughing at me :oops:
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Postby the.ronin » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:08 pm

pkbum wrote:
the.ronin wrote:Absolutely you can practice without a wave. It's better with a buddy so he or she can tell if you if you fully submerged yourself. The deeper you go the better.

I also sometimes duck dive in place to cool off if I wore a suit and it's too hot.


I tried that and bunch of people were laughing at me :oops:


Hahaha for real??? I do it all the time. :lol:
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Postby pkbum » Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:03 am

I decided not to do that from that day.. made a fool out of myself. lol i bet those life guard were also laughing there asses off.
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Postby TReMoR » Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:02 am

ill go try that :) thanks
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Postby LOLRuss » Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:20 am

Practice in whatever small waves you've got. The important thing is that you get the movement and the timing, and that doesn't need big waves.
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Postby Beachbum » Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:49 am

ya just paddle really hard and the momentum will help you out big time.
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Postby Thibb » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:00 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUs4mjdDHNE&feature=related

Even better: watch the duck go over the falls and wonder why they ever decided to call it duck-diving...
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Postby 808sluggo » Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:05 am

if u wanna do something at home try pushups that helped me alot to push the board down
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