Surfers progressing to shortboards learn the Surfing Shortboard Carves and Maneuvers. The main reason surfers want to learn the shortboard is because the low volume and thin rails allow deeper cuts into the water and more extreme maneuvers. If this is not your interest, it is easier to surf on higher volume boards.
Carving can be learned on soft tops while beginners are still in foam waves. The main execution of a carve is to first look in the direction of desired travel. Then the head and upper torso turn in that direction. This torques down the body to the feet which pressure the board. Pressure is added to the toes or heels on the side of the carve. Speed allows a deeper carve and is why surfers accelerate before a maneuver.
Initiating the Carves
Carves are generally to the face side or back side and up or down the face. Getting a deep carve up the face often finds surfers dropping down on the board and setting the rail deep into the wave face. Coming off the face and getting into a barrel often finds the surfer staying low on the board and grabbing a rail to hold the opposite rail into the wave face for a sharper carve.
Ripping the lip is a popular maneuver and after surfers have carved up the face in the carve, they reverse direction to spray the lip with the tail of the board and head back down the face. These two maneuvers are a bottom turn up the face and a cut back to get down the face. The bottom turn is used to go from the face to the pocket and the cut back is used to reverse direction to get back to the power of the wave.
Accelerating for Each Maneuver
Before and after each maneuver, the surfer accelerates for speed. This is moving the nose of the board up and down the face with the front foot. Two or three pumps is usually sufficient to get the speed necessary. Even soft tops can be accelerated on a wave and is a good place to start. The surfer should still be on a soft top when they begin riding real waves and can perform bottom turns, cutbacks and accelerations. The better the surfer executes the maneuvers while still on a soft top, the easier it is when he moves to hard boards.
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