Wait For It! How to Do Roundhouse Cutbacks

Wait for it . . . ! In this video I go over how to do roundhouse cutbacks. I have spent a better part of my surf career working on this one maneuver. Truth be told, I still don’t feel I get enough rotation to clock the white water at a high enough spot! But I do have the cutting back part down. The biggest lesson? You have to out run sections that you’re excited to turn on in order to make enough space and get enough speed to properly cut back. The roundhouse cutback, while not scored super highly in surfing competition, is a staple of any solid surfing practice. You should be able to one of these on almost any surfboard before you even think about doing vertical turns. Remember that solid, fluid surfing is built first upon you horizontal and elliptical approach, and then you can think about hitting the lip. In my view, if you can’t do a proper roundhouse, you should not be trying to do vertical turns. Work on the fundamentals and the rest will follow.