Surfriding Wave Carver or Air Tricker

[FlightPlanDan]

I've been on both sides of this issue.
I get a charge out of both. Lately (last 2 years) I've been concentrating on surfing/carving waves.
Obviously there is no "correct" response to the poll except what gets you off.
Curious to see the results.


Everyone is gonna do what gives them a charge. Sometimes it's hard to do it together. Carvers are always on the sweet spot as long as possible and Trickers want that spot for a split second.
When more than a few riders are in the water it can get weird.

I must admit: On a big, perfect day, (which we don't get very often), I feel that I'm wasting a wave if I throw an air trick. I want to work that bitch as long as possible.

On the other hand: There are certain air tricks that I won't even try unless I'm blessed with the same kind of perfect day.
And, when the hurricane waves come....sometimes it's just too big to do air stuff.


It's true. Waves keep coming. We can do both.

Are you annoyed by either carvers or trickers? Even in your own riding group?

Which are you?

 

[air blair]

I don't get to ride too many waves but i try to do it all and nothing annoys me when im out riding other than someone thinking they own a perticular spot in the water.

 

[FlightPlanDan]

I don't get to ride too many waves but i try to do it all and nothing annoys me when im out riding other than someone thinking they own a perticular spot in the water.

You're making too much sense.
Surfer-SUPer-realtionships are a whole story alone.
Mostly want to know what you like and do most.

Edited in a choice for flatwater riders.

 

[air blair]

Allright, allright.... With one choice i suppose my charge comes from a big backy i suppose just after i slash the wave before. I sometimes travel out deep and follow a big set in for a bigger backy.

 

[FlightPlanDan]

Allright, allright.... With one choice i suppose my charge comes from a big backy i suppose just after i slash the wave before. I sometimes travel out deep and follow a big set in for a bigger backy.

All good..."both" was a choice. We all do what we like. And we try what we wanna do!

 

[FlightPlanDan]

I predict, and this will prove it, that the "X" has become a flatwater forum. And that's O.K.

It goes where it goes.

But: Don't be a WUSS. Vote. 100+ views and only 7 had balls to vote so far?

No Balls.

It's anonymous.

 

[Little_Franny]

I predict, and this will prove it, that the "X" has become a flatwater forum. And that's O.K.

It goes where it goes.

But: Don't be a WUSS. Vote. 100+ views and only 7 had balls to vote so far?

No Balls.

It's anonymous.

lol, I'm with you, depends on conditions. On your average day here waves break shallow and I there is nothing I hate more than piledriving the nose into the sand on a backy with poor rotation(still perfecting my technic). So on an average day I spend a lot of time surfing the waves, waiting for a bigger set to roll in out farther so I can practice my back flops and rolls.

Jon

 

[Berky]

I like watching big airs but all the guys that are really pushing it get hurt . I've had a few times where I can't put weight on my heals and or back for weeks at a time from big flat landings and have decided the pain/pleasure ratio isn't worth it for me . I grew up surfing and Florida surf is so crappy 95% of the time for surfboard surfing but it's a blast on a ski , you can take 2' junk and have some fun surfing it with almost no chance of getting hurt .

 

[masterblaster]

I like watching big airs but all the guys that are really pushing it get hurt . I've had a few times where I can't put weight on my heals and or back for weeks at a time from big flat landings and have decided the pain/pleasure ratio isn't worth it for me . I grew up surfing and Florida surf is so crappy 95% of the time for surfboard surfing but it's a blast on a ski , you can take 2' junk and have some fun surfing it with almost no chance of getting hurt .

Tooo True, ripping and carving and reintres even start to hurt the next day as you get older. I think its more of a age thing really. Tricks are fun but most anything that is fun is dangerous. Watching the older guys like the fx guys in jersey,makes you realize whats possible with just surf riding,plenty of challenge in that alone. You cant tell a younger guy thats smashing over rotated flips and rolls every other wave that one day they will regret it,till they live the consequences themselves. knees,backs,ankles dont come cheap or with out serious damage and pain in your 30s or 40s if your going big in your 20s..

 

[WILKEY]

I miss big air

 

[BruceSki]

Agreed on all points. I like the rush from a giant flip or roll. But I have been paying. Just turned 29 and have been hurt from skiing. Heels/knees/back have killed me all summer even with 25 mil plush padding. Too many flat landed big flips. Broke my wrist stuffing a re-entry roll into the sand two years ago at brig.

Big re-entries are fun. I'm nowhere near as fluid as the fx mafia guys but I can throw a good one down here and there. A re-entry roll is more fun though. Haha.

Just an fyi. I can't see polls on tapatalk. And I know a lot of guys search the x via phones and tablets on tapatalk.

 

[masterblaster]

If it were possible to control rotation perfect and land every big air flip nose in,We would all be doing them into our later years,The guys I ride with have many of yrs invert practice and rip hard, have done 1000s of flips and still smash in flat every few attempts. getting squashed in the tray,the bigger the air the more likly the smash.. Us ole guys would need the illusive ross champion gyroscope talent to survive it and ride into our 50s....lol. Look at the injury threads here on the x and the cause of each..informative risk control.. Riding surf is the most addictive thing ive ever done in my life,I really hope to get my fix and stay healthy and ride into the later yrs

 

[Berky]

Ya try 50s and going out to the water with my walker Ha ha ha , but dam that's how I feel some times , I'm sure the MX and other stuff doesn't help much either .

 

[j0hnny]

carver because i never want to Dart a hull. i enjoy watching other guys go big and playing n flat water where i know im never going to screw up a flip and break my neck in 3' of water

 

[special fx]

I want both

 

[trebsdub]

Im flat water due to where i live. I can't drive 3 plus hours out to surf every time i ride. For me its 10 Minutes to the river where i have unlimited wakeboard boats or head a little farther down the river to calm water.

 

[whitca]

I get as much of a rush from stomping a flip or roll as I do from the feeling of a wave peeling and breaking on your back. Conditions typically dictate what I'm going to be spending more time doing that day as well as what kind of shape I'm in whether it be the beginning of a session when I'm fresh or later on in a weekend of riding.

As far as annoyances, nothing drives me more crazy than someone coming up and making one turn on the face of a wave you've been working, forcing you to ride through their wake and chop up what fluid rhythm you had going. Back when I rode BMX we called that being "snaked" in the park when someone drops in while your in a line. That might be why it bugs me.

 

[JamesG]

You gotta have both. Too much of either can be boring to watch. The guys who are really skilled can carve a wave up and then sneak a flip/roll in right after

 

[ChadGnarly]

Surf

 

[air blair]

Ya, snaked is annoying. Biggest wave i rode was wavedaze just before hurricane Catrina. I have never really rode in a tube but when we rolled up and sneaked a peak through 8th st. , i saw someone crouched down tubing it. Thats gotta be a rush also