How To Do Turns

Once you have learned how to stand up and keep your balance on a wave. You’re going to want to learn how to turn and build up speed to do tricks. When you stand up on a wave you are going to keep a low center of gravity, then simply lean which way you want to turn. Remember to look where you’re going instead of your board: your body will follow your eyes.

The beauty in surfing is that it you have let the wave do the work for you. You want to look like your just effortlessly flowing with the wave and not against it. To do this you have to know how to build up speed. To build speed you try to turn so that you’re going almost parallel to the wave. Then you pump, you can do this by leaning towards the top of the wave then leaning back down. This makes you go up and down on the face of the wave and will make you speed across the wave. You can also build speed by slowly leaning forward and staying parallel with the wave.

Now that you have built up a lot of speed you need to dispose of it (Unless you like going really fast). A good way to do this is by doing a cut back. To do a cut back you need to go up to the top of the wave. Then you need to focus most of your weight on your back leg and turn hard back toward the white wash. It will be much easier if you look back to where you want to turn. You’ll be surprised how your body follows your eyes. Now that you know how to turn and gain speed go surf and have fun. The more you do it the better you will get.