Side slipping help?

General Discussion
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My dad talks about hot surfers in the early 70’s pulling some wild kind of side-slip maneuver. If I recal correctly, I think I remember seeing David Nuuhiwa or Jock Sutherland doing this in the film Pacific Vibrations. Does anybody have any experience doing this? It sounds fun.

I found THIS LINK that has some info on side slipping. If you’re interested, click it and use your browser’s “find” feature (usually ctrl+f).

Here’s another link to side-slipping info in a book.

I’d appreciate any information. Might be fun to try or make a board that excels at side slipping. I surf in North County San Diego, so there’s a variety of surf to try it out in.

THANKS!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUgguYAUVlc I remembered this scene from a movie I saw and thought you would dig it. Theres some side slipping starting at 1:53 (Jay Riddle at Topanga Beach).  

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A stalling manuver used in the early part of the shortboard revolution.  Where you would break your fin free from the wave and slide basically on the rail and part of the bottom.  Also used as a set up for a 360.

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Single fin, and unweight the inside rail

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First off we were riding drawn out “gun” style boards and cut backs were tough. We just stalled on the tail waiting for sections, G. Lopez gave us a lesson in side sipping at a Huntington Bch. Contest ’70?

A simple way to pull off the maneuver is to get into a walled up or barreling section and put your hands (together) into the wave face this will cause a twist in your feet (only works front side) and the fin should release, control is achieved by increasing drag on your hands or releasing pressure.

Best done on single fin boards, as multi fins are very hard to control.

 

Nui Aloha

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If you are really interested in sideslippin' or doing the La La, you ought to try an alaia or at least surf a finless board a few times.

 Check out Derek Hynd and others going Finless on You Tube 

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That is awesome. Good share.

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If I remember correctly Herbie Fletcher used to do some crazy side sliping bottom turns and the like. Can’t recall which movies the footage is in but worth investigating.

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Hey Zac, just watched that Jay Riddle clip, how good was that guy? Best surfing I have seen in a long while.

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Keepin it in the pocket with a prone perspective…slippin and sliding as needed…

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Thanks for all the info. Watching Jay Riddle surf was pretty cool. (Was Topanga as agro then as it is now?)

I like that style of surfing on the 70’s boards…maybe make the tail a bit more rounded and give the board some more width…

 

What size fin would allow for some slippage? I’ve got a Greenough 4A 7", think it’ll work?

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 There were some that were masters of edge control and could put those gunny shapes into full speed on rail cut backs.  But for the most part us mortals swing the board in a stall just a tad over 1/2 a turn and say we did a cut back.