How to do a Bottom Turn with Tom Whitaker
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Transcription:
Hey there, welcome to Surfline Trick Tips and today we're going to talk about Bottom Turns with me, Tom Whitaker. Obviously we've got two types of bottoms turns with a forehand bottom turn and a backhand bottom turn. Both are super crucial for setting up your whole wave and more importantly getting as much power as you can out of your bottom turn to get into the first turn on the wave and then also the big turn that you want to impress all your friends with.
So the bottom turn in general is, as I said, the key to setting up your turn and pretty much your whole wave so you want to leave as much rail as you can in the water and extend all the way through it, projecting yourself into that first major turn in which you want to blow the water out of the sky. Bottom turns are not the craziest thing to watching and people don't notice them that much but it's actually the most crucial thing for setting up your whole turn.
For the position of your board you’ve obviously got your normal stance. I'm a natural footer, I’m regular so my toes are over here. For dropping in forehand, you want to do a turn, you want to get all your toes buried into this rail. Both feet, you want to just be jamming all your power through you legs, into your toes, down on your right side which is going to create as much rail as you can all along here deep in the water. Water’s going to be flying off this side, this bits hopefully gonna be a buried and then it's gonna project through, release out of the tail and throw your board into a big turn.
You know when you've done a really nice bottom turn when you're throwing buckets of spray at the top of your top turn and just that transition is just super smooth so it makes you hold all your speed and power. You're going to be doing these little hoppy bottom turns. Your going to be hopping up at the top of the wave, therefore you know you got no speed no power, you are just going to like throw your tail.
I felt a huge progress in my surfing when I got told to wait an extra second. I mean it feels like a life time but when you take off, you know, just that first little sort of as you're going down the face down straightaway try and get to the top right after. If you watch Tommy Curren or some of these superstars and special surfers. They wait that one little half a second and the difference in timing and speed that you can generate just by waiting that little bit then going.
-Tom Whitaker
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Transcription:
Hey there, welcome to Surfline Trick Tips and today we're going to talk about Bottom Turns with me, Tom Whitaker. Obviously we've got two types of bottoms turns with a forehand bottom turn and a backhand bottom turn. Both are super crucial for setting up your whole wave and more importantly getting as much power as you can out of your bottom turn to get into the first turn on the wave and then also the big turn that you want to impress all your friends with.
So the bottom turn in general is, as I said, the key to setting up your turn and pretty much your whole wave so you want to leave as much rail as you can in the water and extend all the way through it, projecting yourself into that first major turn in which you want to blow the water out of the sky. Bottom turns are not the craziest thing to watching and people don't notice them that much but it's actually the most crucial thing for setting up your whole turn.
For the position of your board you’ve obviously got your normal stance. I'm a natural footer, I’m regular so my toes are over here. For dropping in forehand, you want to do a turn, you want to get all your toes buried into this rail. Both feet, you want to just be jamming all your power through you legs, into your toes, down on your right side which is going to create as much rail as you can all along here deep in the water. Water’s going to be flying off this side, this bits hopefully gonna be a buried and then it's gonna project through, release out of the tail and throw your board into a big turn.
You know when you've done a really nice bottom turn when you're throwing buckets of spray at the top of your top turn and just that transition is just super smooth so it makes you hold all your speed and power. You're going to be doing these little hoppy bottom turns. Your going to be hopping up at the top of the wave, therefore you know you got no speed no power, you are just going to like throw your tail.
I felt a huge progress in my surfing when I got told to wait an extra second. I mean it feels like a life time but when you take off, you know, just that first little sort of as you're going down the face down straightaway try and get to the top right after. If you watch Tommy Curren or some of these superstars and special surfers. They wait that one little half a second and the difference in timing and speed that you can generate just by waiting that little bit then going.
-Tom Whitaker
