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If you are raised at G-Land or Pipe or perhaps in Tahiti, ‘tube riding’ is just ‘surfing’, much in the same way that Chinese people just call it ‘food’ rather than Chinese food. But for the rest of us that happened to plough our path to shredness on a macro-tidal, largely flat, average to very average beachbreak, tube riding skills do not develop naturally in the embryonic stoke stages but must be actively sought and acquired.
The trouble is that the longer you develop your surfing without regular tubing, the harder it’ll become when you do get in tunnel ditch situations. Your instinctive line will be either to pump away from the tube or bottom turn and drive around under it, since the line required for the act itself is kind of counter-intuitive to the basic functioning surfing line (slowing down, staying mid-face).
In short, surf more hollow waves more often in your formative years, because a time will come when joining-the-dots wiggling will be tedious, and only tubes will do.
– Locate the nearest break to you known for tubular tendencies, familiarize yourself with the conditions required and lay siege.
– Go to Indo at the earliest opportunity.
– Never claim to have got barreled if you know you didn’t really. Karma dictates that for every falsely claimed tube, 3 rightful tubular opportunities are lost forever.
– Great tuberiders include are many, everyone on tour is good in the barrel. But we reckon if you’re gonna emu- late anyone, try Aritz. His tubing has turned him from tour also-ran into Internet sensation, and we love him for it.
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