Duck diving
Duck-Diving By April Gustavson Kinesiology Joke Kokkonen Table of Contents 1. ... You also need this upper body strength to duck-dive under the white water, and to push up onto your feet. ... When you duck dive, or get held down you have to be able to hold your breath. ... So a new technique of getting through the wave was needed, and this is where we get the ¡ÈDuck-Dive.¡É You may be wondering what duck-diving actually is. ... Any breaking wave (meaning white-water caused by the wave crashing down) over two feet requires you to duck under the wave. ... The main objective of duck-diving is to get yourself and the board underwater away from the falling lip or incoming whitewater. ... Forward motion is critical, especially when attempting to duck a board with lots of volume. ... Different boards have different volumes and thus they will be harder or easier or impossible to duck dive. If you can get at least the front half of the board underwater, you can probably duck it to some extent. If not, your board likely has too much volume for your weight to duck dive. ... This is when I realized that her board was too big for her and that she was going to need a lighter, less dense board for her if I wanted to see her learn to do a duck-dive properly. ... She would then sink the whole board duck her head and bring her body to the board which caused her to sink under the water and then come back up. ... It is important to duck the board at the right time in order to ensure that you make it under the wave. ... Summary The duck-dive in essential to any surfer that will ever paddle out to surf. ... The best way for someone to improve at duck-diving is to practice. ... As the novice becomes a better surfer they will probably also become a better duck diver.