Got my manta ray smoothstar a couple weeks ago. Couldnt barely stand on it, now im genersting speed even uphill. I reckon I've progressed a years worth of surfing already. So fun and convenient especially now I'm a dad. Thanks Kale.
Wow, probably the most important surfskate video I ever saw. I think I will get myself the surfskate program at some stage! Keep up the great work boss!
Bro. I am pissed that TH-cam only just suggested this video . The high/low around the cones was a game changer for me 🤯 thanks for sharing your wisdom, cobba
Hi there my friend! So, congratulación for the video really easy tips. I got a Yow SurfSkate (maid in Spain) and it’s so smooth board, I love it! Have a nice day👋🏻🧡
Great project in the makings. Lots of people are turning to surfskating as a surf trainer. Personally, I started with a budget board - Decathlon's carver (Oxelo 540) but quickly realized that its trucks are hindering my turns and you can't really go through cones placed close one to another without ending on 2 wheels. Now, I'm using a Smoothstar Holy Toledo and I'm really happy although a deck a bit more concave might help more when attempting to do tricks. In terms of movement, I feel that I need to put a lot of concious effort to generate speed using the proper technique so I kinda cheat a lot by wiggling and not compressing/extending enough (or at all). Would love to find out more about how to correct that. This also affects my snaps on smooth ramps (not bowl) as I can't get to the top part of the ramp. I mostly loose the momentum while going up so the trick usually ends incomplete. Looking forward for the episodes on tricks as well. Good luck and keep up the good vibes Kale🤙
I also started wit the Oxelo 540. Within 4 weeks I changed to Carver trucks on Oxelo board. Now 6 months later have a completely new Carver setup. But I did like the fact that Oxelo got me going and got me to 85% of the efficiency and 100% of the learning.
I was so pumped to watch this. I had to wait all day as that pest called work got in the way. Excellent tips that I can't wait to go and try out on my surfskate. Thanks Kale for all the awesome work.
11:00 - great explanation! Thank you! I've been learning to pump down the wave to generate speed and have made a lot of fun progress this year but I'm starting to get hip pain( right side). I'm almost 50 and it's discouraging. I'll try that compression/extension suggestion. Also, I just subscribed. I thought I already was? Thanks for being a great resource, Kale! 😊👍
try different position of your front and back leg, and see which one hurt less your hip - it works for me (every time I change the surfskate I have this issue, with my hip or with my knee)
HEY! This course is "the best", I'm Brazilian, I found this world of surfskate and I'm never going to leave it again! I use national skateboards manufactured here in Brazil like those from Ballon and Chico's because it is very expensive and difficult to find equipment here in Brazil and these national models are fantastic.... I recommend the course but I leave a suggestion here, respond more often In the comments on the course, I had questions about putting together the cone diagrams for training and I still haven't received an answer!
Thank you for the amazing explanation. Such a wonderful person you are. I gained lots of confidence and motivation by watching your videos. Appreciate it a lot!
awesome video! I've been surf skating for about a month and have just been learning from videos here and there but this is a really concrete exercise thanks!
I finally got my Smoothstar here in the US and after just two skate sessions I can tell this is a game changer for my surfing. Thanks for the amazing content, I can’t wait to learn more
I have a Carver. I love my board but the nose dive has been really. In the last 5 months I have done it twice. I strongly advise safety gear to lower heal time. I hope your video helps me with my speed I have hit a pump track it's not easy at all due to not getting enough speed.
I recently bought a Filipe Toledo 77 surfskate board to improve my surfing and your videos will help me a lot, thank you so much! Greetings from the Canary Islands 🤙
Been waiting for this series, just built a really cool surf skate with the water born surf trucks, had my own training routine going, and been noticing a difference in the water, now I can add these other techniques into it and hopefully see more results, Thanks for sharing these tips and techniques. Excited for the next video👍
Have been snowboarding for ages as regular, started to surf and I’m naturally comfortable with goof stance. Don’t want to change stance to regular, surfskate was really helpful to work on arms and placing/ pushing from back foot on the back wheels. Still a lot of work, currently loving how Carver Proteus rides on CX trucks. Great stuff Kale, love your drive!
@@tukuhuirama2871 what surf break you’ve learned on? I think I screwed up my stance because I was learning on left hander and it was easier to learn to surf facing the wave rather being back to it 🤷🏻♂️
@@tukuhuirama2871 ah nice! I’ve learned at Muriwai haha. Yeah, skate really helps to work with hands to guide, compress and release body. If can’t get the whole board, maybe trucks on a wider (peralta like) skateboard should work!
