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SURF
TIPS
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Pat
Caldwell's Competition Tips
1. Check rule book thoroughly before competing.
2. Water, Food, Shade - bring bottled water, fruits, eat light
and don’t eat 1 hour before heat. Also, no water 20 minutes
before heat. Stay out of the sun-it drains your energy.
3. Time sets - sit down and time the interval between the sets
of waves about 30 or less before heat.
4. Reforming waves - watch the contest area and look for the
part of the wave that you can ride to the beach, preferably
with open face.
5. Get an accurate countdown watch - be sure to wear it as you’ll
be lost without it.
6. Position in line up-think about where you are going to sit
in the competition area (before going out) and where in relation
to the other competitors. If you favor lefts, pick a left peeler
and keep everyone to your right.
7. Don’t worry or watch the performances of your competitors
during your heat-concentrate on maximizing your own performance.
8. Surf within your limits- no forced maneuvers - forcing maneuvers
that you can’t make are disastrous. Make the wave; do
the maneuvers you’ve been perfecting while staying on
the open face of the wave.
9. Wave selection - be aware of the best waves that are coming
through in your heat and where they are (see #6). Don’t
take off on a small closed-out wave in the beginning of the
heat if you know there are bigger sets.
10. Close out surf strategy - get into the wave early, if the
waves are breaking from right to left, stay to the right of
the pack. Maximize trim speed for either combination maneuvers
or one big flashy maneuver on close out section. After down
in white water, look for reforms on the way to the beach.
11. Wave count - most associations have a 10 wave maximum per
heat. Keep count yourself, or have someone keep count on the
beach for you.
12. Combinations - belly spinners to rollos, rollos to spinners,
tubes to rollos, rollos to tubes, putting "combos"
together on one wave while keeping your speed up on open face
on the biggest waves will assure you a victory.
13. Whitewater tricks - not that important, bit if you can pull
combinations (example: spin to rollo) in whitewater then it
helps. Morey Boogie contests don’t score whitewater manuvers.
14. Request Feedback - ask your more knowledgeable friends how
you did after the heat, ask them what you could have done more
on the waves. Find one of the Judges and ask them what they
like to see done on the waves that day.
15. Review your score sheet - try to remember what you did on
your waves during the heat, and relate that to what the Judges
scored on them. This way you can see exactly what they want
to see.
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Kip Jerger @ (310) 308-7264
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