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by **isaluteyou** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:42 pm

dont worry about having a hard time out there so would i have those waves sucked big style :lol:

not much you can do in wind blown mush that has almost no size :lol:

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by **surferdude_scarborough** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:47 pm

yeah the best advice i can give based on that clip is to go find some waves.

by **Milo** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:53 pm

You are doing fine Tremor, stick with it. When the wave picks you up give a couple more strokes it might help and try moving forward on your board an inch or so. Just a thought :wink:

. Keep the vids coming, it`s great to see how you progress :thumbs:

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by **TReMoR** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:45 pm

Milo wrote:You are doing fine Tremor, stick with it. When the wave picks you up give a couple more strokes it might help and try moving forward on your board an inch or so. Just a thought . Keep the vids coming, it`s great to see how you progress .

thank you
ill try that out.. everyone's advice is extremely helpful and i try to keep it on my mind when im out there.

by **Sillysausage** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:23 pm

yea waves look difficult to surf on any board. small closeouts. maybe try sitting a little further out and paddling in a little earlier. keep up the good work

by **Rico** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:09 pm

yeah mate theres no chance, even if you catch one of them, the ride would be just over.

6'7'' is a cool size, but not for these conditions.

by **garbarrage** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:06 am

definitely improving... waves suck tho!

one thing i notice is that you look back a lot when the wave is approaching.. used to do it myself until someone pointed it out... stopped doing it and noticed an immediate improvement... was sort of slowing me down as i was losing power in those last few crucial strokes..

by **Thibb** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:18 am

Tragic leash snapping scene! It brought tears to my eyes, I lost one in comparable circumstances...

by **TReMoR** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:26 am

Thibb wrote:Tragic leash snapping scene! It brought tears to my eyes, I lost one in comparable circumstances...

i was so surprised. that leash was supposed to hold up to 10 feet! :evil:

it was like 2 feet at most?

by **drowningbitbybit** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:52 am

Hey, you're doing fine

Its all there - and you can see that you've improved since your last video. All you need now is to keep on doing it, and tweak and fine-tune.

The board/waves combination is definitely the biggest problem here.

And you can see that you're paddling into backwash - you'll never get anywhere paddling against water flowing off the beach, and the waves that size will just collapse and die too (as you probably noticed...) :wink:

Time to try another break perhaps?

by **TReMoR** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:19 am

drowningbitbybit wrote:Hey, you're doing fine

Its all there - and you can see that you've improved since your last video. All you need now is to keep on doing it, and tweak and fine-tune.

The board/waves combination is definitely the biggest problem here.

And you can see that you're paddling into backwash - you'll never get anywhere paddling against water flowing off the beach, and the waves that size will just collapse and die too (as you probably noticed...)

Time to try another break perhaps?

eh.. i think i just chose a particualry bad day to go there. I usually see much better waves at hermosa

bad timing to bring a camera.. haha so my cousin and i took 20 min to record each other then we put the camera in his car and went back in the water

by **pkbum** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:19 am

find some waist to chest high places it'll be a better place to practice.

keep the stoke up

by **BoarderDave** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:49 pm

Yeah, hopefully you get a better wave setup for the next round of video. hehe. No worries..

I'll have to see if I can make it out to wherever you are surfing some morning.

Does your cousin surf too or bodyboard? Either way, we'll all have to meet up out there sometime soon.

by **Real Pol** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:27 pm

You seemed to throw all your weight forward on the duck dive. Remember you're trying to sink the board which includes the tail. So you should have a foot/knee on the back doing this as well as pushing the nose under.
(numerous threads on duck diving).

Keep it up!!

by **TReMoR** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:42 pm

BoarderDave wrote:Yeah, hopefully you get a better wave setup for the next round of video. hehe. No worries..

I'll have to see if I can make it out to wherever you are surfing some morning. Does your cousin surf too or bodyboard? Either way, we'll all have to meet up out there sometime soon.

haha yup! my cousin surfs .. he is worse than me though.. haha.. because i started before me but then he snapped his board so then he stopped and now he started again

by **TReMoR** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 2:02 am

a new vid from today.. right as my friend took that the batteries ran out.. haha and then he got pissed at me because i never took a video of him.. haha

i cant believe it ran out after 1 clip though... shoulda replaced the batteries

by **surferdude_scarborough** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:43 am

looking better but it looks like your weight is a little too far back on take off. as you look at it you can see the nose jump up as you're popping up. it should stay relatively level as you get up.

by **isaluteyou** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:17 pm

your too far back on takeoff and judging by the wave you should have gone right not left :wink:

by **TReMoR** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:26 pm

isaluteyou wrote:your too far back on takeoff and judging by the wave you should have gone right not left

yeaaaa i shoulda gone right but then i usually prefer left since im goofy

by **uglystick** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:12 am

you were never really on that wave, you needed a couple more stokes before you stood up.

keep up the hard work, persistance is what pays off.

btw its still a short board even though it is a 6'7. Look at the nose and tail, both are thin and narrower. Makes it harder to learn.

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