Wayno and Devon are such legends, and such legends to taking you out in Cali and making you a board! They both drop so many good nuggets in your videos that it took me years to figure out on my own. Wayne's description of your videos was classic! I'll at some too, your videos can be a little kooky but your love of surfing, joy, honesty and humility shine through. Don't change it. I've got two boards from Wayno and they are two of my all time favourites. If you ever decide to step down from longboards and explore Fishes hit me up. I've spent the last decade exploring that space and I'm happy to share some knowledge. When you're ready to get a longboard not for nose riding, have Wayno or Michael Miller make you a glider! If you've got any long waves on the east coast it will blow your mind.
Oh man well said!! Yea they are the best.. so many good nuggets in there!! Yea I would love to get into a smaller board.. possibly a mid length? Just need something for the bigger days and I think that will actually help my longboarding. A glider would be nice too!
Thanks for getting back to me Brian. I bought a 10’6” glider in Byron Bay (Donald Takayama) and have had a ball on it! I know you’re friends with Ben in Australia but if you ever come to the Gold Coast, I’d be happy to introduce you to the crew at Currumbin Alley, and take you surfing at Kirra and other famous spots.
As a fellow Jersey surfer just beginning my journey at 30, I really appreciate your informative insights and storytelling. Your videos always manage to blend useful tips with engaging narratives, making them a joy to watch. Hope to see you out in the lineup one day 🤙
Wahoo! Awesome to see your progression take a huge leap forward! Suddenly you have this shift to big flowy turns and surf up and down more of the wave face, rather than linear surfing down the line. Looks so nice and really inspiring to go out and do the same.
Great watch as always, Brian. I would add to Wayne’s comments re your casual demeanour, that your self-deprecating sense of humour is both engaging and refreshing. Keep it up 🤙✌️
Moving to the shorter board works for you. Looking great! ...and building the quiver too! Pulling the right board for the right conditions is beautiful luxury. (But be careful, it's a universal law that quivers only increase in size. 😂
I love that comparison of your refined bottom turns to Devon’s!! Makes such a difference to the angle you’re taking and speed you’re generating on the wave, so sick!! 🔥🤙
Sincerity I believe is the key to beautiful style. I do 20 min yoga meditation and task concentration warm up every surf. I get corralled into the wave making me surf to midlength style. And as a rule I try to fucus on being polite and having good intentions in the bust manly Sydney area line ups. Really like your vibe
Thanks so much Nathan! Yea for sure, gotta be polite and have fun. If all were like that, surfing would be friendlier. Although honestly, I get pretty good vibes most times in NJ and cali
You got style brotha. It finally has come. Been watching since the beginning and you’re finally getting it. Turn hard smack the lip set up the line! Great video
Devon is the man, for sure. It’s wild, I tried a CI Log over the summer and it sent me on this exploration of trying new boards. I ended up settling on a different board, but it was those months on the CI that set me up for success. Loving the content and as soon as I can get footage I’ll be joining the site. Thanks!
So great to watch you make that connections with the bottom turns. It amazing how much a little adjustment to your style makes you look more effortless and like you've been surfing forever! Keep it up Brian, your doing great!
You are ripping these days, keep up the great work! And I agree, smaller more pulled in, refined longboards work great out here in fast and steep east coast beachbreak.
Cool, my longboard is a 9'4". It's a all around board and fits my needs in E. Central Florida. I would love to try it in that little point break you were surfing in Ca. I think the 9'3" fits your surfing great!
Hey Brian, love your videos. I’m a surfer living on the Gold Coast, Australia. Been surfing for almost 50 years and switched to long boarding in the last 8. I’ve recently got interested in a unique style of longboard called “the glider”. Maybe your audience would be interested in exploring the style of board? Cheers, Mark
Thanks Mark!! Yes a glider would be awesome, however NJ is not the best place for it. I could travel a few hours tho and get some waves that would work well for a glider
Slater vs. Curren. Who is more beautiful to watch? Can't put it on paper though. You have great skills. Clear your mind and feel the rhythm of the wave.
Dude, your surfings improving by leaps! Good move going shorter, especially for the beachbreaks. 9'3's arent just for the lighter guys. It's my favorite length in a longboard and I'm 6'1 and 200+ lbs. But I also always surf beachbreaks that are more punchy than soft. Keep up the good work!
