Today I'm talking about one of my favorite things to do on a bodyboard and that is to go fast!
Hey everybody. Welcome back to another video and I am super excited because today I am talking
about one of my favorite things to do on the bodyboard and that is to go fast. Going fast
on a bodyboard is probably the most enjoyable part of riding this craft. Heading down the line, if you
are going to try and get a real high speed barrel, if you're on dropknee coming around a section
really quickly or if you just flat on the board going as fast as you possibly can towards a big
section. These are the most enjoyable part of the sport. Today I want to dive into
talking about how to go as fast as possible on the board and what it really takes to go
fast and to hit sections. Finding the key balance between your weight distribution
and getting that rail engaged is going to allow you to go down the line as fast as possible. If
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video I really want to help you guys go faster on the bodyboard. I want to talk about how you
use the momentum of the wave as well as the angle of the wave to generate as much speed as possible
and hold your line all the way through to the end section. One of the things I want to talk about is
actually sliding on the board and understanding how to center your weight to best project yourself
down the line. This is also good for when you're going to be lining up barrels or when you want
to go as fast as possible. But it comes down to weight distribution. We talked about the weight
distribution in the last video which you guys can check up here. And that just discusses exactly what
you would do when you're looking for barrels or possibly looking to go down the line. In these
videos you are going to see a bunch of different techniques that I use and I will be discussing
through the videos exactly which technique you can use and how to better understand what is going
on in these videos. The idea behind this video stems from people asking me a lot of the times
how to do bigger airs and how to get better at timing. Unfortunately it is very difficult for me
to explain to you guys exactly how to time waves but maybe understanding how to generate more speed
and to also distribute your weight correctly when you're looking down the line. This time
around you're not going to be seeing my arm at 90 degrees but sometimes even my shoulder over
my elbow position and looking down the line as fast as i can go. Lifting my feet slightly out
of the water but always keeping my rail engaged. Today's video is sponsored by Bodyboard Depot.
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there. If you want to go faster on your bodyboard, these are the steps you're going
to be taking in order to try and achieve this. The first step is staying high on the wave.
By doing this, you are allowing yourself to gain a lot more momentum by going down the steeper
part of the wave and allow yourself a lot more speed and a lot more projection down the line.
As well as being able to time the section that much better by staying high, you can kind of see
what is going on and understand when the wave is going to break, allowing you to hit those sections
and project as fast and as far as possible into the flats. Secondly we're going to be talking about
releasing once the rail is engaged. By releasing I mean I actually lift my feet out of the water, pull
my weight forward and allow the board to be as flat as possible. This release allows the board to
slide as fast as possible and as quick as possible down the line. As well as releasing your fins out
of the water and your body weight all on the board, you've got to make sure that that weight is
centered, in order for the board to travel as fast as it can down the section. Third we're going to be
talking about drawing clean lines down the wave. Now this is vitally important to keep you going
as fast as possible and as smooth as possible into those sections. Once your timing gets better, this
would be the key to getting all these moves right. This will allow you to draw clean lines the whole
way down the wave without actually altering your speed at all and hitting that section perfectly
to shoot you out. And the fourth step is not to pull the rail too hard. By pulling the rail up
or even adjusting the rail just a little bit, will really affect the speed. As soon as you pull up on
the rail or you pull up on the nose this is going to change the direction of the momentum that your
body is traveling along the wave. This could alter your speed and unfortunately this is a factor in
slowing yourself down. By drawing cleaner, smoother lines and not pulling up on the board or adjusting
your rail at all will allow you to have maximum speed when you hit the section. Allowing for
your momentum to carry you through the wave and to do the moves out into the flats. Now that you
guys have the steps to going faster, let's look at a couple of example videos and show you guys
exactly what I mean. Looking at step one, we're going to be trying to start off as high up on
the wave as possible. You can see here at the start of this wave I'm sitting very high. I grab the side
of the rail here and as I look to drive down this wave, you can see that I'm staying in this position
on the wave where there's the most power. At this time you can see that the angle of the
wave is starting to pick up and actually the wave is starting to break and I'm sitting in that power
section. As we go a little bit further you can see my eye is fixated on that point. The shoulder very
much over the elbow with a lot of weight going forward. Fins slightly up, just a little touch
there to make sure that my rail is still engaged. Fins back out of the water once again, another
little touch to engage the rail, and make sure that that rail is staying straight. Then as we go up
here to hit this section you can see the line is very clean. No jerking motions on the board
and then just hit that section looking over the shoulder here for the reverse. Legs nicely crossed
and then trying to punch through this white water as I fall back down and land this one coming
out of the white water. Next we're going to be looking at this wave from Portugal
and this was one wave that I really thought showed the release after the rail is engaged.