Yow Skalle 34 Christenson + Smoothstar Toledo 77 ( for everyday ride I use Yow, but for skatepark I want to try more of Smoothstar (i m not there yet ;)))
I really love the ultimate surfskate program. It helped me a lot with memory muscle and transferring the movement to actual surfing. Are you planning of also creating surfskate videos on a pump track and on ramps?
Love it Kale! I am signed up for the Course and only done a small amount of it - this has given me a kick up the bum to start practicing on my Smoothstar. Love the Shovel analogy! :)
Hello Kale, I really admire the setup you have. What is the name and specs of the deck, the trucks and wheels you have on the the board that you’re riding in this video. Also where is the skate park you’re at in the beginning of the tutorial. I just put together an Arbor Foundation Series deck with Paris V3 180/50 longboard trucks, Orangatang Durian wheels with Jehu bearings. Thank you for the informative video.
How do you recommend to set the distance between cones? I am practicing it for the past few sessions and feel like it is just killing my speed all the time.
Great tutorial man! Just got my first proper surfskate after riding with a surf adapter on my esk8 for a while. Although i have skated for years and can carve, surfskate is very different to my usual riding style and your breakdown of the technique is perfect! I know what to work on when i have my first session today, can't wait!🤙🤙🤙
Can a regular skateboard be used in the same manner to generate speed? I purchased a skateboard to work on my surfing, but speed generation seems difficult at best.
I surf regular left foot forward. But i skate with my right foot forward so... I am confuse, should I train skating left foot forward even if its really weird ?
Since most of the turning action comes from the front truck, how much tension (or lack of) should the rear truck have? Too much combined motion of both trucks together would make it that much more difficult for an absolute beginner with little or no skateboard experience to learn the basics of balance!
Question, I've recently picked up surfing and surf skating and I'm curious about my calves burning. When I surf skate, my calves burn, its a good burn but it burns, kinda like lifting weights with high reps. So the questions is, is this normal and will my calves have that same feeling once I'm able to catch waves and ride for more than 15 seconds?
Thanks Kale. I love your tutorials! With this one though I'm having some difficult translating it to my goofy brain. Can you show some goofy students next time?
Cx trucks with orangutan purple knuckle bushings is very surfing feeling, more like carving on a poinbreak, also allows you to make long bottom turns with steady speed. I'm not a big fan of snappy turns on concrete. I have a toledo 77, doesn't feel as natural and flowy as my CX
Just my obligatory “would you ever get into foiling?” comment Love all the tips! Simply practicing with a surf skate has helped me carve and generate speed on a wave with a longboard and reeeeeeeally ride it like never before. I’m trying to apply it to shortboard but don’t really have the best waves for it.
@@KalesBroccoli Just chiming in here, that's genuinely too bad. I live inland close to a lake, but picked up surfskating to help me with my foiling. Would love to see you on a foil sometime!
Hey Mate, I have been looking into getting one of these and stumbled on your video. I notice your local. Would love to come along to a workshop if you're doing any around town. Going to have a look today down the mainstream if any of the surf shops have them.
Hey, Kale, great tutorial. Thank you. One question... Do you drive with your back foot? I'm so afraid of the board slipping out from under me... it's happened 3x since I started on Saturday. Thanks, again, mate.
See if anything i think the penny board helps with my pumping because the front trucks are harder to move, it takes more effort to keep speed coming out of turn which is what I need to work on in surfing.
I’m going to be 40 this year, I took up surf a year ago and just got my first surf-skate 🥳
same here. good luck . love it
I'm 36 and just got my first surf skate with a future goal of surfing and snowboarding, let's do itttt!!
Nice bro I’m 52 and bombing hills on my long board carving at 30+. Looking to get back in the water myself after30 years.
52! Skate & Destroy!
Enjoy !
Got my manta ray smoothstar a couple weeks ago. Couldnt barely stand on it, now im genersting speed even uphill. I reckon I've progressed a years worth of surfing already. So fun and convenient especially now I'm a dad. Thanks Kale.
Stirling Shepard loves your tutorials bro. Guys showing us how it's done. Here's how and what to do. Watch and learn. Rock on Coach
by far the best tutorial out there! Kudos to Australia
The Tennisball pull tip was it for me! Thanks so much! Now i can generate even more speed!
Great advice Kale. The best video I have seen. Clear and concise. Thank you.
Wow, probably the most important surfskate video I ever saw. I think I will get myself the surfskate program at some stage!
