Another scientific tech tread lol So, as far as I can see at this juncture, trowing hacks and power snaps is dependent on the following: compression, keeping your chest centered over your board (stringer), getting the nose vert up the face to 12 o'clock, Ollie-bending your knees on the re-entry towards toe rail, and of course looking back down and ahead where you want to go. I've known about the need to get back in the power pocket to extend rides and simply make them better and faster. However, today I did so in a manner where I felt like I was shott out of a cannon. The next section I got up and in seemed to break exactly as I was trowing the snap, to the point where the wave did ALL of the work for me and any force my snap created was amplified exponentially. It felt like a second takeoff on the wave, but one where I was already at my feet. Man, it felt so new to me like the first time I ever got a real takeoff on a wave. You remember the feeling. Like the point of no return projection the wave gives you where you're in it whether you want to be or not. This isn't my first or 100th snap but I swear the power I harnessed by being in the right place at the right time on the wave makes it feel like I've never thrown one anything close to this before. If I can get close to that power in the wave even semi-consistently, holy schitt bro. Things are about to get real fun. zach has explained at length to me on PMs his technique for snaps and some other cats have too. Dis tread is for all considerations of hacking and power snaps. Let's hear it.
Lead with your head and shoulders. Backside, aim your outside shoulder at the lip, when you contact, aim your inside shoulder at the beach instantly. 12 o clock to 6 o clock, and come from the bottom turn. I thought you were going to teach me how to computer or wifi hack. Remember:
it's all about speed, foot placement (keep that back foot square over your fins, front foot in the sweet spot), your center of gravity, being in the pocket, and timing. the wave will do 75% of the work for you, the rest is pivoting correctly and reacting to the wave bouncing you off the lip. having powerful legs is helpful, but your legs act more like shock absorbers than anything. slam the lip, release, and let gravity do the rest. if you force the whole turn and don't release right, you will stop in your tracks, and it looks horrible (my biggest mistake). it's tough perfecting turns on the East Coast.
aim for below the lip as the lip will move, the softer the wave, the lower the aim for the pivot, if you pivot too high on a soft wave with inadequate speed you will be left behind....like Wayne when the rapture comes my god you are verbose spicoli
I thought you were going to teach me to hack into Jennifer Aniston's computer so I could get some nude pics of her.
The only real advise I can give is that the snap is more of a back footed turn... whereas the power hack is more full railed, so it's got a much more even front foot-back foot weight distribution. In either case, I find I can get more power into my turn, and get more rail in the water by placing my back foot no further back than the leading edge of the rail fins. Snappy, flicky turns... you want your back foot way back, over the trailing fin. That's not saying you can't throw buckets with a back-footed turn... you can. Getting that big rooster tail is about where on the wave you do your turn, and where your put your umph into the wave. But back-footed snaps just doesn't have the power, or carry speed through the turn, like a full rail power hack, either under the lip or out on the open face.
Dis tread is solid thanks to hilarious posts by all and quality tech by salt, MIS, Doug and LB. There's more rippers here that can add to "the air".
