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Kyle Teeter - 5 years ago

Right here on the surfboard is just right. In front of the kick pad I put on the board specifically for my back foot. Proper stance, my back foot should be in front of the thing meant for my back foot. Not on it.

Maty ocean earth - 5 years ago

classes with a kook !!

Colleen Kelly - 5 years ago

Not to be mean - but "feet hanging over the edge"...you haven't taught a lot of Asian tourists on big foam boards have you now?

Riftborn - 5 years ago

Says "not to be mean" inbefore being racist. Not all asians are tiny, not all black and white people are tall. And almost all big foam boards/longboards tend to have their feet ON the board. In the video a medium sized board, probobly 7'2 is used, and very few people except kids can have their feet on the board then

Isa Bragantini - 5 years ago

Man, I'm traveling to AUS and hopefully I'll learn how to surf (:
Thanks for the video!

How to Rip - 5 years ago

You should come to our surf retreat !

Brian Worthington - 5 years ago

Hola from Lima, Perú. A well designed and presented video. Great job.

Amy Turner - 5 years ago

Hi from New Zealand , I just had a few days in Dunedin surfing it was great , my friend teaches surfing , I'm a beginner and this video helps, thanks

Tim Johnson - 5 years ago

You had me... until the dubstep

pacific islander - 5 years ago

I love it from philippines

Rick Ochet - 5 years ago

Awesome tips! These are going to help heaps!

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Sam Bott - 5 years ago

What’s the point in having the pad on the back?

Riftborn - 5 years ago

+Sam Bott yes, thats exactly what it is for. The further back on the board your weigth is, the steeper the wave needs to be for you to be able to surf it

Sam Bott - 5 years ago

+How to Ripthanks for the reply! but is it mainly for bigger waves because on smaller waves standing on it has pulled me off the back of the wave?

How to Rip - 5 years ago

Extra traction for the back foot which controls most of the manoeuvring

Tom Ryan - 5 years ago

Did you guys go to Parsons a few days ago?

Ryan Richards - 5 years ago

Because of you I might try surfing! Thanks bro! Also I like snow boarding.
What kind of board do you have? If I’m going to get a surfboard I don’t want to spend a lot of money but I don’t want a poorly made one either......

How to Rip - 5 years ago

It’s a balance. You normally get what you pay for

cyberanswer - 6 years ago

Tail pad is too far forward. Paddling should be over a barrow in an S shape, with reach not great, sweeping under the board then flicking outward, paddling deep, head still, body rocking slightly to extend the stroke nothing as exaggerated as swimming. Watch Kelly Slater, he doesn't paddle like you're suggesting. Weight should be on the front leg. If you have your weight on the back leg where you've positioned, it will bend the nose up causing a break. Take off must be at an angle on small waves otherwise you'll get to the bottom & the wave will break down the line without you

Maxmillan Mus - 6 years ago

Very useful vid

Chad Atkinson - 6 years ago

These videos are great. Focusing on good technique is a foundation for continued growth and improvement
Plenty for me to work on!

How to Rip - 6 years ago

Yeah pikachu

Lemorecn wetsuit - 6 years ago

great video for surf beginner

Connor Pearson - 6 years ago

Your back foot better get back to the pad if you want to turn tho

Glenn Turner - 6 years ago

I surfed all the time as a teenager but life and it's obligations take a lot of us away from our passions and getting back into it has been difficult. You showed me a couple of things I have been doing wrong like not lifting my chest up when taking off. Have been taking off push up style and that does not work at all!!!:))) Thanks.

tomgibson _1 - 6 years ago

How long is your board?

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Leo McNicholas - 6 years ago

Why is it you are using your feet in the pop up? When in the water you wont be able to use them as they will be hanging off the end.

Leo McNicholas - 6 years ago

+How to Rip yes but this is therefore incorrect technique. You should be showing new surfers exactly how to do it when in the water.

How to Rip - 6 years ago

Because I’m demonstrating on the beach

J C - 6 years ago

Are you pushing off the sand when you jump up? Any advice for how to jump up off your knees?

Riftborn - 5 years ago

Jumping up is difficult and advanced. Id reccomend doing what he does first by pushing his chest up. Then moving your back foot up above your front knee (which should still be lying straigth) and then moving your front foot up, and standing up

PowerOf One - 6 years ago

Good advice. Thanx

WaterBucket - 6 years ago

what board is this in the video?

Petrice Larson - 6 years ago

Why is the tail pad so far up off the tail?

