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Glide, wrap, ride-out, measured, with one thing to work on per clip. And yes, it reads the wave too: our Wave IQ tells you if you went too early or too late on the shore-break.
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What the coach measures
Feet around shoulder width on the board - wide enough to be stable, close enough to stay mobile for the wrap.
A low, athletic crouch on the glide. Straight legs get bucked by every ripple; bent knees absorb them.
How steady your crouch stays across the glide. Wobbling knees mean you're fighting for balance instead of setting up the wrap.
How quickly you turn the corner on the wave. A committed wrap is one decisive rotation - not a slow drift back to shore.
Staying low and balanced all the way back to the sand. Standing up early is how clean rides end in a splash.
Ride out is measured only when the recording keeps rolling until the rider steps off. A clip that cuts before the ride settles leaves it blank, not guessed.
A category the clip can't show clearly comes back blank rather than guessed.
The report, start to finish
Explore it: this is the layout you get. The numbers below are a worked example, not a recording of someone's clip.
Practice you can choose
Rehearse the foot sequence slowly on dry sand.
Slide along the shoreline, ride up onto the swoosh, and turn back toward the dry sand.
How to film it
- ✓ Film LANDSCAPE, side-on to the run, standing close to the water's edge. Get near enough that you could tell which of the rider's feet is forward just by looking at your own screen - that's about a fifth of the frame, head to feet.
- ✓ Distance is the single biggest thing you control. Under roughly a twelfth of the frame we usually can't use the clip at all - we'll still try if our auto-zoom can lock onto the rider, but the readings come back soft and we say so. It's the most common reason a skim clip comes back thin.
- ✓ Fix the phone somewhere and let the rider cross the frame. Speed and travel need a background that holds still, so panning to follow the rider costs the run-up and the ride-out. The glide and the wrap still read from a panned clip.
- ✓ We measure the RIDER, so keep the wave zone just inside the edge of the frame rather than filming the whole beach.
- ✓ Start recording a few steps before the run and keep rolling until the rider has stepped off. If the clip cuts while they're still riding, the ride-out goes unmeasured.
- ✓ Normal frame rate at normal playback speed - no slow-motion export. We read the run at 30 frames a second, so 60fps adds nothing, and a slowed-down clip reads as a slow rider.
Fix your skimboarding
- Falling on the Ride-Out? Stay Low Until the Sand
- From Flatland to Waves: a Skimboarder's Transition Plan
- How Fast Should You Run on a Skimboard? (It's Not Max Sprint)
- How to Read Shore-Break: a Skimboarder's Field Guide
- How to Turn on a Skimboard: Your First Real Wrap
- A New Skimboard Won't Fix Your Technique: Here's What Will
- The One-Step Drop: Master Skimboarding's Core Skill
- Backwash: Riding Skimboarding's Trickiest Water
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