Carving the Surfing Short Board is a technique learned by intermediates and continuously worked on by professionals. The carving is the initiation of any tricks or maneuvers. Advanced surfers seek surfboards that ride and carve for different situations, but intermediates first have to learn the techniques.
Carving can begin when riding foam waves. When students are riding to the beach well balanced, I start them carving on the way in. In most sports, the torque is delivered to the hands like in golf, baseball, tennis, and boxing and it starts at the feet. With surfing the torque is delivered to the feet and it starts with the eyes.
Learning to Carve on Surfing Short Boards
The carve begins with turning the eyes in the direction of the turn. At the same time, the head, shoulders and upper torso is turning while the lower torso remains the same. As the upper torso is turned, the core and lower body deliver the the torque to the feet. The feet are utilized with the toes or heels, whichever is on the side of the carve applying pressure to the board.
When surfers want to do a bottom turn to carve up the face of the pocket, they like to compress and drag the wave side hand in the water as they pressure the rail of the surfboard into the face of the wave. As they drive up the face they have lots of options. If the want to rip the lip, the initiate a cut back so they reverse direction as the tail of the board slides and sprays over the lip.
The cut back is a carve in which the surfer reverses the direction of travel. If he is going up the face, he turns his eyes then upper torso toward the bottom of the wave and then the toes or heels help finish the pressure to the surfboard. The surfer also accelerates for speed in the pocket by running the nose of the surfboard up and down the face with the front foot.
Learning to carve can be practiced on a skateboard. Sean Maddison was demonstrating on Carver skateboards in YouTube videos how a surfer turns the carves between cones into the same carves on the waves. Carving makes wave riding entertainment and different every time.
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