RobertoGatos
Rob
- Location
- Morgan Hill, Ca
If there is a wall of white water, or a huge breaking wave coming at you is it a good idea to just sub it like a surfer? Never seen or heard of anyone doing this...
Surfers duck dive waves because its the most practical way of getting through them considering there sport. On a ski I'm sure someone could master this if it was there intention but its not a practical manuver. Skis are so fast that in the same time it takes a surfer to duck dive a wave, a skier can simply turn away from a wave he can't make it over, then turn back into them after they have broken and hop the white wash to get past them
Done it racing, but not on purpose. Learn to read the waves. If you cannot learn to do this then you really need to stay off them.
If you are heading towards a wave and you can see it is going to break before you get there. You can lay back and let it break then "bunny hop" up onto it. Or catch it right as it breaks and make it over. But if it is curling and you hit it one of two things can happen. 1. you punch through it and are ok 2. you get turned and rolled. Not fun.
That happened to me on a B1, flyin down the front stretch and I hadn't ever really been in the surf before... I kept waffling to hop over the wave or not until it was too late and I got rolled! That sucked bad