Lessons
10.Generating Speed
11.Floaters
12.Slash
13.Reo (Off the Lip)
14.Carves
15.Tail Slides
16.Late Takeoffs
17.Laybacks
18.Foam Climbs
19.360
20.Backside 360
21.Roundhouse Cutback
22.Backside Roundhouse
23.Riding Big Waves
24.Tube Riding

15. Tail Slides

The tail slide is great because it will make your turns look very radical and critical, it’s a great way to liven up and modernise all your turns.
The Slash and Carve are great turns for throwing a big tail slide at the end of them so make sure you have read and learnt both of those lessons before trying tail slides as you will find after learning them they will come a lot easier to you.
We are going to teach you how to throw a tail slide at the end of a carve so make sure you have lesson 14. Fresh in your head.
Right so you have got your carves dialled now, you are doing them, chucking up loads of spray and coming out of them with enough speed to keep going down the line. By throwing in a tail slide at the end of a carve will turn a relatively old school power surfing move into a new school radical move that will make heads turn.

So you have just come off the bottom and started your carve, you are coming round on your heel side rail, as you start coming round what you want to do is keep your shoulders open, this is one of the key factors not only to a tail slide but to a controlled tailslide. Keep your shoulders open so that your body is pretty much facing directly at the beach, what you need to be doing at the same time is applying slightly more weight to your front foot, this will loosen up your fins. As you do this push with your back foot to make the fins and tail slide. Now once your fins are sliding the more you keep your body open the more you will keep sliding round so what you want to do to stop yourself from sliding too far round is close your shoulders and stop pushing into your tail with your back foot. When I say close your shoulders what I mean by this is turn them so that they are both no longer pointing straight at the beach but rather your front leading shoulder is starting to turn and point back down the line of the wave again. By doing this you will stop the slide from going to far and because you have turned your shoulders your board will follow where your body is facing. Soon after you have turned your shoulders and looked back down the line your board will follow. It won’t happen in one instance though as you have to wait for the fins to catch back in the wave and the slide to stop, once this happen you will be going down the line getting ready to set up your next move.