It's 100% the one thing that's driven the biggest change in my surfing over past few months! Its rare these days I find a new approach that changes things so significantly, has helped my turns go from too much push and feeling sticky to faster and more dynamic, stoked!!!
This one really connects for me thanks Ben. Good point on the value of mixing up equipment with purpose too. I just came back to a concave entry pintail with edge after riding a big, heavy, rolled bottom, rounded square tail and loving how big those turns can be with minimal effort in comparison.
Yeah such a good point hey! I love the feeling of getting used to one board and then riding something fairly opposite. I find going from something heavy to light you really appreciate how easy the turning is and you don't overpush things, then when going from light to heavy I find you're more likely to just be patient with the board and let the board run its line rather than trying to force it, such a cool contrast! Yewww 🙏🙏🤙🤙
Amazing turns, especially since those single-fin boards are not always helping you maintain the speed through the turns. Which brings a question: how to be lightfooted on a tri-fin lonngboard wich rewards back foot pressure a lot more than a single-fin?
Great question. I started longboarding during the "performance era" (on a 2+1). ...to get my style in line with traditional longboarding, I sold all the shortboards, and 2+1s. Still fight the habit of to much back foot weight!
yeah great question, and you're absolutely right! Fortunately those boards will be a lot more responsive and the sharp rail at the tail helps to produce speed with the carve more so also, so you can be a bit more heavy footed I suppose and still have the board respond a bit better/there won't be as much heavy stalling in comparison if the pressure is too hard on the tail. The similar principals apply though, if you can focus more on optimising pressure onto the rail and placement of the back foot close enough to the tail then the majority of the work can be done without having to muscle through the turn excessively. I think a real consideration with all of this as well is making sure you're in a critical point on the wave, where we really get caught with over powering a turn is on the slower parts of the wave haha
Thanks for the video Ben. Very informative and the ballance of power, precision and flow is a great way to look at it. I have also been working on relaxing more and focusing on the wave to increase time in the critical sections. This vid will help with this.
Exactly right its all about the balance, definitelt doesn't always need to be rushed, pushing too hard and go go go haha Epic, sounds great definitely a good approach to be taking!
Agree about not having to turn super hard on say cutbacks. For me it's more of a timing thing when you want to slow down, and get into pocket again. You do have to step back on the tail for a quicker turn, and sometimes lean weight into the turn, N then transfer the weight forward to catch up if wave loses power.. A vid id like to see is maybe ways of hitting the lip. not sure why i have not been doin that technique as much in recent yrs. But it sure looks cool to even do it on a close out 😂 Btw i love your vids!
Definitely super fair - I love good powerful surfing as well, I think a lot of the time I was finding I was trying to push harder in sloppy sections and the turn just wouldn’t eventuate into anything which was my problem.. get yourself dialled into a nice fast critical section though and 🔥🔥🔥
@@BenConsidine I surf about as good as a kook can and still be called a kook...I get a pro level turn in every now and then, then relapse into being a kook.
Not necessarily! The best things I'm looking for for someone starting out is a board that has wide point set in the middle and a little bit of rocker to it - this will just provide as much stability as we need for reducing errors and getting comfortable across many aspects of longboarding such as the turning as well as cross stepping + noserding, so its more to do with shape than it being epoxy - hope that somewhat helps!!!
Thank you Ben.
Your ideas on what to focus are always an inspiration.
The 60% rule. That's gold.
It's 100% the one thing that's driven the biggest change in my surfing over past few months! Its rare these days I find a new approach that changes things so significantly, has helped my turns go from too much push and feeling sticky to faster and more dynamic, stoked!!!
This one really connects for me thanks Ben. Good point on the value of mixing up equipment with purpose too. I just came back to a concave entry pintail with edge after riding a big, heavy, rolled bottom, rounded square tail and loving how big those turns can be with minimal effort in comparison.
Yeah such a good point hey! I love the feeling of getting used to one board and then riding something fairly opposite. I find going from something heavy to light you really appreciate how easy the turning is and you don't overpush things, then when going from light to heavy I find you're more likely to just be patient with the board and let the board run its line rather than trying to force it, such a cool contrast! Yewww 🙏🙏🤙🤙
Amazing turns, especially since those single-fin boards are not always helping you maintain the speed through the turns. Which brings a question: how to be lightfooted on a tri-fin lonngboard wich rewards back foot pressure a lot more than a single-fin?
Great question. I started longboarding during the "performance era" (on a 2+1). ...to get my style in line with traditional longboarding, I sold all the shortboards, and 2+1s. Still fight the habit of to much back foot weight!
yeah great question, and you're absolutely right! Fortunately those boards will be a lot more responsive and the sharp rail at the tail helps to produce speed with the carve more so also, so you can be a bit more heavy footed I suppose and still have the board respond a bit better/there won't be as much heavy stalling in comparison if the pressure is too hard on the tail. The similar principals apply though, if you can focus more on optimising pressure onto the rail and placement of the back foot close enough to the tail then the majority of the work can be done without having to muscle through the turn excessively. I think a real consideration with all of this as well is making sure you're in a critical point on the wave, where we really get caught with over powering a turn is on the slower parts of the wave haha
Thanks for the video Ben. Very informative and the ballance of power, precision and flow is a great way to look at it.
I have also been working on relaxing more and focusing on the wave to increase time in the critical sections. This vid will help with this.
Exactly right its all about the balance, definitelt doesn't always need to be rushed, pushing too hard and go go go haha
Epic, sounds great definitely a good approach to be taking!
That’s such a good lesson 😊 thank s for sharing
No worries at all John! Stoked you found it helpful !!
Great video ben!!
Cheers Jason! Appreciate it!
Super interesting perspective! Thanks for the advice! 🤙
No worries at all, enjoyed making the vid, hope it was helpful!!! 🤙🙏
@@BenConsidine yes thank you!
Thank you!
No worries at all!! I hope it was somewhat helpful :) 🤙🙏
Agree about not having to turn super hard on say cutbacks. For me it's more of a timing thing when you want to slow down, and get into pocket again. You do have to step back on the tail for a quicker turn, and sometimes lean weight into the turn, N then transfer the weight forward to catch up if wave loses power..
A vid id like to see is maybe ways of hitting the lip. not sure why i have not been doin that technique as much in recent yrs. But it sure looks cool to even do it on a close out 😂
Btw i love your vids!
I have always liked aggressive surfing over tip toeing through the tulips.
Definitely super fair - I love good powerful surfing as well, I think a lot of the time I was finding I was trying to push harder in sloppy sections and the turn just wouldn’t eventuate into anything which was my problem.. get yourself dialled into a nice fast critical section though and 🔥🔥🔥
@@BenConsidine I surf about as good as a kook can and still be called a kook...I get a pro level turn in every now and then, then relapse into being a kook.
i recently starting longboard with the hopes of nose riding but got myself an epoxy board, 9'8 ..... was that a mistake?
Not necessarily! The best things I'm looking for for someone starting out is a board that has wide point set in the middle and a little bit of rocker to it - this will just provide as much stability as we need for reducing errors and getting comfortable across many aspects of longboarding such as the turning as well as cross stepping + noserding, so its more to do with shape than it being epoxy - hope that somewhat helps!!!
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Yewww 🤙🤙