How To Body Surf With Keith Malloy - Surf Sufficient 749 24

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http://www.korduroy.tv Episode 63 One of surfing's biggest influencers, Mark Cunningham, explains that the keys to body surfing are "know how to swim, have a suit that is going to stay on, kick like hell, and come out of the water smiling..." It's that easy, right?! In this episode of Surf Sufficient, another one of body surfing's finest ambassadors, Keith Malloy, gives his take on body surfing's various communities, how to maximize surface tension and planing as well as some tipson how you might approach your next session sans surfboard. For more, check out http://www.torpedopeople.com,http://www. torpedopeople.tumblr.com/ or follow them on Instagram @thetorpedopeople Host Keith Malloy Producer Cyrus Sutton Camera Many People Edit James Campbell ©2013 korduroy.tv

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Nelson Vc - 7 years ago

Very nice, thanks! Any tips on hot to avoid wipeouts? And how to perform a clean cut-out? Cheers

Alain B - 7 years ago

Do you often keep kicking whilst on the wave or you try to just slide as much as possible ?
I feel sometimes I do have to keep kicking, maybe to bad weight distribution or low angle of the "soft wave"

Any tips ?

lanilou - 7 years ago

https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Secrets-Of-A-Kahuna-Bodysurfer1

TheTurbster - 7 years ago

Old style bodysurfing, or outrigger style, didn't use an arms forward planing hand at all. You keep the inboard arm back by your side, perhaps bending at the elbow to plane inside the wave, and the outboard arm can be back by your side or down on the face of the wave. You can make more speed using the outrigger, while a layback is a stall move that gets you higher on the face.

Kale P - 8 years ago

I'm trying to bodysurf but have trouble with the takeoff. Instead of traveling down the face of the wave, it picks me up sideways and slams me down forward like a piece of wood. I don't know how to start off. I can ride straight in for a second or so but have to roll out of it as it always slams me into the sand.

Any tips?

Cube930 - 6 years ago

Kick faster and get to hydroplaning earlier or you will be swept up. Also maybe try to go at an angle

TheTurbster - 7 years ago

A handplane is not necessary. In fact, at my break they are not allowed and it's one of the best BS waves on the planet. Kale, you need to find a break that peels, not just dump.

Bobson Dugnutt - 7 years ago

look for the corner or shoulder of the wave, swim as fast as you can, and wear fins. also be patient, you don't have to catch every wave that comes your way. go for the ones that catch your eye and commit.

Matheus Castro - 7 years ago

are you using Fins? and how about a handplane? both of this accessories are a must , because they help a lot ... even though bodysurfing can be done without them

Conor Sheridan - 7 years ago

Kale P shorebreak? I bodysurf wedge a lot and whenever I go at cyllies since it's so steep that happens time too

Kale P - 7 years ago

J-R BODYSURFING damnit! I knew it.

J-R BODYSURFING - 7 years ago

Na bro your just shit

Robert H Gordon Jr - 8 years ago

what tune is this?

Zak Hensche - 8 years ago

what fins do you use

tryptala - 7 years ago

Hard blade Voit Ducks. All the rest have too much drag.

YachtAid Global - Captain Mark Drewelow - 7 years ago

Leblon Fins are the best @leblonfins www.leblonfins.com

Zak Hensche - 7 years ago

ok thanks

Team Dare2Drop - 7 years ago

Zak Hensche I use Vipers i recommend the V7 of V5s

Cesar Bedoya - 8 years ago

DaFin fins.... that are the best fins for bodysurfing

youcan'tfixstupid - 8 years ago

any tips on bailing out? I usually get barrelled but then I get sucked over the falls and slammed and its very difficult to shoulder out the back? I'm thinking my body is too much out of the water so I keep tumbling.. Still fun as hell. Tips would be appreciated.

Alphonse Faure - 7 years ago

The question was about methods to bail out.
You claim that nobody else can answer the question then proceed to advise not to engage in the technique at all.

Do I need to point out that you were also unable to answer the question?

Alphonse Faure - 7 years ago

EricJamaica so just ride it until your face grinds off on the rocks?

You're seriously advising people not to learn skills?

Mike Lewis - 8 years ago

Push your planing hand down to the bottom and follow with your head. The wave will break over you and you swim out the back.

