Duck snorkeling is just a surfing technique utilized by many surfers to hit heavy whitewater or perhaps a breaking tide using relative ease. To get it right, it will take practice and time. Here are some steps to find out how to duck dive a surfboard.

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A couple of feet before the wave hitsdown, lean forward and push the nose of the surfboard down hard with both arms, stretching your arms fully. Your grip on the surfboard should be on a third of it’s length from the nose.

As you’re pushing with your arms, then you are going to push down with one knee. Watch a seasoned surfer from beach and you will see that whilst the knee is slowly shoving the tail down, the other leg is wrapped up in the air, giving greater momentum into the knee that is pushing the tail down.

Chances are you should be fully submerged and the tide will soon be passing overhead. As the tide is departure, keep shoving back on the surfboard, but try to maintain your self level to the board.

The back force in the knee that pushed down the tail, may cause the nose to lift. Pull now together with your hands and you should pop out at the back of the wave.

Since you may see, there are few steps involved in learning how to duck dive a surfboard. But, it’s an art that takes a lot of practice to get the timing correct. If you start your duck dip too so on then you will submerge and then pop up until the tide has fully passed. If you begin the duck dive too late, then the wave will hit before you’re submerged. It also takes a great deal of training to find the technique just right. Pushing down the nose is not often overly much, it’s with the knee to drive down the tail that gives most surfers learning to duck dive the issue. Just keep at it, clinic the duck dive on smaller days, also use the eskimo roll (also referred to as turning turtle) on multiple times until you get more convinced using duck diving.

It has to be noticed that duck diving is actually a maneuver that is performed best with shortboards. Duck diving could be done on a funboard (Mini-Mal ) or even a longboard but it takes far more push to find the nose submerged. When I surf with a long board, I opt to show turtle. I can’t get enough downward force onto the surfboard to submerge the board adequately beneath the water. I find yourself losing too much ground as the white-water pushes me towards coast. I find for me, it’s more efficient to turn turtle and continue once the wave has passed.