The tighter you can carve on your surfskate
the more fun you're going to have.
So in this tutorial, I'll give you four quick tips
for getting tighter carves on your surfskate.
So let me just really quickly walk you
through these four tips and then
at the end I'll demonstrate them all together.
Your first tip is very simple. It's just to make sure
that you have the proper foot placement.
Because if you don't have the proper foot placement
on a surfskate, carving is not going to go well for you.
So on a surfskate, you want to have your front foot
behind these bolts. Because if you have them in front
of these bolts, you're going to jacknife that truck.
So you want to be about right there, because again
if we're too far forward and we try to carve,
that truck is going to
jacknife. Then you need to make sure
that your feet are properly balanced in terms
of weight distribution on your toes and your heels.
Because if my foot is too far back like this,
I'll be able to carve on my heel side very well
but I won't be able to carve on my toe side as well.
And likewise, if I have my foot like this
I'll be able to do tighter toe side carves
than heel side carves.
Our back foot on a surfskate is also very important
because this provides the pivot point for our carving.
So you want to make sure
that your back foot is behind these four bolts right here.
And also again, properly distributed
with your toe and your heel weight distribution.
Your next step is to use what I've heard both surfers
and snowboarders refer to as "triangle knees."
And what that means is, as you're going into a carve
so I'm goofy-footed, which means my right foot is
forward.
So my left foot is my back foot.
It means that you want to take your back leg, your back knee,
and basically just push it in to your front knee like that.
And so you're going to see how we have a triangle
with our knees right here.
So as I'm going into a carve
you'll see me kind of sink into that triangle position.
And when I'm doing frontside turns
that means I'm going to be turning this way.
I will actually use my toe to kind of turn my knee
and steer.
Okay? So we'll have triangle knees
and you'll see me kind of steer like this using my toe.
And then if I'm going to turn this way
which for me is a backside turn, same thing you'll see me
in triangle knees, but I will rotate
or twist my toe to twist my knee to kind of steer.
So you can see how you'll get a lot of control out
of these triangle knees like this, and you'll see how much
of a difference this makes to your carving.
Your next tip is to stack and fold.
And by that I mean you want to stack your shoulders
your hips, and your knees all
on top of each other and then fold
or compress into your body going down like this.
Because if I'm not stacked, it's going to mean
that maybe my shoulders are tipped forward
or backwards and you're going to be out of balance.
Okay? So we want to be all stacked
up and then just fold into your body
and the lower we can get, the tighter our carves.
So you do that in conjunction
with your triangle knees and it's going to just look
like this.
We'll fold into our bodies like that.
Your final tip is to look where you're going.
And this doesn't matter so much
with backside turns because again, as a goofy-footed rider
my right foot is forward.
So if I'm going to make a turn this way, that's a
backside turn
and that means that I can see ahead of me,
I can see everything in front of me.
But if I'm doing a frontside turns
it means I'm going this way
and it means I'm falling back and I can't see.
So in both cases, we want to look where we're going.
So if I'm going this way
I'm going to be looking over my shoulder like this.
And if I'm doing a frontside turn
I'm going to be looking over my shoulder like this.
So I'll be looking where I'm going.
So let's put all this together
and watch all of these elements in action.