waikikikichan wrote:1st - You got to stop looking back.
2nd - Sit down turns
3rd - Dismount, end the wave cleanly and in control.
5th- Watusi dance - 5:46 what was up with the flailing arms ? As other wrote, that just created more motion to fling you off the board.
Trim - 1:54, 2:27, 2:35 and 5:19 all those you set your line and had nice trim. Those waves you didn't flail as much but had better longer rides
I finally had the chance to look into the time lapse and video. Actually I can still remember most of the wave and why I've done it.
1st- I look back for 3 reasons, Either I'm checking for my position on the wave or how far away I'm from the lineup and whether I can swim directly towards the lineup. Third reason is I know I've missed the wave and I don't know what to do so I look behind me.
2nd and 3rd, yes I really need to work on that. But I don't sit down because I think the white water is going to push me further into the shore. I'm short and small so for me a longboard is sometimes hard to control and I can't stop it.
The Watusi dance finally clicked, you won't believe what I was trying to do. I was trying to generate speed or trying to turn the board. Whether it is by moving up and down the wave or by shifting my weight. But there is no way anyone could tell that was what I was trying to do

Each time when you see me flailing my arms around, it usually means I'm trying to twist my body and shift the weight or trying to do something to make it turn. But by doing so I loses balance and the board becomes very wobbly.
The times that you said I had a nice trim. It's because I wasn't trying to do anything due to the size of the wave. Apart from the first wave, the other were big for my standard. Therefore I didn't attempt to do turns or try to manouever the board. I just wanted to ride it safely. The wave feels like it was much bigger, but now I look at the video and it is so just average size. It felt like it was overhead waves but now I just think they are waist to maybe at max shoulder size.