Going Vertical?

[Steeno]

cha cha cha

[K-man]

Hmmmmmm,maybe say alittle more,I didn't quite get it squared away

I said...''nose pointing straight up,snap off the top,no fin slide''

Which is I believe only one method to get vertical.A board with wide point forward,will I believe have a fuller nose,which means that getting the board to go straight up,may be a problem,as it may want to catch.Correct me if I'm wrong...
What I might be seeing is a squared off bottom turn,board is going vertical,somewhat on a horizional plane.The tail is then slide up and sideways,to get the nose to come over and down..Looks good and is No value judgements here,just Understanding there's more than one way to skin a cat.
The question for me is:is going vertical a one part move?or should it include coming down... Yoikes!!!Water on the brain

cheers.

[Jack Beresford]

Jamie/Crox,

I'd never want to prevent a good healthy argument - especially when it's as interesting as the functionality of the Aussie tri or if a tail slide is legit. That's choice stuff (my brother always told me sliding isn't surfing)!

I'm just compensating for a total lack of design knowledge. For what it's worth, the best vertical board I ever rode - up and down - was a Flashpoint tri I bought off Matt G. Very forgiving board, although I still have no clue why.

Final two cents: It's OK to spend a lot of time thinking about Kneeboarding when you're on dry land but when you're in the water it's best to disengage your brain and just let it flow.

Jack

[crox]

Funny thing is Jack , I've never been tempted to do a tail slide myself....but the three people that I know that do ...or have done...are three of the best surfers for putting it on rail....& I think part of it is about exploring the limits of your surfing.....sometimes in surfing ...as in life... we might go laterally [not literally!] before we find the next step forward.

[jamie]

crox, jack et al,
I like healthy arguements too.

I do find the design discussions get bogged down in personal preferences of surfers and shapers particularly, good surfers go vertical because of what they ride and how they want to surf and sometimes despite what they ride.

Before kids and settling down i used to work all night and surf all day, till it went flat. Partners and kids change the priorities, however if I spent less time doing this now I could be ....... see ya ......gotta go surf.

[john -]

I think the wave and confidence are key factors to the reo/verticle move - a reasonable board is a given

best reo i ever did on a right hander was on the parkes quad on a great central NSW peak

best and first (yes took 22 years) reo I did on a left was on the flash point thruster - but that was after putting in a smaller centre fin so perhaps some would argue it was a tri

- that was at beacon, the premiere 13th beach wave that I surf rarley due to it being crowded with young and very hot surfers - its a shallow, tubing, board snapping break - i get it uncrowded somtimes

confidence has come with living on the coast for a few years now and this good site of info

and the good wave is found here and there

cant argue with a flashie or a parkes.....3 or 4 finned or...is that fined

[Beeline2.0]

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