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CurtyL · 09-10-2010, 06:51 AM

Don't want to sound like I'm bragging but in 10 years I've only botched 1 or 2 landngs in all kinds of conditions. 1st thing is to wait patiently for as long as it takes to catch the best window in the swell. 2nd is that riding a wave in on a SOT with no fin or keelboard for stability is an exercise in counterintuitive stearing. You needto dig a c-stroke when you want to rudder, and rudder when you want to dig. Most of the time you'll be digging as ruddering usually ends up in a high-side rail dump. Keep digging all the way until your keel hits sand. The minute you stop paddling you give control to the wave. I jump out in ankle deep water every time.

09-10-2010, 06:51 AM	#2
CurtyL Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: wherever the college girlz r Posts: 127	Don't want to sound like I'm bragging but in 10 years I've only botched 1 or 2 landngs in all kinds of conditions. 1st thing is to wait patiently for as long as it takes to catch the best window in the swell. 2nd is that riding a wave in on a SOT with no fin or keelboard for stability is an exercise in counterintuitive stearing. You needto dig a c-stroke when you want to rudder, and rudder when you want to dig. Most of the time you'll be digging as ruddering usually ends up in a high-side rail dump. Keep digging all the way until your keel hits sand. The minute you stop paddling you give control to the wave. I jump out in ankle deep water every time.