Developing a backhand tube riding technique is a worthwhile pursuit.

barrel dodgers anonymous

Plenty of crew would cruise through their whole surfing career without being able to crack back hand tube riding. BV's is also no walk in the park, shifty and shuts down. Good to see more regular surfers giving it a go.

Guaranteed I’ve got a worse backhand tube technique than anyone on Swellnet. It’s legit like I’ve been blindfolded, spun around several times and am trying to hit a piñata with a heavy stick.

Awkward, ugly and dysfunctional.

Weirdly enough the bigger and more open the tube, the more likely I’ll pilot through it with my back to the wall.

Yeah its hard to stay high and tight on the backhand, easier if it's throwing wider I find.

Finding a user friendly wave which throws wide is even harder though!

It's especially painful for me because my brother has Jedi level backhand pigdog tube skills.

I wonder how many people get hurt really bad in those places with those skills. It doesn't seem to be an easy wave....

The reef there is hectic. Looks like a collapsed multi level carpark.

That place nippussy and lances right should be working a lot this year if wet and wetter article is on point.

thats as friendly as ive seen bank vaults, think thats whats attracted some lesser talents. good on them for giving it a crack

It may be an overall commentary on my back to front zigged when I should have zagged life...but I've always found backhand tuberiding way easier.

How’s that first wave - make the solid drop, attempt to stall 5 times and miss the pit and then rewarded with 2ft head dip at the end …….

Bet the young lass at 1:25 was seeing stars after that one.

Love seeing average Joes and Janes having a dig. Makes me quite envious sitting here watching that.

Spot on Blowin...
Zen for fooks sake book your first Indo trip...

Looks like some of that crew should be on a more user friendly wave

Did my shoulder at Bankvaults back in 2014 ... ended up with frozen shoulder and didn't surf for 18 months. Promised myself I would never surf it again haha

I watched bank vaults empty and 8-10ft - went out on the tender and sat and sat and sat and I could not work the joint out so never left the tender……..

Bunch of cool cats from the cool cat part of town. Cats don't like water.

@ 30 secs Twinnies aren't so pretty for average Joe when it gets hollow

Once surfed Nipussy for a while and got the tender to take me up to BV where some of my more accomplished mates were having a go at around 6ft plus. Watched for a bit and decided i would have a crack. paddling out , the sky went dark and a massive rogue set came through, wiped everyone out, broken boards and leashes, total carnage. Did a U-Turn, back to the tender and had a few beers. Best decision for me. Know your limitations.

Saltman heres a few of a Banksy twinny of me at two to four foot speedies. Handled well at super sucky speedies but a bit sketchy with big keels towards mid tide, i landed one drop and went over with my backfoot weighted on the keels too much just as it was throwing wide and thick.

Anyway these fishes and twin keels work in good small to medium indo barrels.
Banksy spent a lot of time perfecting the design and it worked all over indo.

And a two footer:

For going left i've never had another board that felt so good in a wide range of indo waves, just can't go vert though.

Its the Keels stopping you from going Vert ...yours have a real long base..have u thought about Plugging it so you can play with different Keels ... also plug it as a Quad ?

Hmm pretty harsh comments guys I have surfed BV's and its reasonable technical (still rate it easier than North Point WA tide dependant) and thought the girls actually did a fair job it does hand out a beating at that size.

Remember surfing BV the year the Ments was over run by Brasso's, a group were shoulder hopping down the end and kept burning me and a local, it was the end of the wave and totally pointless.

PS nice barrel GS.

So funny listening to all these has-been surfers thinking they used to rip, the most common comment on here is 'look at all these kooks' hahahaha legends in their own lunchboxes probably.

Being an average Joe myself, I like watching raw files like this and the average punter trying to get slotted - helps me picture myself being there and copping one on the head.
Have to give that a go one day at BV - hopefully sooner rather than later

I'd be dodging barrels if I was there...I would also be shitting myself getting wasted inside.

I would also be happy as fuck with my useless barrel technique...but 1 epic ride a day and I would sleep pretty bloody good. If I got really really deep on 1 of those barrells, I could happily sit in the lineup and cheer everyone else for the whole day.

Awesome clip..loved it.

I've watched this a few times now...foot placement and where they move their body weight...weight over the rail and weight over the center of the board makes such a difference...yet so very hard to do.

years ago I heard a great remark that seems to apply to pretty much everything -- a person was talking about, I think, protests at columbia university in the late 60s. he said something along the lines of "it doesn't matter how committed you were, how cool you were, who you knew or what you knew, all that mattered was whether or not you were there".

I didn't think they were total kooks. I guess it's hard not to judge. We all do it when we paddle out. Easy to criticise surfers less capably and also bemoan the pricks that are better and don't share. Sometimes you are the former and some times the latter. You soon get to know where you belong in the lineup.

A lot of poeple never get to surf waves of that size and power ...so fuknhell good on em for having a crack ...who cares if ya fuk one up ...every fkr is a critic ...would of been a hoot being there with everybody having a go ...oh yeah all you legends see how you go when your coming back from a bad injury or you get old ...youll be the fkr being called the kook

Just a general comment , doesn't matter who is doing it. But I don't like the look of the 2 handed drag stall thing. Much rather watch a faded bottom turn to snap under the lip or an old fashioned tail breaking stomp stall. Just reeks commitment.

Perfect summation,
Flow!

I've been on a lot of message boards/forums in the last 20 years, and I've been reading this one for about a month.

In all that time, I must say that I've never run across one like Swellnet, where the commenters are so ignorant yet seem believe that they are intelligent. It's mind-boggling. (Not every single poster, but certainly the vast majority.) Keep it up--it's quite entertaining to watch a group of grown men embarrass themselves so thoroughly!

Someone said it's a bit like North Point, could be interesting.

Loved the pics groundswell, time well spent.

Hey Stu, any idea if the weekly Indo forecasts are coming back ?

BV's is heavier than it looks. Shifty joint, with a shallow inside. Good on em for having a crack. I'm sure they are out there, but I haven't surfed a break that makes you generate speed like Norths does.