There are just a few Short Board Surfing Maneuvers to Master to enjoy the shortboard experience. These maneuvers can be learned on soft tops after the surfer is riding real waves. Learning on soft tops and then moving slowly to shorter hard boards is a great way to progress.
The basic maneuvers are bottom turns, cutbacks, and accelerating. After learning these, surfers usually move to ripping the lip. More advanced surfers will get into 360’s and aerials. Most surfers are content with the first three.
Carving Can Begin in Foam Waves
I have students practicing the basic carving maneuver in foam waves. The surfer turns his eyes toward the turn and then his upper torso. This torques down his body to his feet where he applies gentle pressure to his toes or heels, whichever is on the side of the carve. It is important not to lean into the carve, but just torque the upper body and apply pressure to the feet.
On real waves, the surfer catches the wave down the face and then bottom turns into the pocket. This is the same procedure we discussed riding foam. As the surfer reaches the pocket he can accelerate for speed by pushing the nose of the board up and down the face with his front foot. Two or three pumps is sufficient to then execute another maneuver.
Cutback Maneuvers
The surfer can cutback to reach the power of the wave once again. He is reversing direction, so he looks down the wave and carves to reverse back to the power and then cuts back again. The surfer will also use the combination of bottom turn and cutback to rip the lip. He bottom turns up the face and then at the top, does a cutback to go back down the face. He often brushes the lip with the tail of the board to spray.
To do aerials and 360’s he flies above the lip and then performs the trick. There are also reverse cutbacks, riding on top of the lip, and reverse aerials. So many tricks to learn if the surfer is inspired to put in the time and go through the crashes.
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