If you watched the Joel Tudor clip, it's neutral stance, stacked, small steps and coffee cup. It's bad and guarantee you won't be doing that in the surf. No pooman, bent hips or body out of alignment. To cross step, you have to have your stance set. If your stance is bad, learn to cross step. The real key is not extra time and stability, it's cross stepping. Focus on stacking and aligning your body for the small purposeful movements. Get onto a longboard and you have that stability to set your neutral stance and trim. Bent over at the hips, side one, poo man stance, arms going in different directions. A lot of shortboarders do not have a good stance. When we think of logs, it's style right? Everything is smooth and effortless. So if you're going up to a longboard, slow it down, get yourself set and move with purpose. What I mean by that is, the longboard isn't going to suddenly respond to every flailing body movement like most average surfers on a shortboard. That is key when trying to work on your weaknesses, otherwise. If you are going up to a longboard, everything is slower, more purposeful and gentler, in terms of your movements. How does it move, how does it want to be used? (Not ridden, you ride the wave not your board.) Awareness and Board Designįirstly, when you're changing up boards, you want to know how does this board feel. This was an unplanned coincidence that the guys did Joel Tudor but what Clay dives into, is exactly what I was planning to explain.
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