Keep up the great work boss!
simple and brilliant. i like the easy going way the lesson is described. the best surfskate video so far
Glad you liked it!
thanks for ur vids, just starting and learning this kind of board, i do really enjoy it..❤
Got a Carver 31.25" KNOX QUILL CX. Thanks for the tips, I'm gonna check if i do as you said ;)
Thanks for the very gooooood tutorial. I am learning to surf on my new surfskate and I'am grateful for the tricks and help. Thank you very much.
Happy to help!
wow solid! key take away is the lower body provides speed and power and the upper body provide direction.
Bro. I am pissed that TH-cam only just suggested this video . The high/low around the cones was a game changer for me 🤯 thanks for sharing your wisdom, cobba
Great primer, thanks! Been skating forever but skating on a true surf skate is new to me. Backhand, forehand techniques makes all the difference.
I used to just pump with 50/50 weight distribution on both feet, but I noticed a big speed increase after doing this hula adjustment @4:34 THANK YOU
Hi there my friend!
So, congratulación for the video really easy tips.
I got a Yow SurfSkate (maid in Spain) and it’s so smooth board, I love it!
Have a nice day👋🏻🧡
Great project in the makings. Lots of people are turning to surfskating as a surf trainer. Personally, I started with a budget board - Decathlon's carver (Oxelo 540) but quickly realized that its trucks are hindering my turns and you can't really go through cones placed close one to another without ending on 2 wheels. Now, I'm using a Smoothstar Holy Toledo and I'm really happy although a deck a bit more concave might help more when attempting to do tricks. In terms of movement, I feel that I need to put a lot of concious effort to generate speed using the proper technique so I kinda cheat a lot by wiggling and not compressing/extending enough (or at all). Would love to find out more about how to correct that. This also affects my snaps on smooth ramps (not bowl) as I can't get to the top part of the ramp. I mostly loose the momentum while going up so the trick usually ends incomplete. Looking forward for the episodes on tricks as well. Good luck and keep up the good vibes Kale🤙
I also started wit the Oxelo 540. Within 4 weeks I changed to Carver trucks on Oxelo board. Now 6 months later have a completely new Carver setup. But I did like the fact that Oxelo got me going and got me to 85% of the efficiency and 100% of the learning.
I have been waiting sooo long for this. Keep it up!
Exactly what I needed in that particular moment, thx for sharing freely your knowledge and experience with us ☮Greetings from France ❤
This video unlocked my mind, now i know how the movement works and achieved to do it. 🏄♂
I was so pumped to watch this. I had to wait all day as that pest called work got in the way. Excellent tips that I can't wait to go and try out on my surfskate. Thanks Kale for all the awesome work.
My favourite is the Leilani curfboard 🤩🤩
11:00 - great explanation! Thank you! I've been learning to pump down the wave to generate speed and have made a lot of fun progress this year but I'm starting to get hip pain( right side). I'm almost 50 and it's discouraging. I'll try that compression/extension suggestion. Also, I just subscribed. I thought I already was? Thanks for being a great resource, Kale! 😊👍
try different position of your front and back leg, and see which one hurt less your hip - it works for me (every time I change the surfskate I have this issue, with my hip or with my knee)
This is great. Just resetup my surfskate. Definitely a style of skating I want to add to me Adventure. This is helpful.
HEY! This course is "the best", I'm Brazilian, I found this world of surfskate and I'm never going to leave it again! I use national skateboards manufactured here in Brazil like those from Ballon and Chico's because it is very expensive and difficult to find equipment here in Brazil and these national models are fantastic.... I recommend the course but I leave a suggestion here, respond more often In the comments on the course, I had questions about putting together the cone diagrams for training and I still haven't received an answer!
Practice myself in Taiwan, it’s really helps a lot. Thank u so much❤
Excited to try these techniques in the water. Thanks for the tips!!
You are welcome!
Thank you for the amazing explanation. Such a wonderful person you are. I gained lots of confidence and motivation by watching your videos. Appreciate it a lot!
😍
Trying a 35” spice skate Raymon 900 x2 that I just ordered to help my long boarding
awesome video! I've been surf skating for about a month and have just been learning from videos here and there but this is a really concrete exercise thanks!
are these exactly the same speed generation movements for surfing a wave? What differences are there if any?
Where was the bit filmed 30 seconds in? Love the run there with the banked turns.
Really you are the surf teacher I have learned so much from you! You are best surfer 🏄♂️ I’m definitely going to start surf skating!!!
