Bad surfing habits...

I just get way to excited about barrels and then sometimes I try to fit into places that I am quite obviously not supposed to be.

 

banging my knee into the deck when i get up

 

I tend to tweak my backflips out a bit too much. Especially if im throwing a 720 in.

 

Not stretching before heading out. Or backing off a wave I could have made

 

Zeroing in on the lonely person out in the line up and paddling and sitting right next to him, staring at him w/o saying anything, just totally creeping him out.

Yeah, I really need to stop doing that before I get arrested or something.

 

Not sure I see a problem with this one. Sounds like proper surf etiquette to me. Definitely gonna add to my routine. One question, when they paddle away, do you follow?

 

I look back at the wave behind me and lose my stroke.

 

Sometimes I don't take a wave because I am hoping / think I know the next one will be better. When I do take the first one, I regret it, when I don't take the first one I regret it most of the time hah. Some days I go out just for sets, other days Ill catch ANYTHING!

 

on a related note, i tend to "steer" out of waves i miss or back off of w/ my right knee, leading to all my boards having HUGE deck crushes just ahead of the front fin by the rail. that, & kicking when i paddle for waves. doesn't do ****, but i do it anyway.

 

proly surfing with a boner

 

My favorite is paddling for the first wave of the set, missing it, then taking the remaining set waves on the head.

 

Backing out of waves I could've/should've gotten

 

Surfing with my feet too close together and using exaggerated body english to turn the board. Also avoiding ledging waves and taking the safer shoulders rather than digging for the peak. This has gotten worse with every year of age, lol.

 

leaving waves to find waves

 

Pushing my chin into my board when trying hard to catch a wave

 

Sometimes when I'm landing my 720 inverted reverse judo airs I'll get a little wide in my stance. Also, every time I do a complete 360 flip in the barrel I tend to instantly 'claim' it. I know its a bad habbit. I'm trying to stay humble. Oh, one last one - when Kate Hudson comes running down the beach to give me a huge boob hug after a session I tend to rock a semi in my trunks before we get back to the crib for a 3 three hour tantric session. The semi is more an embarrasment than a bad habit, but still.

 

spray watching at the end of a turn

 

I got the same problem.