A nice view of a double forward by Peter Volwater at Margaret River , Western Australia.
Italian freestyle Pro Jacopo Testa gives us a nice example of an Air Kabikuchi.
Camille Juban shows us a sick example of a 360 off the lip.
Just amazing! Dieter van der Eyken thorws a an Air Kabikuchi.
Marc Kahlen demonstrates the switch stance Kono in Tenerife, Spain.
Omar Sanchez demonstrates a nice frontside wave 360º
Kono at Weiden in Austria by Adam Sims
Forward Loop / Speed Loop from Adam Sims on Vimeo.
The forward loop is one of those classic moves that just about everyone wants to crack and everyone is teaching. To find the basics of the move I would suggest checking in on a clinic with a pro-coach (maybe I will do a clinic in the future if there is any demand), you’ll learn plenty about it from how to grow the balls to get yourself back slapping to landing upright. What you will get from this bit of text and video is how to get height out of nothing and how to land with the same speed you went into it.
There are three key factors that you can learn one at a time. When these are combined you’ll find yourself rotating and landing like never before.
1. THE TAKE-OFF
Two essential parts to this, you want to be well powered up or to the point of being almost over powered. This way you will help yourself when it comes to the next two parts. For the take-off itself you need a small bit of chop, either coming at you or going away and somewhere between across the wind and a broad reach (a bit off the wind), if we are talking clocks where 12 on the clock is pointing into the wind then you want a ramp that is between 3 and 4.30, ideally 4 is the perfect angle. Quite often if I have the choice (when on wind blown chop) to take off a bit of chop into the wind or head off the wind, I’ll choose the back of the chop that is off the wind, when you do this, you must make sure you are going faster than into the wind.
For the actual technique to the take-off it is simple:
2. THE ROTATION (PULL-UP)
This part is simple, really you get this bit right and it’s 70% of the move. To rotate fast you have to…………..
Video and Word by Adam Sims. You cna check out his website at adamsims.com
Not so much a move but a sequence of moves, which always helps to impress. Check out Italian rider Federico Infantino, in Tenerife, who does a 1 handed backloop into another backloop.
Some freestyle by Adrien Bossen the Flakachaka.
He makes it look so easy, a culo by Davy Scheffers
Art Szpunar shows a mutant cut back sending up some nice spray, brought to us from MauiSails rough cuts.
A kono by Luigi Madeddu.
Here a double burner with extra spin from Davy Scheffers.
A nice off the lip aerial by Casey Houser brought to us by MauiSails rough cuts.