AfricaBrooklynItaly - 8 years ago

keep your arms straight out and if u can wear a swim suit to protect u from cuts when u fall and tumble

TWISTEDRIFTER - 8 years ago

swim fins give me grief its hard to find a pair that dont but ill keep looking

tryptala - 7 years ago

Voit Ducks

TWISTEDRIFTER - 8 years ago

i havent yet either thanks for the replies.

William Seifert - 8 years ago

oh. ok. Those are my favorite and i have never had any problems with them.

TWISTEDRIFTER - 8 years ago

yes i bought those and they are great. i only bought them a month ago

William Seifert - 8 years ago

have you tried churchills?

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belletollz - 8 years ago

so cool--what an amazing way to be with a wave

Nicolas Park - 8 years ago

Mark Cunningham!!

Bobb Lawrence - 8 years ago

yep, you don';t need much to BS, not even sunshine. the water motion is the engine... non-polluting and will never run out of it.

Bobb Lawrence - 8 years ago

da hook has loved it since the first time and will never get too far away from it! Some new tricks are still out there too but the underwater taek-off, like a dolphin, remains my favorite! that and riding with the phosphorescence at nite! hope to see some of you in the water again! aloha

Don Andrade - 9 years ago

"Know how to swim, wear a suit that will stay-on, kick like HELL....and come out of the water smiling:)))
Pretty much says it all. <ROOTS>

rush2795 - 9 years ago

+Don Andrade glad to know i'm doing it right! :D

alex dc - 9 years ago

handboards is the next step.....bodysurf evolves to handboard surfing

HBSURFING!!!

Jim Dey - 10 years ago

When people ask me, "what's the deal with bodysurfing?" there are lots of videos online to show them. This is one of my favorites. I disagree with the comments about hand planes. Perfect curtain line by Mark Cunningham!

storminnorman99 - 9 years ago

+Jim Dey touche my man. No need for handplanes, something special about just you & the wave.

Cindy Brown - 10 years ago

We should go again!

Cindy Brown - 10 years ago

Woot!

tryptala - 10 years ago

Hand planes are a crutch. You don't need them and you're better off without them. Panics is a very easy wave. There are many personal styles of bodysurfing. Go to Sandys when its big and hollow to see the variety.

Caribbean Sport Shop - 10 years ago

Body surfing!!!

Niko Smith - 10 years ago

Anyone notice that there is something in the wave at 00:41

tryptala - 7 years ago

Whale turd

Aaron Johnson - 10 years ago

Looks like a shark! LoL

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Dean Oswell - 10 years ago

PURE ! ( In mid-April am off to Ghana 'n hoping to share - these guys, Ghanaians' are very ocean -oriented as for many fishing is their sustenance ) 'n thought <?> bodysurfing might be great intro for them to surfing, as most der can't afford surfboards, and anyway the wave is really fast.. Anybody share your thoughts. Stoked bodysurfer!

Bobb Lawrence - 8 years ago

+Dean Oswell yep, you don';t need much to BS, not even sunshine. the water motion is the engine... non-polluting and will never run out of it.

LoLo Renteria - 10 years ago

Such a sexy spedo <3 ;D

SurfStuffByAidan - 10 years ago

slutty viking is in this video

Dave2100 - 11 years ago

had no idea that people wore fins to body surf - now I understand. Some serious speed being generated in the water

rudyjenkins - 11 years ago

Let's be friends

Joshua Carbungco - 11 years ago

Looking like fucking Poseidon coming out of the sea

Leighton Mayers - 11 years ago

in australia at flatrock newcastle i have just ran "clash of the torpedo people" august 11; insane shirt design; i need to find a way to post u an event t shirt 2013'. a 900 x 700 one off poster will b on e bay soon

hallerd - 11 years ago

Bodysurfing > Handboarding > Boardsurfing

LCA - 11 years ago

damn some of the nices rides i've ever seen

Josh Matyas - 11 years ago

One of the guys that bodysurfs wedge taught me how to bodysurf. He said he went 2 days a week.

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bunerzissou - 11 years ago

What's the wave that keith is bodysurfing on? Panics??

Patrick O'Leary - 11 years ago

Good stuff.

1k1ngst0n - 11 years ago

great vid

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