Such a nice tutorial on basics. I am definetly need to spend more time on the exercises you talked about it. Congrats
I finally got my Smoothstar here in the US and after just two skate sessions I can tell this is a game changer for my surfing. Thanks for the amazing content, I can’t wait to learn more
Hi, how did you get Smoothstar in the States? Could you tell us where you purchased it from? Thank you
Hey, yeah I ordered it off of the AU website. It shipped out the same day and got here in like a week
@@haleytruslow7200 Thank you kindly.
Best tutorial out there!!! Loved the shovel thing 😂
Best videos, most informative and carismatic...we love u kale regards from Brazil
Now i am going to try this sport.❤❤❤
I have a Carver. I love my board but the nose dive has been really. In the last 5 months I have done it twice. I strongly advise safety gear to lower heal time.
I hope your video helps me with my speed I have hit a pump track it's not easy at all due to not getting enough speed.
Where did u get this awesome hat
i have been using my surfskate all wrong, i have been treating it like a normal skateboard that just turns a little better... ill have to try this
Awesome video as always. Just what I needed to progress! Recently took up surfing and surf skating and your videos are really helpful.
Great to hear!
I recently bought a Filipe Toledo 77 surfskate board to improve my surfing and your videos will help me a lot, thank you so much! Greetings from the Canary Islands 🤙
Superb thanks Kale!
My pleasure!
Great video! Very well explained🤙51 here on a nitrosk8 rainbow.
Fantastic!!! Shared with some beginner friends. Thank you
Been waiting for this series, just built a really cool surf skate with the water born surf trucks, had my own training routine going, and been noticing a difference in the water, now I can add these other techniques into it and hopefully see more results, Thanks for sharing these tips and techniques. Excited for the next video👍
Have been snowboarding for ages as regular, started to surf and I’m naturally comfortable with goof stance. Don’t want to change stance to regular, surfskate was really helpful to work on arms and placing/ pushing from back foot on the back wheels. Still a lot of work, currently loving how Carver Proteus rides on CX trucks. Great stuff Kale, love your drive!
I have the same issue, I surf goofy but skate regular 🤷♂️. I can't workout why.. Sucks because I really want one of these skateboards
@@tukuhuirama2871 what surf break you’ve learned on? I think I screwed up my stance because I was learning on left hander and it was easier to learn to surf facing the wave rather being back to it 🤷🏻♂️
@@aler8910ye lefty break Raglan NZ, I try and hit the beaches here cos my backhand skills are terrible lol
@@tukuhuirama2871 ah nice! I’ve learned at Muriwai haha. Yeah, skate really helps to work with hands to guide, compress and release body. If can’t get the whole board, maybe trucks on a wider (peralta like) skateboard should work!
@@aler8910 haha true not far at all, okay ye I'll look into that cheers bro
Hi, Great tutorial. I’m getting a bit confused do you do the tennis ball and Shovelling together or are they separate all the time?
What’s your height and weight for comparison and what do you think of the the 34” 77 Smoothstar vs the one you have here?
Yow Skalle 34 Christenson + Smoothstar Toledo 77 ( for everyday ride I use Yow, but for skatepark I want to try more of Smoothstar (i m not there yet ;)))
Is it a big difference between CX and Yow? CX probably is harder to accelerate.
Your videos are the bomb thank you
Holy crap, this is excellent instruction!
Thanks!
my favourite surf skate (smoothe star) is the 32'' flying fish(;
Does surfskating properly carry the trained ability to the water?
thanks kale for share this nice content
I really love the ultimate surfskate program. It helped me a lot with memory muscle and transferring the movement to actual surfing. Are you planning of also creating surfskate videos on a pump track and on ramps?
🙌🏽🤙🏽
Do you think I could start with a carver ?
Love it Kale! I am signed up for the Course and only done a small amount of it - this has given me a kick up the bum to start practicing on my Smoothstar. Love the Shovel analogy! :)
Frothing !! Lemme know how you go!
Hey Kale have you tried a double king pin truck? Thinking it would be pretty close. What do you think?
I just bought the ultimate surfskate course !
Hello Kale
I see some 8” cones from Amazon - is that too big ; yours look a bit smaller 🙏
I wonder if pushing mongo is actually BETTER for surf training? You plant the back foot first when you pop up right?
Great advice!
Thank you so much !!! ❤
You're welcome 😊
I've broken my ankle badly using surf skate. Doing a uturn. Sergery, hard wear, up to long recovery now.
