How's it everyone and welcome back to another video. Today I'm going to be
explaining the Air Reverse.
The error verse is quite a complex move. In order to get the speed and projection
right in order to get into the air and get that rotation going, you need to have
everything in place to get that movement correct. In doing this you need five main
things. Those five things are: Keeping your weight forward for speed. Eyeing out
the section. Your angle to the lip. The use of your head movements and crossed
legs in order for you to keep your body and everything tightly compact in order to
make that spend a lot quicker. When we look at keeping your weight forward.
You're going to want to sit forward on your board in order to drive and get
that speed that you need to go into these moves. You know to eye out the sections
and make sure that you're hitting the correct section in order to do this move.
This goes hand in hand with your angle to the lip. Now your angle to the lip
is going to want to be either straight up if you want to hit the close up or
kind of keeping your body going laterally across the wave in order to
hit the end section and do that rotation landing smooth in front of
the whitewater. The use of your head is going to be very simple. In the backflip
we looked at throwing your head backwards. Although now we're going to
look at throwing your head sideways. So when you're doing this move you're going
to want to be hitting the lip doing the air reverse on a flat plane as opposed to
doing it over yourself. This is gonna allow you to spin quicker and get your
body to follow the motion that your head is already traveling in. Lastly
keeping your legs crossed. This is gonna allow you to rotate a lot faster and
keep your body in that compact position, the same as we did for the backflip. Now
let's get into these clips and I'll explain it more as we go along. So first
we're going to talk about keeping your weight forward. Here in this clip you can
see me leaning all the way forward trying to drive through this section. As
I come up, I hit this lip here and we're gonna go straight into the air reverse.
Crossing the legs and landing out in front of the foam. Next we're going to
look at eyeing out the section. This clip really shows you exactly how you should
eye out the section. I'm bypassing all these sections in front of me
looking right at that end section to where it's starting to foam and almost
starting to cap on the end. And riding into this bowl you can see I turn the
board, angle up to the lip, hit it and throw my head to the side - trying to get
maximum rotation. Landing again in front of the whitewater. This clip here
you can see the angle to the lip. This is as you leaning straight forward you kind of
go into that angle, push the board out and hit that section flicking it around
and landing. Next we're going to look at the head movement. This is a really nice
clip because it shows you a different angle towards the lip. As you look to
head down this wave, leaning forward to gain that speed. You gonna angle the
board up again and hit this in section flicking your head straight around
faster than the board's gonna spin and then landing on top of this whitewater
you're just going to keep pushing down. This here shows a great example of cross
legs. As we go up, we hit the section, flick the head, cross the legs and then
open them just to keep that momentum from going over. Lastly this clip shows
exactly how the whole move goes. Leaning forward to gain that speed. Eyeing out
the section which is going to be this bowl coming up here. Angle up towards the
lip. Hit the section. Head moves around. Crossing the legs to keep the body close
together and opening the legs to stop that rotation. Landing in front of the
wave and then just riding out.
Hey guys I hope you enjoyed that video on how to air reverse. I'm really stoked
that I'm getting to teach you guys a lot more about bodyboarding and how to do
these moves, especially when you get to this level. I really want to know you
guys thoughts and what you felt about this video. If you liked the video please
give it a thumbs up and I'll be back with you guys next week.