Many boarders including skateboarders and snowboarders want to take carving to surfing when they learn. They ask When Can You Start Learning Surf Carving? You can begin in the foam waves.
Carving is applying pressure to the rails of the board with the toes or heels. The surfer starts by looking in the direction of the carve. He moves his eyes, head, shoulders, and upper torso in the direction of the carve without leaning with his body. The torque runs down to his feet and he pressures the toes or heels on the side of the carve.
Begin on Soft Tops in Foam Waves
Riding foam waves on a soft top board, the surfer can begin practice. Often, if he pumps a few times (body up and down on soft knees) he gets the board in front of the foam and then begins his carve. He should practice right and left carves and then do both on the same run as if slaloming. Most surfers find they have a favorite direction, but it is necessary to be proficient with both directions.
On real waves, the surfer carves coming off the face with a bottom turn which turns him into the pocket. The bottom turn is the same as the surfer was practicing in foam waves. Then the surfer accelerates for speed in the pocket by pushing the nose of the board up and down the face of the wave.
Learning the Cutback
Next, the surfer learns the cutback which is a reverse of direction. The surfer is riding the wave and looks down and turns his body down the wave and reverses direction back to more power in the wave. Sometimes its for power and sometimes the cutback or half cutback is for style.
Ripping the lip is doing a bottom turn up the face and at the top doing a cutback. The surfer can spray the lip by whipping the tail at the top. This trick takes a lot of practice and is the most often seen maneuver on waves. Surfers try to rip as many times as possible on a ride. This is usually with short boards as long boards can’t rip the lip.
Tricks after this might include aerials, 360’s, floating the lip, and reverses. Surfers watch skateboarders and snowboarders and visa versa to learn new tricks and take them to their own medium.
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