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How to do a cutback. Tips???
- Thread starter casa_mugrienta
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You have to start it with your trailing arm high enough to set it on rail then follow through from below so you don't bog the rail and get pitched off.
Like Casa said, you also have to be loose-enough to let the torso motion transfer through to your hips.
Now if I could only do it.
Ahhhh what do I know. As a 11 and 12 yo minigrom my youngest was doing better cutbacks than me anyway. Time flies.
never realized how bad i was at cutbacks until i surfed a wave like Las Flores that requires tons of swoops and winding up back in the power source accurately.
Late 80s or early 90s either er or ing magazine ran a series in about six issues with painted illustrations of pros demonstrating and talking through the techniques. There was a real good one on Curren's roundhouse technique. That would be a good one to post if anyone has it handy.
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He was going one way. and now he's going another way. He cut back.
I try to get the lead arm out of the way by holding it low. It opens up the shoulder and you can rotate your core more fully.
Roundhouses are the same in the way you open up the shoulders. But I like to stay in a balled up crouch longer. Most times I rebound kinda meh. But the good backside off the lip rebounds gotta make sure to lift the nose up and spot the section of whitewater to hit.
few people in the water can do proper roundhouses and really hit the section. you have to twist your head around and look at it before you hit it. much harder fs than bs.
You need to twist your body and swing your hips with weight on your backfoot. Think of winding up a coil and releasing the power through your rear leg.
it also helps to have a board that drives through the turn. I hate boards that die in the middle of the turn and don't allow you to come out of it and smash the section. thick tail and no center anchor!
same turn as a bottom turn on the opposite side.
same turn as a bottom turn on the opposite side.
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