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The only way you can get vertical is a really hard bottom turn. Yeah, my name is Joel Parkinson we're going to be talking about how to get vertical. A good wave would be like a fast wave with a nice soft lip when it's just like cracking, you know. You want to be start looking at the lip pretty early. I mean the earlier you look at the lip, the more time you got.
To get vertical, its all in the bottom turn. As soon as you really pick the line of the bottom turn, you just want to get low of the bottom, come as far out as you can on the flat and go straight up and hit the lip.
When you get to the lip, so many different things can happen. You get a little funny drift you know, and then they'll grab. But you know some of the best moves these days are the ones where the fins don't grab until really late. You’re guaranteed some party of your board is going to come out the back of the wave. The lip really will let you decide that when you get to it.
If you get the tail out and you kind of come back sideways, you’ll come out of the turn with a little bit of speed, enough to get something out of the next turn. You know sometimes if you board or your fins drift too far and you kinda end up laying back, or you can do something where you really lose all your speed.
I remember when i was starting, sometimes I wouldn't get out enough out in front of the wave into the flat to get back up enough. You know I'm trying to cut it too short, you might only get your board to like ten o'clock or whatever. The more room you got, more time you got, the better you're gonna go. When you try to get vertical I mean, you definitely want to see how much the wave is kinda drained out. If its kind of like staying pretty flat you can kind of really go for but if it really steeps out you know your chances of falling catching an edge is pretty high.
-Joel Parkinson
