Hello, good advice as always! One thing i would like to add on is: If you want to learn to push more of your back foot, increase tightness of back axle. This leads to use more force on back foot, otherwise your outside wheel would lift off of ground or tight turns not being possible, giving an excelent feedback for foot pressure.

I've definitely noticed an improvement with my surfing, since getting a carver and watching your (and others) videos about them

I have both carver and smoothstar. Smoothstar is all I use for surf training now. You can get off centre with your body weight way more. In saying that I still use my carver for style and flow when cruising along the beach.

I have 2 yows and 2 carvers. I like to warm up on the yow and I enjoy it very much and I can do all my surf techniques like fs power slides and bs snaps on the yow but I prefer the carver for more exact surf duplication of surfing as it has more drive off the tail like my 6’4 surfboards. It drives harder and it requires me to really commit and throw my body into the techniques that translates very well into the water. Maybe if I was on a much smaller board the yow might be a suitable teacher( I am 61 192 lbs and 66 years old) but when I want to fully commit then I go to my carver. I never would have learned to surf like this without my surf skates and many thanks to Noel for helping me along!

Loose bushings kit for my Carver Resin with CX trucks made a huge difference!! I’m 6 1”, 175#. Feels like my Dominator 2 now

Excellent video Noel, love the examples and the comparision of length of boards and wheelbase to actually how different surfboards perform. I have the 32" Super surfer and I'm 5'11 and weigh 79kg. I think that key emphasis on the compression with back knee bent and pressure on the tail to engage through the rail through the top turn is so key. Will practice that in my next surfskate session! I feel that would also translates to backside bottom turn with compression and engaging the heel side rail. I feel it could be great idea also to play around with tightening and loosening the front and back truck to find a balance between maneuverability and drive. (Previously had a #77 Toledo Smoothstar which has excellent maneuverability but lower drive = increased pumping between turns to regain speed).

I have had 6 of these. I'm 6'1 190 and prefer the 29" swallow for the skatepark, 30.5-31" for surf training. I also have a 6'6" i made and use for longboard cross step practice and turns....extremely fun! I had a 34" and felt like it was to stiff for working on turns, etc, but it was a nice cruiser around town.

Love the composition of the boards

the length between the trucks of a skateboard is referred to as wheelbase

great content here, thanks for your hard work!

I was just thinking yesterday about this kind of information, Synchronicity! Thank you!

Tks for this mate. My dream is to surf a bit like you.

I love your channel!

always helping

Love my Carver!

brutal explications, congrats....

Great advice Noel! Quick Qustion if you had the choice between a Hypto Krypto and a Pyzel gremlin for waves from 1- 4 feet what would you choose?

You the Dude Noel Yeeeew!

Noel, can you please do a review of the Album Twinsman? Id love to see your take on it, since you're a high performance thruster type of surfer!

I didn't bring my favorite drink, I brought my favorite Fruity Pebbles. Ya know, the one's with Marshmallows 🤙😆

10+ Minutes of that Intro would be so nice :) Such good surfing with instrumental only metal...I like it. Did I miss the credits for the music somewhere?

for a 5’9 155lb intermediate surfer (normally surfing boards between 5’9 and 6’1) would you recommend the 32” super surfer or the 30.5” puddle jumper?

what do you think about the board volume difference between surfing with wetsuit and without it, paddling wise and surfing wise. Cheers

Do you find it helpful for backside too? You mentioned you find it really helpful for frontside, but didn't mention backside

I prefer smoothstar skateboards. they are much closer to surfing (movement) than the carvers.

Can you review the FireWire mashup? Thanks