wave advice...

[MJO21]

I am going to try to attach a video of my Sophia surfing. She is 16, 5' 6" 145lbs.
I am looking for opinions/advice for two things.
'13 z3

1) what do you think of the wave? What can we do to improve it? We are speed set at 10mph, taps2 is at 3. The front and rear ballast is full, with a suck gate on the starboard side.


2) What does Sophia need to do to get rope less? closer to the boat? further back? further out? ride the wave higher? lower? More front foot? foot placement? better driver?

[MvM]

What boat?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[MJO21]

....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lln...ature=youtu.be

[MvM]

wave advice...

Wave looks pretty good. As a beginner, she needs to ride closer to the wave. Also needs to lean forward. She was leaning back a lot, which is hitting the brake. Weight slightly forward will keep her in the wave/pocket. Needs to lean towards the wave as well. She’s leaning back and away.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[freeheel4life]

Too far back. Help her out and move the rope up to the next loop at the tower. Next is she is feeling the wave but then pushing out to the flats. She is surfing perpendicular to the wave rather than parallel to the wave. She needs to focus on dialing in the toe edge and "following" the wave. She gets on the heels and the wave and board sends her into the flats where there in zero push and she needs the rope to pull her back in.
The most push is in the "trough". The top of the wave will have some push but will slow her down. Learning what areas of the wave have the most push will help her keep up with the boat.
Kind of like snowboarding, where the shoulders are the hips follow. Have her point her front shoulder towards the starboard corner at the rear of the boat and her front foot should follow and get her surfing with the wave rather than 90* to it.
Forgive my crudely edited screenshot bot the red line is her current path. The purple is where she needs to be. Rolling the front shoulder towards the wave should start correcting things pretty quick.

[MJO21]

'13 z3

The diagram explains a lot for everyone I have with me!!!

Thank you...

[UNSTUCK]

She's so close. Guess you guys will just have to get back out there. Life is soooooooo rough.

[Rbuss4]

Feet need to be moved more to the toe side of her board so that she can "press her toes" into the wave to create speed. Also as said above; ride the pocket, closer to the boat, and parallel the wave.

[Torch]

Knees and toes into the wave is what I tell me kids. Surfing to me is as much about toe and heel weight control as it is front and back foot. It seems most people only focus on the front and back foot weight. Another trick is to have her bend knees a little more and touch wave with right hand, that forces the board more towards back of boat and gets the rider into the wave where the push is found

[Jetdriver]

Good advice here. Wave looks good, you’re pulling a bit slow in my opinion but it’s definitely rideable. We pull above 11.5 ALWAYS on a RZ2, Z3, and 22VE.
As you can see in the video, each time she gets a little push from the wave she rides it away from the wave into the flats which burns off here energy(speed). Remedy by riding with feet a bit closer to the toe side edge of the board and pressure on the balls of her feet. You have to resist the waves “push” to stay on it. As mentioned above there’s speed made by placing more pressure on the front foot or more pressure into the wave by leaning toeside. It’s all about making little subtle, tiny pressure changes until you get a feel for it.

[gumby]

I agree with jetdriver. the olny thing iI would add is stop looking at the wave. Look up at the far corner of the boat. Feel the wave, Be one with the wave. Be the wave. No but seriously head up.