Really great surfskate tutorial, I like the idea of starting ankles, knees, upper body for beginners. You do a really nice job of breaking it down into learnable parts. My 2 cents as a surfer and skater there's 2-3 things that I think are also important to consider: 1 Functional surf stance that allows the back knee to bend inwards "tucked in" and the front foot at 45 degrees. This allows for more compression in skating from knees and unlock the front hip and trunk rotation with turning. It also reduces squat position when skating or surfing. 2 Where your eyes look and where your chest points you go, so before learning to use arms side to side, it can be useful to cross arms across your chest. This allows people to synchronise ankle, knee and hip compression with trunk rotation to create speed. The focus on how the chest turns this creates rotational force and acceleration which helps with learning to turn also. Lastly, 3 Surfing to generate speed is a more vertical movement up the wave face than side to side twisting. To do this we use more our knees and hips to go from a compressed position, to straighter leg extension to lift up the wave face and then compress back down to drop down and generate speed using the gravitational potential to create kinetic energy. This is where it can better to use a slight slope or incline, later a ramp or bowl more mimics speed generation in surfing. Happy surfskating and surfing everyone 🤙
I appreciate your tutorials. My Carver Black Tip CX is being shipped and I should receive it this Wednesday, November 23, 2022. This 61 year old woman can hardly wait. Used to surf and skateboard.
Some really good tips here. However I will point out that for surfing practice, this only covers the frontside generation of speed. You could reverse everything to practice generating speed on your backside. So rather than heel/down-toe/up, you reverse that so you’re dropping your knees while turning on your toe edge and pressing up to generate drive while you are turning in your heel edge. This is important. Many intermediate surfers struggle with generating speed on their backside because they can’t switch to this motion. The surf skate provides a great opportunity to practice generating speed and drive on your backside, don’t neglect to practice that.
Surfskate love the truth is the natural upper body movements that we develop surf skating naturally, are basically identical to any of the natural upper body movements surfing develops. Surfskate pumping is actually identical to pumping a surfboard, and surfing you use the side to side motion in combination with the face of the wave to propel the surfboard forward.
@@SurfskateLove really Surfskate the only reason the up and down pumping motion is used in surfing is when the wave mushes out and you really no longer have a good face to use a side to side pumping motion to propel so you are forced to use an up and down motion to keep momentum up, until the wave walls up and breaks again. That up and down pump motion as opposed to the side to side pumping motion is known as the Huntington hop in surf circles.
Very informative video :)! I am a surfer, and this video couldn't apply to that, but it''s helping me use my surfskate with more upper body movements, which i struggle with. tysm.
Great video Steve (Olivier here). As i am also surfer (longboarder and longsup), i would say that the upper body motion and rear foot are the closest to real surfing. Front foot surfskate for me is a little less realistic if i consider it as a separate movement. But that said, the more speed you have in surfing, the more front foot versatily you find, surfskate gives that even with no speed, which is a bit confusing at the beginning. I just come back from a pumptrack session, just after some days of real kitesurfing in waves (real Bottom turn and cut back), and if i consider my whole body motion in surfskate, i can say that the body movement is very close. Sometimes, wave resistance on surf rails can miss to surfskate, but using longer wheelbases or not too lose trucks can be a way to feel closer to surfing. The one and only critery for me is after a surfskate session, i feel this specific after session good feeling that's exacly where surfskate is magical for me : opening urban sessions.
This dudes tutorials and video's are the best. Love em. Easy to follow, well put together ! Whats the board hes riding here? I like how smooth it looks
Hi, thanks for your super useful videos, they have been extremely handy as I am a beginner surf skater. The other day after never happening to me before, I went out to surf skate and while I was doing the pushing out motion with the back foot to get propelled suddenly the back truck lost contact with the floor and the boards spin throwing me off it and making me fall, it was so sudden that I didn’t understand what even happened. I got back on and after a bit it happened again and the board kept on sliding not on purpose from the back truck. Any idea what am I doing wrong? Thanks a lot! 🤙🏼🤙🏼
At the moment I prefer to push like a normal skateboard to generate speed, then switch my feet around and pump to keep the speed up. For me pumping alone is just too slow.
Same bro, i have cx style trucks (the new improved ones from decathlon) roads here are not nearly as smooth as video rel tho. Did u improve tho? I wanna know if its just me who is out of shape
Am I weird or does it, when you've got everything flowing nice going for max acceleration, kind of feel like you're spring boarding back and forth? I kind of wonder sometimes if I'm loosing efficiency by not fully committing to carving a full follow through, but it seems much faster subjectively. Anyone have any thoughts on that?
Surfing to generate speed is a more vertical movement up the wave face than side to side twisting. Do this we use more our knees and hips to go from a compressed position, to straighter leg extension to lift up the wave face and then compress back down to drop down😂
