The home for high-performance surfing. This category contains all techniques and maneuvers focused on speed, vertical attack, and aerial progression. Includes skills relevant to thrusters, quads, twin fins, and mid-lengths.
Coach Martin Dunn breaks down the forehand re-entry, emphasizing the need for a quality bottom turn, rotating away from the lip before impact, and compressing low to maintain speed.
Chip Encruder breaks down the specific technique needed for riding inside a barrel, focusing on foot and knee positioning to maintain a perfect line and ensure small, consistent adjustments.
Episode 1 on frontside barrel riding focuses on setting the rail with a tow-side lean, maintaining balance with opposite arm placement, and matching the barrel’s speed to shoot through.
Kale Brock details advanced tube riding techniques from his coaching trips, focusing on positioning awareness (the “backdoor” approach) and building the confidence to commit to deep, quick-barreling sections.
Chris Bond breaks down barrel riding into three parts (entry, ride, exit), detailing the different ways to get into the tube, how to stall speed inside, and the critical stance for maximizing tube time.
Ombe Surf provides 20 quick tips for improving your barrel riding, focusing on commitment, posture, finding the deepest lift, controlling acceleration, and using the “shopping cart” technique to set your line.
Dean Morrison breaks down frontside tube riding, detailing optimal shallow conditions, bottom turn efficiency, stalling with the arm, and positioning behind the peak to catch the perfect wave.
Kale Brock breaks down the pro takeoff, focusing on the three pillars (paddling, positioning, movements) and detailing arm placement, the coiled spring position, and the importance of looking down the line.
Josh Kerr details the fundamentals of the surfing takeoff, focusing on the eyes leading the body down the line, performing the pop-up in one motion, and avoiding common mistakes like looking down at the feet.
Coach Martin Dunn details smart takeoff positioning options (shoulder, peak, behind the peak) to enhance confidence, ensure a critical first maneuver, and improve all other areas of surfing performance.