Surf Tip "Power Surfing" Introduction Ep 1
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2023
- In this episode, Noel Salas talks about how to engage your rail to increase power in your turns. Many surfers are getting a lot better with various tutorials. You may have proper body mechanics and technique, but how do you get the board to squirt with speed going down the line? This is one of Noel's most frequently asked questions. Engaging the surfboard rail will increase resistance and allow you to push, which will ultimately lead to gaining speed and power surfing. Noel also explains what surfboard and fins attributes he likes that will help create speed. Extending through your bottom turn with the rail engaged will also increase speed. Accurate foot position, proper weight distribution, and practical application are also a factor. Noel leads you through some surfskate exercises on his Slide surfskate to help you on your road to increasing speed. Look forward to even more episodes on this important topic.
Enjoy!!
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Too much to think about for newbies these days. In the old days, we just had surf heroes with amp music and watched on video over and over and just tried to copy them in the surf which also seemed to work well. 👌
It's like if you watch gymnastics, and you see how they weight and unweight. If you know how to be light on your feet and when to put pressure on the board going down the line,is where I see a lot of surfers have trouble with. You have to know when to put pressure and when to unweight the pressure. It's all about the bottom turn.
Hey Noel long time fan keep up the great work.
I thought I should let you know that you might be causing confusion with your audience when talking about weight distribution. Weight and pressure application during surfing can be mistaken by someone that is not experienced. As an example when you execute a front side tail slide off the lip your weight is almost entirely over the front foot but the pressure you are applying to the board is pushing on the tail. Or on a less technical manoeuvre such as a bottom turn your weight is forward and leaning on the rail and you are driving off the back foot with pressure. Maybe you could clear up this confusion with the audiences.
great tips as usual! 👏👏👏
My experience is that when the board and fins are tuned for the wave type you can feel the acceleration through the turn the harder you push unlike for instance a board that sits too much on top of the water or fins that are too small or played which gives more of a skiddy, sliding feel which detracts from pushing too hard.
Using a quad helps as well. There can be some downsides like less pivot and rotational control, but if you want power and speed quads have that advantage over thrusters.
Yeah I totally agree, you can really push hard off a bottom turn.
Yes the pivot is less from a quad compared to a thruster but I wouldn’t say it’s a huge amount,
I do notice it but I love the amount of force I can put on the rail during a down carve.
I also love how much it can slide from time to time also before getting back on rail.
Love my quad set up.
Also probably something you may have felt post hip surgery is later in the day you felt fatigue in glutes and quads your more than likely been engaging things properly . Because what i feel one of the biggest difference between a surfskate and surfing is you need to be lower and extend surfing than on land ???? Great video
Great Video! You should make a tips video on doing 360's.
ok, that savage layback at 4:12 justified the wetsuit color
It’s pretty simple. If your a mortal, get a good board, dial in the fin, surf everyday rain or shine and catch at least 20 waves a session. A dialed-in board makes surfing enjoyable and surfing everyday gives you the reps. Probably see results in 6 months.
Many surfers have surfed most of their lives and struggle at getting better. Surfing everyday helps a lot but surfing with proper technique and understanding offers exponential growth
That cutback at 9:54 created a whole new surf spot. Proper gouge.
My favourite thing surfing is to stand up with my feet all over the show. I generally get them in to position for the pull out though. My pull outs are great.
Thats GOLD , funny @anon.
yeah its next level! and just on some average section, its like his body mechanics just created all the speed
As for surfskate training: A lot of people just wiggle off their front foot, which adds nothing for real surfing. Good you told surfers to use backfoot more, making it a REAL training aid for surfing. To enhance the effect you can also tighten the back truck bushings, making it harder to set rail without putting properly weight on back foot. Even up to a point when you have too much front foot load that at back truck one wheel comes off of the ground. Good work, as usual.
Maybe grab your favorite drink then sit back and enjoy the episode.
Hard to grab my favorite drink after I sit back.
Love your videos.
As I’ve been trying to learn turns, I’ve found it hard to know when to unweight the board and when to push into the board. Great video!
In general but not always you want to unweight on the way up and weight on the way down. This will encourage speed and flow.
your back foot drives the turn you unweight right ebfore going into any change of direction no matter how small the movement is , even accelarating
Dope intro!
