Surf Tip of the Week – Grab a Tube

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Simple Surf Tips for Catching a Pole

Surf Tips to Improve 

When a new year begins, we all set new goals for ourselves on how to improve our surfing. And many of you will have said “this year I am going to take a tube”.

So for all of you, we are going to give you a guide on how to achieve it!

1. Adequate conditions: look for waves of 1m (by the shoulder) with clean conditions, preferably with a little offshore wind.
2. Tspeaks: Choose a board that you feel confident in catching the wave easily and early, and that you are comfortable with getting the most out of the wave.
3. Takeoff: Paddle with confidence and remember to orient yourself slightly in the direction you want to take, 
4. Look for the pocket: This is the most important step, the pocket of the wave is that point where the wave is between the foam and the wall: the point of maximum energy of the wave, and where the tube will be formed.
5. Speed ​​down: When you're in the pocket and feel like the wave may tube, slow down by shifting A LITTLE weight to the back foot. This way you will go slightly slower than the wave, and the lip of the wave will catch up with you.
6. Get ready: Position your body flexed and relaxed to go through the tube and ready to prepare your exit.
7. Check-out: When you start to feel the tube cover your head and you see that vision you always dreamed of, accelerate: put your weight slightly forward to pick up speed and come out of the tube with a sound!

Catching a tube is surely the most amazing feeling in surfing. But like any great reward, it requires work. Your job here is to feel sooooo comfortable in the pocket of the wave.

Control these fundamentals and your time will come!!

 

Best Pipe Fucked by a Woman in Pipeline?

The 23-year-old surfer Moana Jones teaches us how to catch a tube... at Pipeline (Hawaii) as soon as she finishes her sleeve. A real madness!! 

 

Training with Mick Fanning

The great Mick Fannig, 3 times world champion and one of the best surfers in the history of the competition, gives you a 30-minute clinic of exercises to be in shape for your surfing.

Many times, the problem of not exercising is not laziness (which is also), but not knowing what to do. Here's a tip from one of the best to make it easier for you!

 

someone has to go

One of our favorite surfers, John John Florence, launching himself into some tubes that look more like a washing machine spinning than a wave. 3 minutes of attempts, falls and the odd tube that is very crazy.

A clear example that attitude and trying is the most important thing in surfing!

 

 

 

I hope you liked our tips of the week on how to catch a tube! See you next week!