Cool thing about Devon is that he looks like he’s from the era when all boards were long and it was just “surfing”, not “longboarding”. Tail to tip is a great way of putting it. I really enjoy watching clips of guys like Barry Kanaiaupuni, Phil Edwards and Nat Young from those days
Bro love seeing your videos, some sick bottom turns and rail grabs!! I seen you surf Monmouth county, I love my custom log from my buddy who’s a local shaper, I’ll look out for ya in the lineup🤙🏼 And that shaper was right, jersey people are cool
So glad, wanted to tell you thru the screen to go shorter than 9 '6" , at 150lb or less like us, that extra board slows us down by large %'s every turn...my opinion of course. Great riding, howdy from NH. Come on up, I'm a block from Cinnamon Rainbows.
Don't mistake Devon's bottom turns as simply tools of speed. It's about the correct amount of speed to: be in the correct position and enable your next maneuver. Note how he mixes them. When you're longboarding you're reacting far more in the future than you would with a short board, it's proactive vs reactive due to the nature of the board. For example you need to stay in the pocket and have too much speed, he flicks the bottom turn to drop speed, going for a carve or top turn, don't flick on the pivot to keep speed which you need through the turn. Also anything involving trim correction or nose movements after the bottom turn you're usually going to use the bottom turn as a stall. You can see him do it often. The most obvious thing to me from watching you surf is your too focused on the nose and forward half of your board, you need to work on back stepping a step or two and use the tail more. Once you've got that waxed a whole new dimension unfolds. Your nose work and forward cross steps are great, especially backhand which is far harder. Just use the tail more.
If I may offer you a simple solution that will take you where you’re looking to go? Look where you want to go one step ahead of where you are. Before you get to the bottom of your bottom turn, you should be looking at the top of the section you’re turning into. On your way up, you should be turning your head back towards the beach. These head movements will, in turn, move your shoulders and eventually your torso and legs will follow. In one of the clips, you appear to be looking at the nose of your board on your way to a cutback, rather than spotting the next section of the wave, and it stalled you out a bit. You might be too focused on “doing the trick,” where you’re thinking about what your board is doing or if your feet are in the right position, rather than looking where to go next. Admittedly, these are definitely more short board techniques for riding waves, where you’re doing faster rail-to-rail transfers and tighter turns. But, if you notice how your friend who you’re trying to emulate rides, he’s riding that 9’3” like it’s a 5’6”. He definitely takes his short board skills and uses them on that log. Anyway, i hope this makes sense and it helps. Cheers and happy surfing!
wow you are so completely correct! Iv'e really noticed this when practicing off the tops. You for sure have to be looking at the top of the wave while you bottom turn. Still working on this, but staying ahead of the wave is going to be a game changer for me.
Fantastic video brian and ill will check the website out !! Can i ask you how often do you get in ? I am in a similar situation to you 3 kids full time work and 1 hr drive to beach
Oh wow! You're basically similar to me in size. I am 5'4" 139. Wanted to ask what size wetsuit you wear? P.S. On the site already. Love the content. Have learned a lot already.
woah another person my size haha!! So great to hear you're loving the site!! Great to have you I wear a size small wetsuit normally. I have gotten mens XS before in xcel, but iv'e been using crooked suits latley and their mens small has ben working just fine!
Nice vid! Can you stop saying Jersey…it’s NEW JERSEY which you only mentioned once. Jersey, in the Channel Islands U.K is where I’m from and yes most people from Jersey are cool. I don’t know what people are like in New Jersey though 😂
@@LongboardSessions Well, I used to ride a 8’6”? I’m 5’11” and at that time I was 175-ish. Yes, 9 ft and above is normally the standard. Dude, you’re 5’4” 130 pound. So dimension wise, an 8’6” is the same as a 9-O for me.🤷🏻♂️ I just think it’ll allow you to perform better. Unless you’re just basing things off of numbers? Performances is what matters most, correct?
Well it's more to do with the traditional feel rather than performance. Of course I'll be able to rip a bit harder on a smaller board, but I still want that traditional feel of a longboard. Once it starts gettting too light I don't like it as much. However, something smaller like an 8'6 could be a useful board to have in the quiver for sure!