Controversially I found that by wearing the bejesus out of my back wheels until they slid out unless I put tons of pressure through them, I figured out how to put more load through my back leg
Great video as usual. Could you elaborate a bit how do you prevent from doing a "wiggle" with the front leg (which is partially done on a surfskate) and keep the board going up and down, rail to rail?
Okay… great content idea. Hang tight
Gold bro gold
Best way to consistently learn to feel the traction is to learn how to carve a snowboard. On a skateboard you just cant hold an edge/rail as long as on a snow-/surfboard. Theres not as much lean, theres not enough G forces at play (except maybe in the bowl). And on a surfboard theres not enough consistency in the practice.
After learning a good snowboard carve my cutbacks went from simply redirecting the board to putting it on rail throwing spray and coming out with speed.
I like the idea of learning to hold the edge on a snowboard too.
Hey Noel, great work you’re doing there, enjoying every video of yours!
Do you know when you’ll release the red tiger review video yet?
I’m driving to California soon and I’m not sure if I should buy the inferno 72 or the red tiger as a daily driver for waves up to head high. I bought the inferno FT before I headed down to Mexico, but it feels to tracky/sticky in smaller wave turns and weaker waves in general. If highly appreciate your thoughts on that 😊🙌🏻🙌🏻
Red Tiger review will drop in 2-4 weeks
Hello, are you going to test some Aloha Surfboards? I wonder what would be your oppinion on Serum and Twin D models. Also New Fish and Black Panda look interesting!
Not… no requests for those boards. You are the first
Thanks!
This is so helpful. Question, do you prefer shortboards with wide point in center, forward or backhalf?
@@FluffyAlpaca81 I prefer the wide point behind center or at center.
Hey Noel, big fan of the show. I have a question for you- Sometimes it helps me to think of what is "not rail engagement". For example, if I try a bottom turn and I end up spilling off the board, does that mean my rail was most likely not engaged? (Surfing a 5'6" twin for reference).
Twin Fin boards can be tricky without the fins. Bottom line though…. If you have solid rail engagement with proper technique then you will be able to push off the bottom and do what you want at the top of the wave
How would you define 'power surfing'?
Legend
My ultralight design is the future of surf skating. All of these boards are slugs. Planting this seed with the Windandsea crew. Stay Tuned.
70,back.
30 front
how long until the red tiger review will be out... i go to the mentawis in 3 weeks and im considering getting one for the trip
Maybe be 3-4 weeks. The SharpEye Twin Turbo is next
@@surfnshowreviews7777 can you give me a real basic thoughts of the red tiger. Do you think it will work in indo or is it ment for worse waves?
This guy surfs better than 99.9% of surfers and somehow there are still a bunch of people commenting their 2c on HIS tutorial? Sit on those twitchy fingers and just listen to the guy who can prove he knows what he’s doing.
Cheers
Noel, I recently got a brand new SKX for a steal. I saw your review a few years ago.
Board= 5’7” SKX 24.7L
Me= 145ish and 5’10”, intermediate skill level
Question: I am going to be surfing this board in open faced right hand points. 4-6 range mostly. I just got a set of Mick fanning large FCS2 fins. I was going to use these as the side fins and get a small(grom) or medium sized middle fin that is more upright to have the best of both worlds.
Does this sound right? Would you recommend a specific fins set up? The board is only a thruster (not 5 fin).
Thanks for all your knowledge!!
Go with a medium center fin to loosen up the Mick side fins
@@surfnshowreviews7777 awesome. I just rewatched your SKX review and saw you recommend a more upright fin as the board wants to draw out turns more.
Would you say I can get away with more upright side fins as well? I am only 145lbs so maybe the mick fannings have to much rake?
@@iane7669 Yes… get the Reactors or Performers in size Medium
@@surfnshowreviews7777 you rock! 🤘
Hi Noel!
I was riding a smoothstar, thinking about buying a slide gussie spoon, is it worth?
Absolutely… they ride completely different
@@surfnshowreviews7777 Thanks Noel! I will give you feedback asap.
Abraços from Portugal.
Noel, review-surf the Synthetic '84 by Patterson, if you haven't already. It's a goody.
They don’t send in boards for review. Sorry I tried
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