Who else is riding?

[jbort]

Ragboy:

Your input is greatly appreciated and most helpful. Will share and post up so my darling wife might move along.

[ragboy]

No problem, get that girl surfing!

[brykerwoods]

360 Attempts from Lake Austin

A compilation of 360 attempts from the weekend. Did not hit a single one. Always enjoy your comments and feedback.

[ragboy]

man, you are close. I will leave the 360 coaching to dennis, but I have a few pointers. First, start your 360 closer to the boat. RJ said, you don't need that much speed forward to start your 3, just some speed forward, will help you keep stable if you slow down your forward speed a bit. Keep your knees bent and try to point the nose down towards the boat at the end of your spin. The knees bent will help you keep your balance and from falling back on your heels. The nose down will help you stop rotation at the end of the spin. Its a fine line, bury the nose too much and you will pearl. Have fun trying.

RJ happened to be looking over my shoulder on this one, good luck!

Oh, wave looks awesome, and familiar!

[Surfdad]

Nice falls! The two different boards actually require two different approaches, so my response may seem convoluted. On the Triple X composite - the skimmer, you want to spin that basically at the base of the wake, don't try it on the face. In each of the attempts you are way up the face, come in at the bottom, crouch down and use only ONE HAND to start the spin. You are seriously over-rotating and probably just using your trailing hand will fix that issue. To stop the rotation, stand up. You might have to time that standing up such that you you start it at 270 degrees and the rotation stops at 360. Most of those spins looked pretty good and if you review the vid you're spinning nice and flat. You can also stop the rotation by back-paddling in the wake. Over or under rotation can be adjusted by how long you leave that trailing hand in the water - longer to rotate more, less to rotate less.

In all of your attempts you do NOT need to come blasting into the wake from the back of the pocket - man are you hauling a$$! You just need enough speed to keep the tail from sinking. Start just about one board length back.

Is that second board the Nitro? The rip-off of the flyboy? (Hope they rot in hell for that ) If you're running it as a thruster ditch the trailer fin and ride it as a twin. The rotations looked really slow to me, like you were trying to spin as a thruster. The second attempt actually looked pretty good in terms of your position. Again, I wouldn't blast from the back of the pocket and just use the one hand to intiate the spin, your trailing hand.

You're pretty close!

[brykerwoods]

Surfdad...thanks for the feedback as always. The second board is the XXX Slayer Pro X. Not the Nitro. We bought both XXX boards because they were the most 'cost effective' option. I did not know that they had ripped off a design. Thanks for the heads up. That said, we are currently looking at getting the ShredStixx guys here in town to build us a board. Costly but might be worth it. We'll see.

Anytime you guys are in or around Austin let us know. Would love to take you guys out for a couple of runs.

[brykerwoods]

Fins on Inside Setup or Outside

So the Slayer is a four fin thruster. We have the smallest fins at the outside slots. Should we move them to the inside?

[Surfdad]

The quality of the Triple XXX products is good - good epoxy, S-Glass, just that they have a tendency to copy boards. Several years ago they had an exact duplicate of a P5 Icon, right down to the graphics. The workmanship is good considering it's Chinese. I hear you on "value" can't be beat.

It's a quad! Ok, leave the trailers out all together, put the deepest set of fins in the leading fin plugs - they should be closest to the rail. See if that doesn't help with your rotations - you'll be riding it as a twin rather than a quad. If it feels too loose or you're still over-rotating, go back to the quad, but the set up should be DEEPEST fins forward, SHALLOWEST fins toward the back. Give it a day of testing as a twin, it'll take some getting used to, but you should find it rotating and spinning pretty easily.

Without the trailers the board will rotate around the single set of fins and the further forward those fins are, the smaller the arc of that spin will be. You could imagine a set of fins at the center of the board would want to make the board spin in place --- and that's what any turn would feel like too

You're welcome! Keep us posted of your progress.

[Surfdad]

As I mentioned in another thread we just got a new camera, I'm not quite used to it yet! This is a pieced together sequence shot of James doing what we call a wind-to-unwind. It's a surface reverse into a surface 360. The first 5 pictures are from a different iteration than the remainder of the sequence shots. I WILL master that stupid button on the new camera soooon!

[Surfdad]

and the rest.

[Surfdad]

Some pictures from today.

[Surfdad]

...and a few more.

[NICKYPOO]

Nice, Judy rockin it switch! That's awsome. It appears your switch riding is progressing nicely as well. Love to see that kind of stuff. I've spent most of my season so far riding frontside like a normal human being, Quite a departure for me, as you know. I'm glad I have. Was on Tahoe yesterday and the starboard ballast was not working. No worries, I'll surf either side.

[Surfdad]

WHAT?! Frontside? You infadel! Good for you, Nick. I can't ride for extended periods like you, my legs get tired, using the "wrong" muscles or something, but I'm good for a session or two. Isn't Judy a trooper? She has all 4 orientations and hits them all when we ride both sides. Thanks for the props. How was Tahoe? Is it freezing up there still?

[Fiveflat]

I need to work on my form and I really want to land a dang frontside air... just get those fins visible at least. LOL

Good lookin' piccies!