How should a longboarder ride a wave

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Macaha > 9 months ago, 5 Aug 2019

Macaha

QLD

21981 posts

5 Aug 2019 12:20pm

question

Al G

NSW

7704 posts

5 Aug 2019 12:31pm

With his longboard preferably

Macaha

QLD

21981 posts

5 Aug 2019 12:33pm

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Al G said..
With his longboard preferably

boom

but how?

justaddwater

NSW

763 posts

5 Aug 2019 1:02pm

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Macaha said..

Al G said..
With his longboard preferably

boom

but how?

With STYLE !!! Including Trim grace and flow IMO.

SP

10982 posts

5 Aug 2019 11:27am

Anyway they want.

It's not what you do but how you do it.

Al G

NSW

7704 posts

5 Aug 2019 1:53pm

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Macaha said..

Al G said..
With his longboard preferably

boom

but how?

Maybe a few traditional moves thrown in with how your own style is is good,I tend to ride mine a bit to much like a shortboard sometimes

Macaha

QLD

21981 posts

5 Aug 2019 2:15pm

Ok thanks for the tips I'll give them a go.

laceys lane

QLD

19804 posts

5 Aug 2019 2:37pm

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Al G said..

Macaha said..

Al G said..
With his longboard preferably

boom

but how?

Maybe a few traditional moves thrown in with how your own style is is good,I tend to ride mine a bit to much like a shortboard sometimes

Amen

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Haha

justaddwater

NSW

763 posts

5 Aug 2019 3:01pm

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laceys lane said..

Al G said..

Macaha said..

Al G said..
With his longboard preferably

boom

but how?

Maybe a few traditional moves thrown in with how your own style is is good,I tend to ride mine a bit to much like a shortboard sometimes

Amen

.
Haha

Whoops ,I missed the most important part

Al G

NSW

7704 posts

5 Aug 2019 3:35pm

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laceys lane said..

Al G said..

Macaha said..

Al G said..
With his longboard preferably

boom

but how?

Maybe a few traditional moves thrown in with how your own style is is good,I tend to ride mine a bit to much like a shortboard sometimes

Amen

.
Haha

515

875 posts

5 Aug 2019 2:41pm

Check out some of the "Duct Tape " during the Vans contest

One dude did fin first take off.
Plenty toes on nose but cross step and good old stand on tail bottom turn hit the lip

Macaha

QLD

21981 posts

5 Aug 2019 4:50pm

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515 said..
Check out some of the "Duct Tape " during the Vans contest

One dude did fin first take off.
Plenty toes on nose but cross step and good old stand on tail bottom turn hit the lip

sweet I'll give take a go

Trim & Flow are key...also the position on the wave, aiming to stay in the pocket. Whatever manoeuvres suit your style are fine but the aim to stay in the pocket.
Finally the cross step is quintessential with long boarding and should be the aim of any aspiring slider....even just one cross step forward and back is good enough...just get it into your game!

Macaha

QLD

21981 posts

5 Aug 2019 5:41pm

Cool I'm add that to my back tatt.

laceys lane

QLD

19804 posts

5 Aug 2019 6:48pm

You should ride a longboard like you are cheating.
Well. Thats how i feel when i got that 10 ft seaplane again

Macaha

QLD

21981 posts

5 Aug 2019 7:10pm

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laceys lane said..
You should ride a longboard like you are cheating.
Well. Thats how i feel when i got that 10 ft seaplane again

You just stick to your shortboarding mate and try to stay injury free rest up I've got a new nick name for you, it's called Crime Safe haha you got some

Macaha

QLD

21981 posts

5 Aug 2019 7:49pm

Crime Safe is the mesh they use on fly screens and also used to plug up holes in guts

Cuttlefish

QLD

1332 posts

5 Aug 2019 11:00pm

I do know around here when its head high seeing anyone riding a noserider go anywhere near the nose of the board is rare. The board is simply used as a high volume wave harvester for trimming straight across the wave.

Macaha

QLD

21981 posts

6 Aug 2019 4:49am

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Cuttlefish said..
I do know around here when its head high seeing anyone riding a noserider go anywhere near the nose of the board is rare. The board is simply used as a high volume wave harvester for trimming straight across the wave.

Thats great information

Cuttlefish

QLD

1332 posts

6 Aug 2019 6:00am

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Macaha said..

Thats great information

Observation actually.
Now take that observation and think about whether a change in the board design they are using in overhead waves could be improved over a noserider. Less width in the nose and probably overall, less foam, lower swing weight and so on. Maybe easier steep take offs, different feel, maybe more fun.

Macaha

QLD

21981 posts

6 Aug 2019 6:15am

Yeah I was out on the weekend a guy I sold a 10 noserider to was all over it wave after wave after wave I had the wrong board with me got me thinking, I went home and canceled a order I had placed it was a smallish board volume is king in those conditions.

obct

NSW

3487 posts

6 Aug 2019 6:45am

Like it's the last wave you'll ever ride

MichaelR

NSW

862 posts

6 Aug 2019 11:08am

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obct said..
Like it's the last wave you'll ever ride

Ain't that the truth. Ride them how you like to ride, fast, loose or smooth and stylish. So long as it gives you a grin.

Al G

NSW

7704 posts

6 Aug 2019 1:20pm

Ride them like Obct,very stylish style

surfanimal

NSW

1662 posts

6 Aug 2019 6:17pm

The way that makes you, as an individual, the happiest without worrying about what anyone else thinks.

It's not a team activity and if you derive pleasure from doing it in whatever way you can, not only are you better for it, those around you benefit from it too.

chrispy

9675 posts

7 Aug 2019 4:36am

I think a longboarder should surf like HI and co

How people surf ,i do not give a **** if they are not messing with my time through bad manners and arrogance

Also anyone pointing a go pro at their crotch should be banished from the ocean

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