Had lots of great sessions at the prom this year, but the best were with my son!

fun to watch ....nice bail outs.

Nice waves, I must get down to the Prom again soon it's been along time between drinks!

We had some great surf sessions last week Jason! And I reckon we got lucky with the weather! Nice vid and love the music! (Think you left one day too soon!) Actually got out with my son on the Saturday - he was on my Fanatic Allwave - his first time surfing a SUP after years on a standard surfboard. Good fun!

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We had some great surf sessions last week Jason! And I reckon we got lucky with the weather! Nice vid and love the music! (Think you left one day too soon!) Actually got out with my son on the Saturday - he was on my Fanatic Allwave - his first time surfing a SUP after years on a standard surfboard. Good fun!

D'oh! Well, I guess I shouldn't complain, we had a pretty good run. I hope to have another surf down there Thursday morning. Fingers crossed.

How did your son go on the sup?

Nice waves CSE, looked like a lot of fun! It must have been a blast with your son!
You mentioned needing to learn a backside turn....
Backside turns are actually very easy on SUP. I say that because SUPs are relatively big and the leverage available give backside an advantage over front side on SUP IMO.

When surfing backside, the mere act of placing your rear foot near the rail, transfers your weight to the rail through your heels and shifts your weight out over the tail because of the way your body position is with knees bent during a turn.
Add just a little drive with the back foot, and some upper body rodation and the board snaps around!
Commit over the rail and the board will follow!

Pic showing heels on the rail, body out over the rail.
Both pics are the same, I just rotated it in the 2nd pic to level the horizon so you could see the way my body weight applies force to the rail in the turn, simply by moving the heels near the rail.

Thanks STC.

What I can't do is anything in quick transition - the top turn. With my heels on the board providing the weight I don't feel super in control, but the ability to cut up the wave and then quickly perform the top turn and go back down still escapes me. Some times I manage to go from a horizontal slice across the wave (i.e. just surfing along the wave to the left) and then make a turn down the wave like a bottom turn (i.e. pressure on my toes on the other side of the board - like the action on a bottom turn) so that I head down the wave and then back to the power source. I can then usually pull an OK turn to then head back to the left, but if I go up the wave too quickly I just head right over the top. So now I just turn, head back along the wave to the left, and either make a lame turn down and back up the wave, or do another turn back to the breaking wave.

You are a clever guy if you can follow any of that!

Basically, it is the top turn going left that gives me grief.

It's easier if you use less moving parts.
You can leave your front foot centered, then it's just a little move of the back foot.

This video is a few years old, so still nose cam... they are great for studying your footwork.
Ignore all my running around.... just look at the back foot moving rail to rail.

Thanks STC. I was looking at some of the vids I took over the last couple of weeks. On the front side I am moving my feet constantly. On the backside hardly at all... That's what I need to work on!