
Surfing at maroubra on a day like today - smallish swell, too high tide - it tends to jack up with a good vertical wall, and then section, and then close out in one board-breaking detonation. So mostly, I'll take the drop, onto the face, and then out onto the flats as it closes out.
So, here's the problem... how do you gracefully get out of a wave you're riding thats turned into a heaving mass of whitewater behind you?
I tend to go for the leap up and backwards to try and clear the whitewater, but its ugly as sin, and leaves the board on the wrong side of the maelstrom.
Kicking out is impossible as there's no clean gap to kick out of. I know I could kick out before it closes out, but the rides are short enough as it is.
Has anyone worked out how to do this with some semblance of control and/or style?