The trick to catching waves
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:54 am
Sorry if you thought I had some tips for you on wave catching here, quite the opposite infact. I thought I would ask for some wave catching advice. I have sailed Maui a few times and CB quite a bit more. I SUP surf a bit too and am prett comfy on my sailboard (I sail through more than 50% of my jybes), I sail pretty comfy down to 4.5 and I can survival sail 4.0 when needed.
When I sail CB or Maui my approach to catching a wave is similar to SUP surfing, I see what is building up behind me and wait for it to catch up, when the wave catches up my board speed is quite low making it hard to enjoy some turns. When I sit on the beach or am doing the walk of shame I watch others catch waves (and I notice you all catch way more than me) that the approach is to speed up to a wave in front of you and drop in on it. How do you know what is worth catching from behind be wave, I can't distinguish much from behind the wave and am wondering how you all do your wave selection. Any other tips will be appreciated, lookin forward to some CB time soon, I am healing up from a broken arm in August, apperantly to old to skate board, will stick to the water and snow sports.
When I sail CB or Maui my approach to catching a wave is similar to SUP surfing, I see what is building up behind me and wait for it to catch up, when the wave catches up my board speed is quite low making it hard to enjoy some turns. When I sit on the beach or am doing the walk of shame I watch others catch waves (and I notice you all catch way more than me) that the approach is to speed up to a wave in front of you and drop in on it. How do you know what is worth catching from behind be wave, I can't distinguish much from behind the wave and am wondering how you all do your wave selection. Any other tips will be appreciated, lookin forward to some CB time soon, I am healing up from a broken arm in August, apperantly to old to skate board, will stick to the water and snow sports.