Riftborn - 5 years ago

Because its not a shortboard. According to my unproffesional estimate its something between 6'8-7'4

KOSTAS GOULAS - 6 years ago

This guy don't know surfing for sure

How to Rip - 6 years ago

Okay Kostas

jomie orbino - 6 years ago

Easy way to surf fast just get a long board and get those 3 foot shit!!!i had to learn everything all by my self

Koby Pennell - 6 years ago

Nice video helped me a lot

roaming gnome - 6 years ago

It’s been proven that holding your fingers slightly apart (not cupped) is more efficient and advising new surfers to paddle with long strokes is absolutely against what they should be doing. This causes them to reach and with that reach, they fail to arch their backs and use their lats - this burns out the shoulder muscles which are a lot smaller, weaker and are easily injured.

Thelostprojects - 5 years ago

The arch in your back is effected by the erector spinae lower back muscles
The lat is activated from the hyper extension of the shoulder joint.
However your point about shoulder fatigue may be true.

Ryan The Rock - 6 years ago

I have been shortboarding for a few years...im 6'4 and when i popup my back foot,im natural,lands in front of the tailpad instead of on the pad...this makes turns difficult...i can move my foot back onto the pad after pop up but its difficult...would be nice to pupup with my foot on the tailpad...any ideas?

Riftborn - 5 years ago

If you have been shortboarding for years i dont understand how you manage to surf with your back foot in front of your tailpad when you are taller than a lot of shortboards. You have surfed for so long that you just need to experiment if you have years if experience. Find out what works

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Ruby Henaway - 6 years ago

Hi there, my board is 8'1, where should I hang my feet and roughly what tips should I consider? Thanks!

Ruby Henaway - 6 years ago

thank you very much! it certainly helps

xyzct - 6 years ago

Ruby, his rule of thumb about feet hanging off the end is kind of useless. Lay on your board in the water and adjust your forward/aft position so that the tip of your board is just an inch or two above the water surface. Very slight differences in position can really affect this. If you are too far forward, the nose will dive under as you paddle. If you are too far back, you'll be plowing through the water, and will never catch a wave. Most beginners lay too far back, so the tip is too high out of the water. Hope that helps.

Riftborn - 5 years ago

You need to experiment with your position on the board. If you fall down and go into the washing machine you nosedive because you are too far forward. So you need to be further back. Go too far back however and you wont be able to catch the wave at all

ForestSakan - 6 years ago

Why doeshe speak so weird?

Zac Blechman - 6 years ago

Hey Chris, you mention having your feet just hang off the board; however, I am 5'7 and ride a 5'2. Any suggestions on positioning? Thanks!

How to Rip - 6 years ago

Focus on what the front of the board is doing as long as it’s just trimming above the water you’re sweet

Edwin Alberto Arias Martinez - 6 years ago

That wetsuit its fire

ForestSakan - 6 years ago

And u r gay

AmplifiedGaming - 6 years ago

Thanks man yeww

Maria Edwards - 6 years ago

Feet hanging off the board works well for shortboards but I could see where somebody new is hanging off the back off a 10'2 wondering why the waves keep passing.

R - 5 years ago

I ride a 9'5" and my toes are right about where the leash attaches to the board.

aminor1950 - 5 years ago

Who the heck is riding a 10' 2"?!

Sam Bott - 5 years ago

+Ruby Henaway probably have your toes on the very edge of the board, it will also make it easier to stand up on

Ruby Henaway - 6 years ago

do you reckon you could hang your feet off an 8'1 and still catch waves? or should be more positioned in the centre of the board?

Chris Lewsadder - 6 years ago

I used to be a very good surfer, but had knee surgery and gave up on trying to stick it. I watched your videos and went out for another shot. Finally! I can catch waves again. Thank you guys for refreshing the basics for me!

Lochlan Hughes - 5 years ago

Just getting into it and going to get knee surgury soon and I'm so devasted. How long until you could surf again?

How to Rip - 6 years ago

That’s so awesome Chris!!!

Rod Hoover - 6 years ago

Great teaching. Thank you!

Abigail Maki - 6 years ago

I really appreciate you guys thank u!!

How to Rip - 6 years ago

We appreciate you!

