Last attempt starting to look loads better! One thing I've come to understand is how key the sail arm is in this move. The mast hand should stay punched across with the elbow locked out hard: regardless of powered up or underpowered, that is a constant, and letting that front elbow bend too soon in overpowered ones will mean going into a death shifty thing. The sail hand actually has to adjust based on power and height, which varies by condition and attempts. If you look at what Koester does in an airshaka in Pozo vs a 5.2m Bonaire shaka from Kiri, it's quite different and all comes down to managing the sail's power at the right time. It's a reflex to push on it last minute to save you from going out the front, but when learning it's probably better to try to get attempts somewhere between 3 and 4, and that will happen if you force yourself to not push that sail hand out to stay dry! I've found the cue, "sail low" is really helpful, and imagining the sail hand/arm always in a sort of "pulling the handbrake" position. My shaka rampages are sadly on hold for a bit due to an injury, but the hammering will continue again soon!
It's well known that this movement is slightly more difficult to perform on waterways which are extremely calm as you don't get the additional lift off from a tidal wave or ripple, but it was great to see your demonstrations.
full disclosure, personally I'm yet to do 1! it looks like as you start descending/on landing your vision changes to down or to the nose, rather than continuing to look round. maybe just keep looking no matter what...? full belief! I've noticed that emphasis has help me land flakas again :) loving the content and documenting Will! you've probs landed them already anyway! all the best :)
Hey Will, I enjoy your road shaka sessions as I have also been struggling with it for 3 years now. It is such a complex move. What confuses me the most is where should I throw my bodyweight. Should I just lean towards the nose of the board or should I also make an effort to throw my body from windward to leeward (downwind) side?
Hi Karlo, thanks for watching! The way I'm currently thinking about it is throwing my body directly forward. So far my best efforts are when I've really committed to launching my body super far forward, this way I'm able to get right over the top of the sail. I wouldn't say that there's much side to side movement (windward to leeward) just think directly forward.
@@willnicholls5 Thanks for replying! I have also had success by throwing myself forward (towards the nose), but by doing that sometimes i can't get the sail fully horizontal. I was thinking that when you sheet in, you should kind of let the sail pull you from the windward to the leeward rail (while leaning forward also). It is difficult to explain haha, I guess the only solution is to spend more time on the water.
I do see what you mean and I guess it could work. From what I've been told, the way to get the sail more horizontal is to keep pulling the back hand in and push harder with the front hand. I'm still working on it, so we'll see.
I think you do not put enough weight on your from arm. If you did you would land nose first to finish a 360 flat like end. When it's flat you can't do much more air rotation than you do, just need a better landing to slide with the nose of your board.
Last attempt starting to look loads better! One thing I've come to understand is how key the sail arm is in this move. The mast hand should stay punched across with the elbow locked out hard: regardless of powered up or underpowered, that is a constant, and letting that front elbow bend too soon in overpowered ones will mean going into a death shifty thing. The sail hand actually has to adjust based on power and height, which varies by condition and attempts. If you look at what Koester does in an airshaka in Pozo vs a 5.2m Bonaire shaka from Kiri, it's quite different and all comes down to managing the sail's power at the right time. It's a reflex to push on it last minute to save you from going out the front, but when learning it's probably better to try to get attempts somewhere between 3 and 4, and that will happen if you force yourself to not push that sail hand out to stay dry! I've found the cue, "sail low" is really helpful, and imagining the sail hand/arm always in a sort of "pulling the handbrake" position. My shaka rampages are sadly on hold for a bit due to an injury, but the hammering will continue again soon!
Shame to hear about the injury hope it's a quick recovery. Thanks for all the advice, thats super helpful and makes a lot of sense.
It's well known that this movement is slightly more difficult to perform on waterways which are extremely calm as you don't get the additional lift off from a tidal wave or ripple, but it was great to see your demonstrations.
If you would have done the third one over chop, you would've landed that man!
Thank you for this 5th episode! I have no doubt you will be.
full disclosure, personally I'm yet to do 1! it looks like as you start descending/on landing your vision changes to down or to the nose, rather than continuing to look round. maybe just keep looking no matter what...? full belief! I've noticed that emphasis has help me land flakas again :) loving the content and documenting Will! you've probs landed them already anyway! all the best :)
That's actually a really good point, I'll keep practicing with this in mind. Thanks Paul
V impressive. The freeze frames would make Great wall art!
Hey Will, I enjoy your road shaka sessions as I have also been struggling with it for 3 years now. It is such a complex move. What confuses me the most is where should I throw my bodyweight. Should I just lean towards the nose of the board or should I also make an effort to throw my body from windward to leeward (downwind) side?
Hi Karlo, thanks for watching! The way I'm currently thinking about it is throwing my body directly forward. So far my best efforts are when I've really committed to launching my body super far forward, this way I'm able to get right over the top of the sail. I wouldn't say that there's much side to side movement (windward to leeward) just think directly forward.
@@willnicholls5 Thanks for replying! I have also had success by throwing myself forward (towards the nose), but by doing that sometimes i can't get the sail fully horizontal. I was thinking that when you sheet in, you should kind of let the sail pull you from the windward to the leeward rail (while leaning forward also). It is difficult to explain haha, I guess the only solution is to spend more time on the water.
I do see what you mean and I guess it could work. From what I've been told, the way to get the sail more horizontal is to keep pulling the back hand in and push harder with the front hand. I'm still working on it, so we'll see.
I think you do not put enough weight on your from arm. If you did you would land nose first to finish a 360 flat like end. When it's flat you can't do much more air rotation than you do, just need a better landing to slide with the nose of your board.
Super helpful...thank you!