Backhand 🔛🔝
Hello Kale, I really admire the setup you have. What is the name and specs of the deck, the trucks and wheels you have on the the board that you’re riding in this video. Also where is the skate park you’re at in the beginning of the tutorial. I just put together an Arbor Foundation Series deck with Paris V3 180/50 longboard trucks, Orangatang Durian wheels with Jehu bearings. Thank you for the informative video.
SmoothStar 🤙🏽
How do you recommend to set the distance between cones? I am practicing it for the past few sessions and feel like it is just killing my speed all the time.
Great tutorial man! Just got my first proper surfskate after riding with a surf adapter on my esk8 for a while. Although i have skated for years and can carve, surfskate is very different to my usual riding style and your breakdown of the technique is perfect! I know what to work on when i have my first session today, can't wait!🤙🤙🤙
Can a regular skateboard be used in the same manner to generate speed? I purchased a skateboard to work on my surfing, but speed generation seems difficult at best.
could i use a cruiser board or will it have some restrictions ?
Does anybody here have a Quicksilver surf skate? They look good and cost half of the price in NZ. I can’t find any reviews online.
I surf regular left foot forward. But i skate with my right foot forward so... I am confuse, should I train skating left foot forward even if its really weird ?
Have to skate regular too in order to benefit
Since most of the turning action comes from the front truck, how much tension (or lack of) should the rear truck have? Too much combined motion of both trucks together would make it that much more difficult for an absolute beginner with little or no skateboard experience to learn the basics of balance!
BRAVO kale
Kale, you're awesome! Thanks for this video! Super helpful!
This is soooo 👍🏻good. Thank you 🙏
Question, I've recently picked up surfing and surf skating and I'm curious about my calves burning. When I surf skate, my calves burn, its a good burn but it burns, kinda like lifting weights with high reps. So the questions is, is this normal and will my calves have that same feeling once I'm able to catch waves and ride for more than 15 seconds?
Just a specific form of fitness you’ll get there!
Thanks Kale. I love your tutorials! With this one though I'm having some difficult translating it to my goofy brain. Can you show some goofy students next time?
Cx trucks with orangutan purple knuckle bushings is very surfing feeling, more like carving on a poinbreak, also allows you to make long bottom turns with steady speed. I'm not a big fan of snappy turns on concrete. I have a toledo 77, doesn't feel as natural and flowy as my CX
Just my obligatory “would you ever get into foiling?” comment
Love all the tips! Simply practicing with a surf skate has helped me carve and generate speed on a wave with a longboard and reeeeeeeally ride it like never before. I’m trying to apply it to shortboard but don’t really have the best waves for it.
Haha I tried briefly and didn’t like
@@KalesBroccoli Just chiming in here, that's genuinely too bad. I live inland close to a lake, but picked up surfskating to help me with my foiling. Would love to see you on a foil sometime!
Very useful info dude! Great video, thanks so much, it’s always nice to come back to the basics 🤙🏼🙂
Great stuff! Thanks for the tutorial. Can't wait to watch cutback explanations and training in a bowl. 🤜🏼🤛🏼
Hey kale! Where abouts is that little pump track skatepark in the video?
Margaret river Western Australia :)
Grazie ottimo tutorial
I’m a regular surfing but goofy on surf skates and snowboards. What should I do?
Commit to regular on surf and surf skate
Thank you so much !!!
Hey Mate, I have been looking into getting one of these and stumbled on your video. I notice your local. Would love to come along to a workshop if you're doing any around town. Going to have a look today down the mainstream if any of the surf shops have them.
I move around a lot kalebrock.com.au/surf :)
@@KalesBroccoli Yes, I see that now. Ha, I'm in Margs.
Ps I bought the Smoothstar manta and loving it.
do you live in Avalon, it looks like it :D
Will there ever be a #2 ?
There’s a whole playlist
@@KalesBroccoli I saw it, it wasnt named the same like "#2", "#3" so I was confused
What surfskate are you using?
Nice skill 👍👍
Thank you
Hey, Kale, great tutorial. Thank you. One question... Do you drive with your back foot? I'm so afraid of the board slipping out from under me... it's happened 3x since I started on Saturday. Thanks, again, mate.
good job ! Thank's
Nice skill 🙂🤙🏼
If I use a penny board for this will it just create bad habits because i use my front foot too much?
See if anything i think the penny board helps with my pumping because the front trucks are harder to move, it takes more effort to keep speed coming out of turn which is what I need to work on in surfing.
Do you know if SmoothStars are available in the US. If not, what else would be a good option?
Use the link in description and just select international shipping from Australia