As I'm taking off on this wave, there's the surfer that's kind of dropping in. He didn't
really look back and I engaged the bottom turn here. You can see my fins are in the water, my rail
is really engaged. I'm kind of on that inside rail to make this bottom turn really effective and as I
come up, I go back up onto this first step where we sit high up on the wave. You can see I'm back up
almost at the top of the wave here. Where i am in this position, feet are completely out of the water
and i'm just trying to get down the line as fast as possible. As we move through this wave here, you
can see that again legs are out of the water but right as I start to engage the rail again, my fins
drop back in and this line is a nice clean drawn line. Straight up into the section here and again
popping that reverse out and landing that very clean and very smooth. If we go back on
this wave here you can see that there's no jerking motions. The lines that I'm drawing here are very
clean, very precise, straight up to the lip. No major pulling of the rail in any way and as you hit that,
that's where you get all your momentum through the lip and you can actually carry that speed into
the move. Now looking at this backflip also from Portugal in the recent Portugal 2021 video that
I put out. Again I'm sitting very high up on the wave here. You can see my legs are dragging in the
water so i'm actually slowing myself down to stay as high as possible, in order to use that steepness
of the wave. I look down the line here, you can see I've now released my legs they're now sitting up
above the water and my fins again coming out. So you can see that there's a lot of pressure put
on the back of my board by lifting my legs up. I'm actually putting a lot more weight onto the back
of the board and the back rail. As I drive into this one, you can see again, the shoulder is over
the elbow meaning that all my weight is leaning forward. Fins are out of the water to reduce drag
and as I come through this you can just see the fin slightly tapping in the back there.
I'm going to now engage the rail to come up to the section. Both legs back in the water drawing a
clean line, no jerking motions, no moving, no pulling of the rail and as I go up to this one just lean
the head back, cross the legs make sure that that weight is centered over the middle of the board.
As I come down and land here, just putting the legs back in and dragging
around for a completed move. Lastly we're going to be talking about this invert on the right wedge
in Supertubos. This wave here is a really cool example of not jerking the rail, keeping it super
smooth even if there is a little bit of a bump in the wave. You can see here again starting off
the speed line as high up as possible. You can see I'm just waiting for the section to build up .
Make sure that the timing is correct. I start to bottom turn this wave here.
Once again fins are out of the water releasing and reducing the amount of drag. As I go into
this bottom turn you can see that I'm actually reducing the amount of drag by lifting my feet.
Look at the line that's being drawn behind me. It's a very smooth clean drawn out line and as
I go up to the lip here, there was actually a bit of a backwash that hit the wave. So you can see I
go up to the lip here. Still got that clean line and I'm just waiting for that section to come up
and when it does I just pop the rail off the top there. I actually go into this invert which is
nice and high above the lip and come down into that white water, break through the white water
and land that one very nice and clean once again. I hope you have understood exactly what
I mean and I hope this helps you to go as fast as possible on your bodyboard. For me this is
one of the best things about bodyboarding. You're very close to the surface. You're looking right at
that water and you're going as fast as possible across the top of the water. Regardless if you are
heading down the line to hit a big move or just flying through the inside of those barrels, going
fast is so much fun and I think you guys will love it too. If you have liked this video
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