oh man. I sucked at skating for so long. Trying to land a kickflip for months. Hours and hours of it. Pure pain.
REMINDER: THE ARENA PLATFORM, INC. has no obligation to monitor the Forums. However, THE ARENA PLATFORM, INC. reserves the right to review any materials submitted to or posted on the Forums, and remove, delete, redact or otherwise modify such materials, in its sole discretion and for any reason whatsoever, at any time and from time to time, without notice or further obligation to you. THE ARENA PLATFORM, INC. has no obligation to display or post any materials provided by you. THE ARENA PLATFORM, INC. reserves the right to disclose, at any time and from time to time, any information or materials that we deem necessary or appropriate to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, contract obligation, legal or dispute process or government request. Click on the following hyperlinks to further read the applicable Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Brad Gerlach Wave Ki
- Thread starter Havoc
- Start date
v. true.
no crossover at all from street.
Most kids who surf here and rip can skate bowls (well).
You can see the flow and the way they get comfortable doing grinds, slides and airs leads to similar manoeuvres in the water.
Also weighting/unweighting and using gravity and potential energy to harness/generate speed with quiet upper body.
Medina and JJF would be two main guys with a skate background who demonstrate that.
I'm on the gear now. Its like having an electric motor bolted to the underside of my 4' 8" micro foamie. I had my best wave ever since my skateboard accident on it midweek (not sure what day as I'm surfing so much). Thanks for the cue, I just said to myself "triactin teeroi would shred" and I actually managed multiple tiger/superman pumps down the line despite the little flexible fins making for a very slidy ride. I've been practicing the cues in anticipation of getting back on my fibreglass boar, which as of a few days/3 sessions ago has happened.
Getting back on the fibreglass was a bit of a shock, the boar paddles underwater! I suppose that's the difference between 35L and 23. The fibreglass boar does catch waves better though and duckdiving is a breeze in comparison. On my first session I could not turn it - felt too needly and tracky which I realised was incorrect back foot postion - the extra length meant I was popping up with my feet too far forward. Plus I am really out of touch with the way it reacts. The second sesh went much better in onshore messy peaks. This morning had a shocking sesh on it - too big and dumping and I hardly caught anything and came in early to save energy for tomorrow. I did go in this arvo on my standup boog for some easy inside white water takeoff/backoff high tide waves - had considerably more standup time on the boog than the morning sesh on the fibreglass. Apart from being fun I think it helps my popup fitness. Surprisingly once its up and planing it rides little waves all the way to the beach more easily than the fibreglass. I put that down to no fin drag, rectangular planshape holding width and very little rocker.
I'm going to take a rest tomorrow morning (likely to be dumping again) and do my rotator cuff elastic band exercises instead, thus saving energy for the arvo high tide sesh on the fibreglass. Swell will have dropped a bit and it should be peaky at high tide. I'm going to remember the triactin, I can't wait!
Glad you’re back in the water.
I watch my friends ease back into surfing after an injury on cheater boars. Mid-lengths or mini- mals. I think it takes longer to get back into shortboar paddling shape doing that. Last time I hurt my shoulder I rode an oversized fish for a couple of surfs then back on my shortboar. My regulars in town and NS are a long paddle and I paddled in as hard as I paddled out. I felt it got me back into my mediocre paddling shape sooner.
23L that’s a chip. My dd are 32L.
My paddling fitness is good now. I put a lot of work into the rehab exercises and I've been back in the water a while now. The micro foamie has been good, it doesn't paddle or catch waves well because it is short, but its 35L means it sits high out of the water which was good for my shoulder condition, being soft it also helped confidence. I was able to apply the triactin yesterday arvo and committed myself to the takeoffs on the fibreglass and got plenty of waves. I need to get my takeoff timing back, no answer to that other than to get out there and practice and think positive think triactin.
you probably don't need the triactin, its people like me and Yuri who can benefit. I recommend tiger-superman for all levels of surfing.
This guy popped up on YouTube. Surfs much better than Yury and his reviews are more detailed. Plus he’s an older Asian goofy footer. Feeling that. But he’s a little too tall to be in my mental midget club.
Hes pretty good for a tall Asian. He must eat long grain rice.
Black belt fo suu.
Advanced/expert. The squirt he gets on the Bobby Quad in those little waves is high level. If he surfed my regular and minded his manner he would get waves. Maybe not sets unless he knows one of the uncles but he’d get nuggets.
I think he’s 53 so I would put him in advanced / expert as well.
If you can do a roundhouse I would put you in the top 1% of surfers in the World.
Is the bottom of the scale the guy you've seen at the regular for ten years and somehow still sucks 
waving: reading through this thread hasn't cured my kookdom) or the fifty year-old dad from Nebraska that tried surfing once on his vacation to Cabo even though he had the shits because he decided to try "ethnic" food for the first time?
waving: reading through this thread hasn't cured my kookdom) or the fifty year-old dad from Nebraska that tried surfing once on his vacation to Cabo even though he had the shits because he decided to try "ethnic" food for the first time?
The bottom of the scale is like porn . You know it when you see it.
That guy was gold.
Intelligent, articulate and surfs great.
No way I could grovel like that in those tiny waves.
Intelligent, articulate and surfs great.
No way I could grovel like that in those tiny waves.
I've been moving in the opposite direction to arm waving- trying to do less on a wave, be more patient and do bigger, fuller turns.
I like the way this kids surfs, very simple but every turn is really framed up by classical body positioning.
I like the way this kids surfs, very simple but every turn is really framed up by classical body positioning.