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		a. Imagine, master shaper Greg Webber pays you to accept and ride twenty-two new 5'11s! What a life Mr Burrow leads!     Sequence: Respondek				Parking the car out of sight… Will be common. When you’re in the surf and you have no idea what could happen to your car, make sure there’s nothing inside. If you’ve got an extra board, it’s way safer speared into the sand on the beach.
				Backside tuberiding is one of the toughest things to master in this crazy little art of wave riding. I wasn’t sure what section to put this into because I know guys who don’t surf that great who are amazing backside tuberiders. Personally, I’ve still got a lot to learn. They’re just so… fricken... awkward. I always struggled like most people do but in the past few years I’ve gotten more of a feel of it from surfing places like Macaronis in Indo. TWIST THAT BODY… Your first tube will blow your mind. All those other times when you thought you were in the tube and you raced onto the shoulder and laid down a big roundhouse cutback in celebration will be remembered with quite a laugh. It’s the whole unknown of having your back to the wave, twisting and the feeling that you’re gonna fall forward when you get clipped. One of the hardest things to do is touch the wave’s face as you lean against it with your hand in the wave. You’ve got to make your body so it fits the curve and keep yourself planted. There are a few different style of backside tuberiding. Pig dog. The pig dog is the most common style of backside tube riding. The name came about ’cause most guys get this rank dog face on ’em. What you do is ride with your back knee almost dropped to the board, your back arm on the rail and your front arm running along the face. advertisement advertisement Pig dog with stall. This is the perfect way to ride the tube for as long as possible. Lean into the face with your hip and front arm. Sometimes I find it hard to do this without spraying myself in the face. Hands on deck. This approach has you leaning forward with both hands on the deck of your board. It’s good for really fast tubes but you’re not as stable. You’ll rock around and can get clipped easily. Lay forward grabrail. Lean forward, grab your outside rail with your back hand and look up at the lip. Luke Egan does this one really well. No hands. I reckon you need big open tubes to ride no hands but the Hobgoods master it in, like, three-foot tubes. The holy grail of b/s tuberiding, as far as I’m concerned. Amazing. Layback. The old-school Ross Clarke-Jones style. No rail grab, just your whole back fitting the curve of the wave. Your trailing arm and shoulder guides you in the tube. How to succeed. Pig dogging from the take-off is easier than surfing along the wave, lining up a section, grabbing the rail and setting up the tube. At the start, you’ll pig dog and the lip will hit you in the side of the head. When this happens I can almost guarantee your front hand wasn’t on the face. The way to succeed is to get in your stance as soon as you stand up. Eventually what you’ll want to do is slide down the face. The challenge is to distribute the weight between your feet. Too much weight on your front foot, the foam will hit you, the fins will come free and you’ll slide out in the tube. Too much weight on your back foot, you’ll get hung up on the face, clipped in the head and launched over the falls. Like all tubes, one of the biggest problems is jumping off too early. You’re in the tube, it’s the safest part of the wave, why would you want to get outta that groovy town? Because it’s scary in those early days. It’s heavy, I know. It feels as though your head is gonna be driven into the surface below. And these wipeouts happen so easily. Go too high, you can’t correct and you get tossed forward. Too low and you’re gone under the lip. Whether you know it or not, your back foot sits real close to the outside rail, while your front foot sits close to the inside rail up front. They balance each other out. Practise in beachies where the consequences aren’t too serious.
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