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				Ever seen a pointbreak surfer who can’t do cutbacks? I love airs, but a man in good surf who can’t wet his rails ain’t pretty. Cutbacks and roundhouse cutbacks, is there a difference? You know there is. A roundhouse cutback is where you do a cutback and follow it through with a backside reo off the wash. You can do a cutback with a little slide at the end and the wash can hit you on the back but until you’re actually turning off the wash, doing a full figure eight, it’s not a roundhouse. BACK TO THE SOURCE… To start to get the feel for doing the whole turn, you should concentrate on getting your board all the way round. My big rule is where you look is where you go. The same with your arms, where they point is where they’ll send your body. advertisement advertisement There are plenty of good sections to do roundhouse cutbacks. If you’re racing toward a closeout that looks too dangerous to smack, turn around and do a roundhouse instead. Where you’ve been, which is the spot you will hit, will always be less nasty then where you’re headed. And it sure beats pulling off the wave and wasting all that precious speed. Fat waves. If you’ve reached the end of a wave and there’s no wall to do a turn, a roundhouse is a good – and pretty much your only – option. Here it’s going to be more difficult to smack the wash, you’ll just do a little foam climb. Still fun, though. Another good one is straight from the take-off. Rather than dropping down and trying a reo straight away, race away from the peak and lay over a big roundhouse cuttie. Sometimes I’m so psyched to get all air crazy and race to a section but it feels good to slow it down and throw a big roundie. So, getting that thing nailed. When you’re getting started, don’t do too big a bottom turn or you’ll lose all your speed which you need to cover some serious ground. Race away from the wash and do a slower style bottom turn up the face. You’re turning off your inside rail so your back foot will need to be right on the tail. When you get to the top of the wall, don’t jam hard on your tail. It is tempting, I know, but don’t. Instead, you wanna do a drawn-out arc, keeping your body relatively constant throughout it. If you look at the bottom of the wave and keep your weight fairly even, you’ll get the first bit of the arc done fairly well. Add a little back foot pressure if you feel you’re not getting round quick enough or you’re gonna nosedive. Once the wash is within your range of vision (without twisting your neck too much), look at it. That’s what you’re gonna hit. Move your arms towards it. Keep your weight even, and prepare for the rebound. Don’t let it freak you out. It’s fun, and it’s not even slightly dangerous. Blowing it is not gonna hurt you. You’ll always think you’ve left the rebound part too late and won’t be able to get up there. You can. Ignore the feeling your foot’s on the tail, your eyes are telling you where you’re headed, you’ll be sweet. Just throw your arms a touch more vertically and your board will follow. When you feel your board hit the wash, you already need to be looking at the bottom of the wave because this is now where you want to be. By looking down, your board will twist and it will be as if you’ve done a backside reo. Put weight on your front foot as this will help you ride over the wash to the bottom of the wave. In the early days, don’t bother trying to smack a reo. Just by tapping the wash, it’ll look like a reo. At the start, you’ll probably run out of steam before you reach the wash. You may hit the wash but have no speed to get back down the wave. Keep it slow at the start, get the motion down and then start trying reos.
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