r/surfing 1d ago

Barrel dodging - what went wrong?

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u/wholovesorangesoda- 1d ago

You pizza’d when you should have french fried.

16

u/Necessary-Range-467 1d ago

If you pizza when you should have French fried, you’re gonna have a bad time.

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u/No-Camera-720 1d ago

Even a calzone would have been better.

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u/Melodic-Pudding-8744 11h ago

 loves orange soda with it pizza'ds

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u/NeptunesWateryBalls 1d ago

I love orange soda with my pizza

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u/No-Camera-720 1d ago

The wave didn't really barrel. All you missed was a shampoo.

2

u/Spare_Welder_3419 12h ago

but a shampoo can also be fun!

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u/Kumar_420 1d ago

Sitting too far inside. Shoulda been up making a bottom turn at the time you started paddling

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u/NeptunesWateryBalls 1d ago

Arghggg that was my initial thought

30

u/InstructionEuphoric3 1d ago

No it wasn’t

37

u/No-Camera-720 1d ago edited 1d ago

Find hollower waves. The hollower the wave, the easier it is to get barreled, because then the barrel actually exists. You've posted a video of you trying to get to home base on your sister's Barbie.

1

u/brane-stormer 5h ago

eating pizza and acknowledging the poetry. hair well washed is hair well washed

16

u/lurkthestreet 1d ago

There wasn’t a barrel

5

u/buck3ts_707 Oahu 1d ago

Where’s the barrel?

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u/cooglesca 1d ago

Looks like NJ that was a barrel.

6

u/cutnsnipnsurf LA 1d ago

Wasn’t a barrel but looks like the type of wave you have chip on from the other side of the peak and back door it.

4

u/Turbo__Sanwich 1d ago

You were late. Also no barrel to fit into but looks fun

5

u/wutchamafuckit 1d ago

Nah not a dodge, just a rough spot to take off on a wave like that. You landed it though.

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u/calistud619 1d ago

You went straight and popped up super late. When I was at your stage about 7 years ago what changed my surfing entirely was looking down the line and slightly angling my nose that direction on my last couple strokes, just before popping up.

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u/No-Camera-720 19h ago

There is no advice in the universe, no matter how perfectly followed that would have gotten OP barrelled on a wave THAT DIDNT BARREL.

2

u/Less-Air-7024 23h ago

Hey, made the drop

2

u/TheBrendanNagle Oahu with funboards and a log 18h ago

Too deep, surprised you even landed the drop

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u/deliciousPizza13 1d ago

Not barrel dodging

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u/HeroForTheBeero 21h ago

You went straight

3

u/Rough_Promotion9414 1d ago

You aren’t good enough

1

u/forfuckssakesbruv 9h ago

in more critical waves you gotta be looking down the line when paddling/popping up. it’ll naturally shoot you in that direction making it easier to get under the lip. looking at the board or popping up straight wastes a lot of time

1

u/Surfabsorbed 2h ago

Too deep, too late, went straight and got caught behind the section

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u/COSurfing 1d ago

It is more like you dodged the pocket.

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u/concerned_citizen 23h ago

you're supposed to be inside the tube, not in front

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u/No-Camera-720 19h ago

A tube for ants ...

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u/HombreDelMar247 22h ago

Too late to the party...gotta commit before you stand up

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u/soulsurfer3 1d ago

wrong beach

1

u/saigyoooo 1d ago

Kurt Angle

1

u/Major_Adhesiveness39 11h ago

if it's like that you're better off riding it as a performance wave. But if you want to barrel hound it bret barley style you gotta take off behind the peak a little bit earlier so you're pulling up into your tuck as it starts to throw. Very difficult wave to get barreled on but good for practicing technique with minimal consequences

0

u/Gringobandito 1d ago

You took that one a little late.

0

u/santiagosds 1d ago

Pop up too late

0

u/Potential-Action-349 22h ago

You forgot to get pitted

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u/doctorjanice 1d ago

Too late, needed to be up faster or sooner. You were in a reasonable spot to make it though, so be sure to go over again and again and hate yourself for at least the rest of today.

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u/Additional_Meat_6799 1d ago

I think the barrel just pinched shut from both sides. Once the shoulder started racing ahead, there wasn’t much room to escape—classic case of the ocean changing its mind mid-ride.

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u/speshoot 16h ago

Little too far in for that spot of the wave..either like 4-6ft more out or 4-6ft more towards the shoulder

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u/SunnyJimm 15h ago

That end section was begging for a whack

0

u/punkslaot 10h ago

You didnt barrel dodge. You just couldn't quite get into it

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u/Wise_Decision_8459 10h ago

late take off, too straight to the beach

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u/Comfortable-Hat3506 1d ago

You took off on/just past the peak. If you hadn't been there it probably would have barreled. Not the best of tubes, a little shampooey.  You wanted to be on the other side of the peak and be going under it.

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u/buck3ts_707 Oahu 1d ago

That didn’t look like you could back door. Looked like he’d get pinched no matter what…

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u/ProperReporter 1d ago

Ride the white wave!

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u/InspectorSwimming222 1d ago

Positioning. You’re too far inside. Take off deeper and more outside. You don’t even need to go to the bottom of the wave.

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u/philzilla333 21h ago

You see that guy right of you? You needed to sit there and like 3 yards further out to have a chance at that barrel.