Stanislav Mishenin - 6 years ago

Love your videos guys! Still don't understand, when wave pushes me, the nose of the board goes down. even tho im at the very edge. May be I should stand up earlier. thank you for videos!

cyberanswer - 6 years ago

It depends on the board. If you're on one of those super long, flat foam things you'll need to be WAY further back or done modern, hybrid fish are like that too. If you're catching white water you'll need to be at the back or a long way back no matter which board you use. You also need to paddle hard to equal the wave speed. This speed will reduce how far back you have to be if you're catching white water as the impact on you won't be as great.

Johnsenptonsen - 6 years ago

If you're perfectly centered on your board and the wave isn't too steep for you, but you're still nosediving then try arching your back as much as you can. Same thing when the wave isn't pushing you, you lean forward and lower your head. If you try this, but still nosedive, maybe try standing up a little sooner.

Ryan Park - 6 years ago

U might be too far forward on your board

Lara LandX - 6 years ago

nice helpful vid! just would like to add.... this is applicable for short boards, not quite the thing for a long board...

Cookie - 6 years ago

i swear he said how to root

How to Rip - 6 years ago

He wouldn’t know

Daniel Sanchez - 6 years ago

Is this recorded on a green screen?

lestliness - 6 years ago

Why would they go through all the trouble of putting sand down in a studio and keying green screens?

nisha Thais - 6 years ago

What type of board is used in this video?

Ňøtøriü - 5 years ago

Don't listen to them it's a shortboard probably 5'11-6'4

Angelina Miller - 6 years ago

A gun surfboard

Prep Has Fallen - 6 years ago

surf*board

Grant - 6 years ago

Depends where the find are

Maria Edwards - 6 years ago

I agree its not unless the board was for bigger waves. That said the board is obviously wide enough to surf small to midsize days most often which is why its not back further :)

How to Rip - 6 years ago

Hmmmm nah

Shane James McCann - 6 years ago

Thanks now I know!

Dingo Capo - 6 years ago

if u need this video your a kook , and best advice for a kook if u cant surf dont start

BT Harrison - 6 years ago

Dingo your a douchebag man

Dedelef Prins - 6 years ago

Everyone is a kook now and then!

Panda - 6 years ago

''Bingo, Pooped on a Kook, named, Dingo Ball's''

ForestSakan - 6 years ago

Retarded user name=worthless opinion

HispaWispa • - 6 years ago

Fuck off. When you started (if u even surf) then you were a kook. Such a beautiful sport ruined by a bunch of toxic dickheads being selfish.

Henri Du Plessis - 6 years ago

I guess you were born knowing how to surf, oh special one. I bow to your superiority. Not. Go push your head up where the sun don't shine and keep it there.

Maria Edwards - 6 years ago

I had a guy in the late 90's ask me if I was a kook when I walked into a surf store and I said sarcastically yeah I like to cook all the time.

Maria Edwards - 6 years ago

So you never started surfing and just knew it all right away? On top of that I look at these vids because maybe there is something I need a refresher on, or some very slight technique I can gain. I have been teaching people and have learned a couple of ways its easier to teach, I did it already but didn't know how to describe it to somebody else. Try not to be so simpleminded.

Parman Mashanafi - 6 years ago

shut up kook! you kooky kook!

Ami Boxall - 6 years ago

But then there would be no surfers. Everyone stared at a kook your not born a pro surfer it takes practice and skill

il Merc - 6 years ago

Ahahah where i live "capo" means dickhead!

Mason Madison - 6 years ago

Dingo Capo anyone that uses the word kook is a kook

How to Rip - 6 years ago

precisely.

Jaqos - 6 years ago

Dingo Capo Your obviously a kook if your watching this video. And everyone literally everyone had to start here at some part in their life including the legends and pros like kelly slater, John John Florence, Gabriel Medina, Jamie O’Brien... etc! So how about you shut the fuck up

Nico Link - 6 years ago

hey dingo master of the universe what a cool guy you are with such a clever and bright remark. Not frustrated at all I would say!

How to Rip - 6 years ago

How about you be quiet there dingo ... there’s a good boy

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Caden Taylor - 6 years ago

Great video! I have to say that I see a lot of people missing the wave because they don’t take the extra two paddle strokes, that’s another important mistake to fix.

How to Rip - 6 years ago

Good point Caden!

Noah Strange - 6 years ago

Yo Guys love your videos they help me out a lot! I have a question, have you guys ever watched Blue Water High?

Chris Jenko - 6 years ago

haha

Noah Strange - 6 years ago

How to Rip what do you mean?

How to Rip - 6 years ago

No. This show makes you not rip

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