Carving on the Surfing Short Board

carving on the surfing shortboard

Carving on the Surfing Short Board is the key to starting maneuvers. Most carves are initiated with the same actions. They can be practiced even on a softtop in foam waves.

When I have students that are also snowboarders and skateboarders that have mastered the beginning fundamentals of riding foam waves to the beach, I teach them how to carve. They carve on their boards doing other sports.

Starting the Carve

The surfing carve is initiated with the eyes looking in the direction of the turn. Then the head and upper torso twist in that direction. This creates a torque in the body that reaches the feet and then the surfboard. It is the opposite of torque in golf, boxing, baseball, and tennis. In those sports, the torque begins in the legs and torques up to the hands. The torque gives the hands or feet all the bodies power.

The surfing short board can have thin rails which allows a deep cut into the wave and a sharp turn. Soft tops have thick rails and they move slower so it is easy to catch an edge and you can’t bury the rail in wave as easily. The action on a short board preceding the maneuver is to gain speed. This is an acceleration of moving the nose up and down the wave with the front foot. Two or three moves is enough to perform the next maneuver or trick.

The Three Basic Carves and Maneuvers

The bottom turn gets the surfboard into the pocket after riding down the face. The cut back gets the board back to the power of the lip as the pocket starts to lose momentum. Ripping the lip is executing a bottom turn to go up the face and then a cut back to go back down the face while spraying the lip with the tail.

With the bottom turn, acceleration and cut back you have the basics of most tricks and maneuvers.

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