by Prancing monkey » Tue Aug 20, 2019 5:10 pm
by oldmansurfer » Tue Aug 20, 2019 6:54 pm
by IB_Surfer » Tue Aug 20, 2019 11:41 pm
by oldmansurfer » Wed Aug 21, 2019 6:10 pm
by Prancing monkey » Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:40 am
by steveylang » Tue Aug 27, 2019 5:24 pm
oldmansurfer wrote:Well I'm not a shortboarder but something I did to help get my feet back was to change my popup so that I push back a little instead of straight up (which perhaps I have done because I am getting older and it was easier to do that). Another possible way to deal with it which I have done in the past is to make a cardboard cutout of your surfboard and just practice popping up from your paddle position to the position you want to make a good bottom turn. If you are taking a steep drop or hitting some chop it's not a good time to shift your feet so good to have your feet preset for the bottom turn.
by dtc » Tue Aug 27, 2019 10:53 pm
by steveylang » Thu Sep 05, 2019 4:41 pm
by oldmansurfer » Fri Sep 06, 2019 1:38 am
by Prancing monkey » Fri Sep 06, 2019 7:10 am
steveylang wrote:Here's a pretty good video on shifting your back foot (this guy's videos are very good in general.) It's not totally applicable to longer boards since you may need to shift both feet back after popping up, but may help with that first turn.
I find it easy to step forward on a board (say to gain speed) but it feels much less natural to step backwards, probably because I'm not seeing where I'm going. But I just have to trust the process and know I'm not gonna step off the back of the board.
by steveylang » Tue Jan 14, 2020 10:33 pm
by IanCaio » Tue Jan 14, 2020 11:21 pm
by Prancing monkey » Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:09 pm
by dtc » Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:15 am
by Prancing monkey » Tue Jan 28, 2020 2:29 pm
dtc wrote:Having once owned a McCoy nugget, given the fat (so fat....) tail, if you dont have your foot back then its a bit of a disaster trying to turn. However, get it right and they power through the turns very impressively.
Anyway - seems like you are doing it right, so go and enjoy!
by dtc » Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:50 am
by Prancing monkey » Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:47 am
by IB_Surfer » Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:36 pm
Prancing monkey wrote:On my 6,9 hybrid I’ve started to position my chest higher up the board which really helps with an early entry on the wave, but my back foot now lands in front of the tail pad (so not over the fins) which means I’m finding it more difficult to execute a hard first turn after pop up.
Potentially I just need to angle my take off more to help with the first turn, but trying to reposition my back foot straight after pop off seems totally unnatural / unstable. Just wondered how others on this forum reposition after pop up (I.e. adapt pop up, angle take off, move back foot straight away etc etc).
P.s. I’m fine with moving up and down my longboard straight after take off, but then that’s a 9,6 massive mass of tufflite
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