Laybacks are different for me. Never could figure out the two arm drag. I always raise my lead arm to counter balance the dropping of my trailing arm. Core strength helps, there’s a little hint of muscle under the gut.
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How to do a cutback. Tips???
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Laybacks are different for me. Never could figure out the two arm drag. I always raise my lead arm to counter balance the dropping of my trailing arm. Core strength helps, there’s a little hint of muscle under the gut.
The dad of that Jackson kid surfs pretty good. Back in the Momentum era Taylor Knox was my favorite surfer to try to emulate. Face it, none of us were going to surf like Kelly, Machado or the squirrley little Hawaiian kid but you could watch a video section of Taylor Knox and you had something you could try to emulate your next session. I always viewed his surfing to be as close to technically perfect as any average Joe could aspire to. On rail surfing at its best. Joel Parkinson is very similar in that way too.This guy has always had one of the best cutbacks imho. Still got it at 50!
A younger version of me, northern Baja cutback.
one tip I remember someone teaching me to really hit the rebound was to do a two stage cutback. Like a rounder first stage then almost a second backside bottom turn to really crack it.
1:55 & 2:11 & 2:38 - Good roundhouse cutbacks. 1:42 - cutback smooth af but no bank = by definition not a roundhouse the way I learned.
Missed a frame or two, but it looks like I made it back to the pocket anyway. Part of a long somewhat ungainly sequence
The best roundhouse I've ever seen was in one of the old Billabong videos(VHS) in the late 80's/early 90's. Can't remember which one, but I think it was "In The Wind", and it was at the beginning of "Breed" by Nirvana. I think I do them just like that
EDIT: Wow, "In the Wind" is on YouTube(horrible quality). The roundhouse I'm referring to starts at 18:48.
EDIT: Wow, "In the Wind" is on YouTube(horrible quality). The roundhouse I'm referring to starts at 18:48.
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love that section. Looked for it, but couldn't find any clips of Justin Poston roundhouses. Chris Brown, goes w/o saying.
it ain't a roundhouse if you don't smash the section.
it ain't a roundhouse if you don't smash the section.
uhmmmm, I’m not very good but I think your leading hand will naturally always be your leading hand… unless you’re flapping, in which case your leading shoulder is always your leading shoulder, no..??..
Leading arm/shoulder (left) becomes pivot zone/point.
Trailing arm/shoulder(right) becomes the lead, swings you through the turn, driving you back to the power source.
Funny how you ask for tips. Cause a question mark means asking. Then casa-correct another post. Kinda like a wanna be lawyer. “Don’t ask a question you don’t already know the answer to.”
Whatever. Here’s a new Mason clip featuring some textbook cutbacks to off the lip rebounds by Mick Fanning.
Whatever. Here’s a new Mason clip featuring some textbook cutbacks to off the lip rebounds by Mick Fanning.
The request for tips was a joke - no amount of tips will help anyone do a turn like that.
I think the guys who do cutbacks with heavy upper body rotation and their arms up in the air, even though they are really cranking their boards around, are doing a very ugly maneuver. Keeping the leading hand low and letting your hips rather than your shoulders propel the rotation is much more appealing, at least to my eye.
Since he hasn't taken the bait (or even seen it), Hildo demonstrating:
Now you tell me, after all that searching I did for this photo?
Disco cutbacks suck lol.
That’s how you do it bs snowboarding. Back elbow tucked in and drive the hips.
Start high. Finish low.
Plus if you had to rotate the upper body than how why do grab rail turns works?
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Ok, THIS is now the best roundhouse cutback I've seen..... 
Nathan Fletcher, starts at 2:48 in the video.
Nathan Fletcher, starts at 2:48 in the video.