{"id":4276,"date":"2013-03-29T10:04:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T10:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantiksurf.com\/en\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2015-12-08T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T04:23:10","slug":"your-first-wave-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantiksurf.com\/en\/your-first-wave-takeoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Your first wave: takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone!<\/p>\n

Now you\u2019re lying on your boards, looking towards the beach, controlling every few seconds what the wave behind you is doing and of course you have to paddle really hard because you didn\u2019t position yourselves close enough to the lip of the wave. So far, so good. You feel how the wave catches your board. The pulse rises. The world fades away. Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Three possible scenarios:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The wave takes you with it, you stop paddling and you\u2019re already outside the wave.<\/li>\n
  2. The wave takes you with it, you don\u2019t stop paddling and you do a nosedive and you get washed away.<\/li>\n
  3. The wave takes you with it, you start floating, you have a look at the other surfers around and you do your takeoff like it was a Sunday walk with the family<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So what happened? In the first case you need to paddle longer, until your board really sticks in the wave. If this also doesn\u2019t help, you\u2019re either paddling too weak waves or you\u2019re paddling in the wrong spot, where the waves are too flat.<\/p>\n

    Scenario 2 can sometimes happen really fast, for example when you\u2019re in the Cala from Atlantik Surf<\/a>, where the waves come relatively steep. If this happens with \u2018normal\u2019 waves too, you start floating too late \u2013 instead of taking off at about 2\/3 height of the wave, you\u2019ll be sliding it down and cutting in the water directly with the nose. Very unpleasant.<\/p>\n

    So what\u2019s to be done to come to the third scenario? As soon as you feel that the wave is really taking you with it, lay your arms on the board at the chest level and push your upper body upwards until the tailbone. It\u2019s important that you *don\u2019t* push yourself up with your arms – and the front of the board down – or you will gain speed, slide down the wave and do a nosedive. The move comes in most part from the lower back and the neck. That way you decrease speed and can comfortably look at other surfers. Then from the upper third of the wave start your takeoff. Here you push yourself with a quick impulse away from the board \u2013 this time the strength does come from the arms \u2013 and you position your feet in the middle of the board and bend your knees a little to be more flexible – especially with high waves you also have a drop that you absorb through your knees and by leaning backwards. Et voila: takeoff mastered!<\/p>\n

    So that was it for today. Next time we\u2019re going to put it all together so you\u2019re ready \u2013 at least in theory \u2013 for your first green wave!<\/p>\n

    Cheers!<\/p>\n

    Dominik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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