Hawaii, we call'um "off da lip."🤙 Tip: one needs to drive your bottom turn and smash through the lip, with fins out of the water.😅 If you're going to just do a floater. You need to get practice overweight on the bottom turn and underweight "pop" with knees in a tucked position, to "float" off the top. Think of the maneuver like jumping & tucking your knees at the top of your jump, very similar to what you're trying to accomplish. Everything that I'm talking about can be accomplished on a 12 ft board... Good luck.
@@LongboardSessions I only mention 12 footers because it’s an extreme example. You can also do what I explain on a 5 ft board too, another extreme, on the opposite end of the spectrum.
Who knows? I know them as off the tops. Although I learn a lot of my surfing language from Ben Considine who is from Australia... so this could be the problem haha
@@LongboardSessionsAnd I love seeing two of my fave surf channels from around the world come together for this collab (though what y'all do is still lightyears beyond me!)
Been rewatching a lot of your videos since moving to a place with better waves. Riding a midlength right now but always learning something from your journey !
Dude I don’t often comment on TH-cam Videos but I gotta say man great job. These videos are super fun and entertaining. I know it’s gonna be a good day when you post!
I admire your self-reflection and honest analysis of your surfing. Thinking about my surfing in this critical way doesn’t appeal to me but I see your progression. Cheers! BTW, I’ve heard this maneuver called “foam climb,” which seems weird now that I think about it.
I’d love to see this with the Chingona, perhaps with some discussion of tail rail design. i.e. I’m guessing that the Chingona has round rails right to the tail, but that the CI log has some edge. This manoeuvre seems like it’d be the one where that difference really shows up. Cheers 😉
Thanks for a terrific video. In all honesty, I don't know if I will ever be able to cross step, although I've only tried it a few times. But off the top, that's something I'm pretty sure I could do, and it looks awesome!
Another great video Brian 🤙 can’t believe you of all people didn’t have a second fun 😂😂 off the tops… I think I would call them a floater…I think it’s one of the few manoeuvres I can do 😂😂 but I never wanna see what it looks like… I will happily die with just the feeling 😂
As a former shortboarder, you should have mastered this long ago. Is it not? I surf both short and longboards. I think the off the top was the first maneuver I did on the longboard. :)
Hawaii, we call'um "off da lip."🤙 Tip: one needs to drive your bottom turn and smash through the lip, with fins out of the water.😅 If you're going to just do a floater. You need to get practice overweight on the bottom turn and underweight "pop" with knees in a tucked position, to "float" off the top. Think of the maneuver like jumping & tucking your knees at the top of your jump, very similar to what you're trying to accomplish. Everything that I'm talking about can be accomplished on a 12 ft board... Good luck.
Oh nice!! haha i'm struggling with a 9'2.. i'll have to hold off on the 12 footers !
@@LongboardSessions I only mention 12 footers because it’s an extreme example. You can also do what I explain on a 5 ft board too, another extreme, on the opposite end of the spectrum.
aren't they called floaters?
on the east coast, at least in the northeast... they would be called roller coasters.
Who knows? I know them as off the tops. Although I learn a lot of my surfing language from Ben Considine who is from Australia... so this could be the problem haha
YES they are called Floaters
IMO for a floater you have to travel across the white water, not just go up and down. Awesome progress whatever the manoeuvre is called! 🤙
Off da toppers!
Loving the development and evolvement of your surfing Brian 👏 love seeing the updates and how far things have come along, super smooth and ripping 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks so much brotha! Yea coming along.. can't wait to get back in the water
@@LongboardSessionsAnd I love seeing two of my fave surf channels from around the world come together for this collab (though what y'all do is still lightyears beyond me!)
Been rewatching a lot of your videos since moving to a place with better waves. Riding a midlength right now but always learning something from your journey !
Dude I don’t often comment on TH-cam Videos but I gotta say man great job. These videos are super fun and entertaining. I know it’s gonna be a good day when you post!
I admire your self-reflection and honest analysis of your surfing. Thinking about my surfing in this critical way doesn’t appeal to me but I see your progression. Cheers! BTW, I’ve heard this maneuver called “foam climb,” which seems weird now that I think about it.
Great video! Thanks! I love doing off the tops, floaters, whatever the name is!
I’d love to see this with the Chingona, perhaps with some discussion of tail rail design. i.e. I’m guessing that the Chingona has round rails right to the tail, but that the CI log has some edge. This manoeuvre seems like it’d be the one where that difference really shows up.
Cheers 😉
Thanks for a terrific video. In all honesty, I don't know if I will ever be able to cross step, although I've only tried it a few times. But off the top, that's something I'm pretty sure I could do, and it looks awesome!
These little videos are like surfing instructions for nerds
lol you just made my son laugh pretty hard
Another great video Brian 🤙 can’t believe you of all people didn’t have a second fun 😂😂 off the tops… I think I would call them a floater…I think it’s one of the few manoeuvres I can do 😂😂 but I never wanna see what it looks like… I will happily die with just the feeling 😂
Hey dude! Get a glider and start backdooring all the peaks there.
haha sounds like fun!
As a former shortboarder, you should have mastered this long ago. Is it not?
I surf both short and longboards. I think the off the top was the first maneuver I did on the longboard. :)
Not really, I didn't even do them back then. I wasn't necessarily a great short boarder tho haha
Yeah do better😂
In oz we call em chazwazzers
Sometimes we get stuck in bad habits… like riding a longboard
A short boarder elitist no way !
Where are all your other fins man? Thought you had 40
Who knows man... my friends keep stealing them
watch Ed Solt. Watch Levi Prarie. Wide stance. stay low.
Yes sir.. gotta keep them knees bent!