Don't Be The Surfer That Makes THIS Mistake!

[@BenConsidine]

Loving the development and evolvement of your surfing Brian 👏 love seeing the updates and how far things have come along, super smooth and ripping 🔥🔥🔥

[@LongboardSessions]

Thanks so much brotha! Yea coming along.. can't wait to get back in the water

[@laurat1129]

@@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!)

[@LongboardSessions]

haha that's awesome!! It was a long time coming

[@GreggsonWong]

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]

Oh nice!! haha i'm struggling with a 9'2.. i'll have to hold off on the 12 footers !

[@GreggsonWong]

@@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.

[@ITS-v4z]

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.

[@LongboardSessions]

Oh yea I totally get it. Iv'e had many people say they would never want to treat surfing like I do, and I get that. Some people just use it as a fun hobby and sorta escape. However, if you want to get better, this is the way to go IMO.

[@nickkelchner527]

Dude I don’t often comment on KZbin 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!

[@LongboardSessions]

Wow thanks so much! So happy people get some value out of them. Makes it all the more fun making them haha

[@Tyler_Livin_]

You’re videos make me wanna longboard. Been striving for short boarding but looking at things a little different. Just bought second hand 9ft softtop hopefully an get hard board for summer🤙

[@LongboardSessions]

oh that's awesome!! 9' softy is a good start, but yea see if you can get a traditional noserider in the arsenal!

[@WorkForAvocados]

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 !

[@LongboardSessions]

Thanks Michael!! I gotta get myself a mid length. I think it will help my longboarding haha

[@WorkForAvocados]

@@LongboardSessions Anytime Im on a longboard people tell me that I look like I want to be on a shortboard. And the opposite happens on a shortboard because I don't want to sacrifice that paddle power. Riding a 7'0 with a 8 inch single fin. Not much of a nose rider but I think you'd really dig it!

[@breort]

aren't they called floaters?

[@ShaneOConnorRec]

on the east coast, at least in the northeast... they would be called roller coasters.

[@LongboardSessions]

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

[@BradClock]

YES they are called Floaters

[@textcentric]

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! 🤙

[@christiannguyen6193]

Off da toppers!

[@wynterlarrabee8294]

Hey! Your ripping🤙When you go up for your floater just three things “lift, lean look” this helped me so much when I was learning

[@LongboardSessions]

Oh i like that. Simple yet effective !

[@someroob7915]

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 😉

[@LongboardSessions]

You're 100% correct! That's why I wanted to try both which I will do in the future. We had such a flat spell and was running out of time before my surgery or I woulda taken this video to a third day.

[@lzserafini]

Great video! Thanks! I love doing off the tops, floaters, whatever the name is!

[@LongboardSessions]

Thanks!!

[@ericwickeywoodworkersurfbo6135]

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!

[@LongboardSessions]

haha it's funny cause I find cross stepping easier!

[@DillonOsborne]

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 😂

[@LongboardSessions]

haha! Yea let me tell you dillon, these attempts of mine felt like I was a pro. Then I watched the video... lol quite depressing

[@DillonOsborne]

@@LongboardSessions lol well if you feel like that then I DEFINITELY don't wanna see mine

[@LongboardSessions]

Oh I desperately want to see it now

[@DillonOsborne]

@@LongboardSessions lol imagine a gorilla shuffling around on aboard, knuckles dragging then a shit bottom turn followed by a very high board vertical floater... I imagine it's like that. but it feels like Machado style lol

[@jonny8597]

Love this! Also can we get more mic'd up sessions?

[@LongboardSessions]

Thanks!! Absolutely. I'm recovering from a hip replacement surgery as we speak, so im still 6 weeks away from being back in the water. I have a video or two already shot tho so that's good. I'd love to do a few more mic'd up!

[@KookSurfing]

I wish I surfed good enough to have bad habits : (

[@LongboardSessions]

Keep practicing and you'll get there!

[@magnetmountain33]

Brian off the top so the only things I could flipping do😂

[@LeviticusMoriarty]

Sometimes we get stuck in bad habits… like riding a longboard

[@charleskeefer135]

A short boarder elitist no way !

[@LongboardSessions]

lol!

[@magnetmountain33]

Brian off the top so the only things I could flipping do😂 bro if it’s on your forehand put your weight on your back foot and aim to stick your board on the curl right on top of the lip bruv it’s about the only manoeuvre I can do. I’m so chuffed that you said you can’t manage it, you’re way better than I am.😂

[@BradClock]

These little videos are like surfing instructions for nerds

[@LongboardSessions]

lol you just made my son laugh pretty hard

[@Taylor314ce]

Hey dude! Get a glider and start backdooring all the peaks there.

[@LongboardSessions]

haha sounds like fun!

[@ksurf8433]

Is your CI an epoxy? Nice floater practice.

[@LongboardSessions]

Thanks!! No, it's the classic fiberglass construction

[@DocPegLegRed]

When are you coming back to ca? Let’s surf

[@LongboardSessions]

At the moment I have no plans, but that should change soon! For sure we got to get a session in next time i'm out. Or if you're ever in jersey

[@olofvandersteen]

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. :)

[@LongboardSessions]

Not really, I didn't even do them back then. I wasn't necessarily a great short boarder tho haha

[@whitewaterwarrior3339]

Yeah do better😂

[@whitewaterwarrior3339]

In oz we call em chazwazzers

[@ShaneOConnorRec]

watch Ed Solt. Watch Levi Prarie. Wide stance. stay low.

[@LongboardSessions]

Yes sir.. gotta keep them knees bent!

[@AnthonySperos]

Where are all your other fins man? Thought you had 40

[@LongboardSessions]

Who knows man... my friends keep stealing them

[@dudeleboski2692]

Honestly, don’t beat yourself up. Those waves are dumpy East Coast shore breaks, that really are not that Longboard friendly…… perhaps your Wife would prefer to live in California. Why New Jersey?

[@LongboardSessions]

Ah yes! Well we have lived here most of our lives and have tons of family here, so we don't want to leave that. We do love to visit california, but wouldn't live there I dont think. We treat it as a vacation destination hehe

[@Joe-pc1ju]

stay on the east coast thanks

[@LongboardSessions]

Nope

[@Joe-pc1ju]

stay on the east coast thanks

[@LongboardSessions]

nope