Hey everybody and welcome back to another how to video.
Today we are going to be talking about the forward spin.
The forward spin is one of those moves that is very functional and can be
done on many different places on the wave.
For me personally, I love to come out of a barrel
and do a quick forward spin in the pocket. But for most of you, you're
going to be looking to do them on a little bit flatter surface of the wave.
My thoughts on how to explain the forward spin are going to go
through various different stages and we're going to talk about five different
steps that will help you to do the forward spin. To get
your body in a position to where you feel comfortable doing
these forward spins more often. The forward spin can be used to
link moves on a wave either at the start, in the
middle or at the end of a wave. Although this
move is very versatile and can be done in many different sections,
the idea is to get your board as flat as possible when doing these forward spins.
This will really help you to finish the maneuver and keep momentum to stay on
the wave. I want to talk about five different
steps that will help you to achieve your forward spin. The
first step you're going to be looking at the right positioning
on the wave. This is really important because as I've said before
the steeper parts of the wave are really difficult to do this move.
I would say if you are getting into the advanced stages of maneuvers,
you're probably going to be wanting to look for the more vertical places to do
these moves. And instead of going for your normal
forward spin, you're going to want to be going for your air forwards
and your big air moves on those sections. You're going to be wanting to look at
the flatter section of the wave to be able to stay
flat on the board, keep momentum and continue on on the wave Itself
to do more moves. The second step is
to make sure the board is flat. What I mean by this is you want to make sure
that the board is parallel to the water. If
you are doing a bottom turn and want to put a forward in,
the chances of you sliding out are quite high. Although this move is done
on a more of a flat plane, you're going to want to start
by doing them on a very flat surface of the wave
as close to the foam as you can. The idea about this
is that the reverse is generally done on the outside of the wave. Where the
forward is done more in the pocket and more in the zone of the wave with
the most power. Step three you're going to lift your
outside leg and begin the rotation with your head.
This step is really key to getting these forward spins done.
The idea behind you lifting your outside leg is you want to be planting the
inside leg down to start the initial spin maneuver.
Then you're going to be using your head to look over your shoulder,
as we have done before in majority of these moves
and get the rotation going. This, along with step four,
which will be pulling your body up to keep your whole body centered on the
board. As well as crossing your legs so that
the weight comes up and you're in quite a tight ball when
you do these forward spins. This will help for the spin to go a lot
quicker and you won't be slowed down by any of your body parts being way too
over the board or the nose digging in or the tail at the end of the move
This will really help you to perfect
those forward spins and get them done in the most fluid motion that you
possibly can. Step five you're going to look
forward and stop the rotation by dropping your legs. What happens here
is you allow the legs to drop down into the water.This will actually
stop the rotation along with your head not looking over
your shoulder anymore it will allow you to keep going on the
wave and you can look for that next section.
Looking at step one we're going to focus on the positioning on the wave
where you want to do the forward spin. Here you can see it's the flat section I
do a little chop hop and come around with the forward spin.
That flat section is the section i'm talking about and
it's easy to link moves after that. In step two and keeping your
board flat. We watch this wave where it's a little
bit more of an incline but I get the board flat enough to do
the forward spin and come around very cleanly.
In step 3 we're going to look at lifting the outside leg
here in the video you can quite clearly see me lift that outside leg
and push my head around to start the rotation.
Step four we're going to look at making the body
centered and crossing the legs. As I go up for the spin you can see how
i've pulled the board forward got centered on the board and then
dropped the legs straight away afterwards, to go into the next move.
Step five you can look forward and drop the legs.
As I come around and I look to go into the spin
As I come around and finish it off i'm looking straight
And then to finish it off we put everything together.
The positioning on the wave linking the moves on this flat surface.
Spinning it around cross the legs looking forward and dropping the legs to
stop the rotation. Getting around that section and then
linking it into the second reverse move here
and calling it a complete wave.
So everyone I hope you have learned something new on how to forward spin
and how to get these done in the most perfect position
on the wave. My ideas behind these how-to videos are to empower you guys
and allow you guys to be getting the most out of your bodyboarding experience.
I know when I was growing up, I always wanted to do these big air moves
and do clean spins on the wave and this is
one of the ways that I want to give back to you guys. If you guys want to ask more
questions about this please drop it down in the comments
below. Otherwise hit me up on instagram and let me know exactly
what you're struggling with or how well you have done with these
forward spins. I really look forward to getting a lot
of videos and speaking to you guys as this is really what I love to do in
helping you guys be the best bodyboarders you can be.
If you haven't already please like this video and subscribe to
my channel and hit that notification bell to get
notified when these videos come out first.
I hope you are staying safe and healthy
and we will see you in the next video!