Describe your riding stance. Whats your style?

[Banks]

me: loose, slack, fairly mellow.

being quite tall and skinny i dangle all over the place, absorbing any of the unforeseen bumps in the water. ive grown up skateboarding and think that my mellow style was transferred once i took up surfing some time ago.

to me, style in the water is very important, not just technical ability. a perfect example of what riding style i'd like to mirror is that of Rob Machado - natural and effortless.

Whats yours? and what pros are similar to you in terms of stance and style? Lets hear 'em!

[drowningbitbybit]

"Pants".

[Koki Barrels]

it's been so damn long since i've been surfing i can't remember...lol...nah
I like to get into that charging Greg Noll stance and just fly down huge faces...the only thing missing here is the huge faces... I am praying for Hurricanes, please let the rest of them form and come straight for me, Please!

[twerked]

umm, i don't know. i've never seen video or pics of myself surfing. i'm guessing my steez is pretty ugly, but i could care less. i'd like it to just be smooth and subtle, kind of like parko

[pkbum]

really chill and mellow. i m trying to use least amount of trick and spend as much time in the green wave. bottom turn and roller is my butter and bread.

[TReMoR]

it involves a lot of falling, flailing, and more falling i dont think any pros are similar.... i hope not. LOL

[LOLRuss]

I call my style "About to fall, can't believe I'm standing up," which is closely related to drunken kung foo style.

[kitesurfer]

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KS

[drowningbitbybit]

Sink like a stone?

[kitesurfer]

Sink like a stone?

LOL.

Something like that Matt!

KS

[flyingvee]

Sheeeet

[scsurf]

Kind of a cross between Occy, Curren, Slater, Machado and the girls from blue crush. In there 80's

[Hang11]

Post modern contortionist poo stance

[libby]

Scrabble to my feet, wobble for a few seconds (although the amount of time spent wobbling about on my feet IS improving) then any number of undignified wipeout methods.....

[phillwilson]

Im gonna go with Gangly.

nothing worse then having a mental picture in your head that you are flying along on a real wave looking like youve been doing it years...only to be shown a camphone pic of you looking like mr tickle on an ironing board in an ankles worth of mush!!!

BUMP....back to earth

[Big Man]

Prone

[ChasingDaylight]

HAHAHA philwilson, you crack me up!

You know what the worst thing is? When people get that camera phone photo of them 'surfing' that 3 inch mush looking like a gimp, and use it as their facebook photo.

Mr tickle

[teaweed]

Stink Butt

[Thibb]

At first: straight up, all six foot something of me. Terrible, I know. If I make the drop and do not get bumped off, I will usually remember to bend my knees. If only I would before making the drop, I think my success rate would be a lot higher in choppy surf.

[phillwilson]

Hmmm, funny enough..I may or may not have just been thinking of putting my wobbly pic as my display pic here......yer I'm like a real show off hehee.


On a more serious note, I did actually examine my stance in the morror last night (for lack of waves) and it certainly looks ungainly when i do what i have been doing up to now.

I have noticed quite a lot of longboarders are around my height and they seem to stand far more straight up then me.

i kind of end up hunched.

is it a good thing for longboarders to be less crouched?

conversley, i was told in my sirf lesson to keep a low centre of gravity knees bent etc, however can a 6 foot guy take this too far? cos i think i might be.

would being too crouched from the off make it harder to turn?

any advice on what constitutes a "good" longboard stance?