@@LongboardSessions I guess as the saying goes, “different strokes for different folks.” Funny story about that 8’6”. At my home break, I caught a wave (double overhead) and did an off the lip. But, this particular lip was so massive, 5-ish foot thickness, not even joking. That when I landed, with the lip. The sheer impact literally cleaved off 3 feet of the board’s nose… while I was still riding. Sent the nose flying off to the side, as I kept surfing. A very odd sensation to be riding 65% of one’s board on a wave. Just so happened that was my last wave too or as we say in Hawaii “pau-hana” wave.
The video is very nice but also very frustrating…I would give so much to be able to surf like you, and then the Shaper guy says you are a total kook…so what am I then? Surfing really is frustrating sometimes :/
Ah well first of all, every surfer who is having fun will be called a 'kook' at some point, so don't pay any attention to that. Surfing can be intimidating and territorial, but all in all it's no problem at all and most people are super nice! Surround yourself with good people and you'll have no problem. Wayne is a great guy and totally old school so me with my up beat youtube videos threw him off haha. It just goes to show you that judging a person immediately doesn't always work out!
I like the channel. Great videos. I love the coaching idea, but it feels a bit salesy and maybe better positioned to "you can learn this in x, I'll go into details at the end of the video if you're interested". Its your call obviously, but I am here to watch the surfing, so I can only say from my experience that it put me off the video a little (and I stopped watching).
Wayno and Devon are such legends, and such legends to taking you out in Cali and making you a board! They both drop so many good nuggets in your videos that it took me years to figure out on my own. Wayne's description of your videos was classic! I'll at some too, your videos can be a little kooky but your love of surfing, joy, honesty and humility shine through. Don't change it. I've got two boards from Wayno and they are two of my all time favourites. If you ever decide to step down from longboards and explore Fishes hit me up. I've spent the last decade exploring that space and I'm happy to share some knowledge. When you're ready to get a longboard not for nose riding, have Wayno or Michael Miller make you a glider! If you've got any long waves on the east coast it will blow your mind.
Oh man well said!! Yea they are the best.. so many good nuggets in there!! Yea I would love to get into a smaller board.. possibly a mid length? Just need something for the bigger days and I think that will actually help my longboarding. A glider would be nice too!
Thanks for getting back to me Brian. I bought a 10’6” glider in Byron Bay (Donald Takayama) and have had a ball on it!
I know you’re friends with Ben in Australia but if you ever come to the Gold Coast, I’d be happy to introduce you to the crew at Currumbin Alley, and take you surfing at Kirra and other famous spots.
Oh sweet!! Sounds good to me!
As a fellow Jersey surfer just beginning my journey at 30, I really appreciate your informative insights and storytelling. Your videos always manage to blend useful tips with engaging narratives, making them a joy to watch. Hope to see you out in the lineup one day 🤙
Thanks so much Kevin!! dm me on insta and we can get a session in! @longboard_sessions
Wahoo! Awesome to see your progression take a huge leap forward! Suddenly you have this shift to big flowy turns and surf up and down more of the wave face, rather than linear surfing down the line. Looks so nice and really inspiring to go out and do the same.
Thanks so much!! that's exactly what I'm going for hehe
Great watch as always, Brian. I would add to Wayne’s comments re your casual demeanour, that your self-deprecating sense of humour is both engaging and refreshing. Keep it up 🤙✌️
thanks so much!! Yes I do love a good hazing lol
Moving to the shorter board works for you. Looking great! ...and building the quiver too! Pulling the right board for the right conditions is beautiful luxury. (But be careful, it's a universal law that quivers only increase in size. 😂
haha yes Billy! I'll say this now, two is not enough.. lol!
I love this channel, needs more recognition. Keep up your craft sir!!
Thanks so much!! Will do, love doing it!
I love that comparison of your refined bottom turns to Devon’s!! Makes such a difference to the angle you’re taking and speed you’re generating on the wave, so sick!! 🔥🤙
Yes!! It's funny how much speed it takes to get a longboard to the top of the wave fast. Really really loving working on this lately
@@LongboardSessions 100% !!
@@LongboardSessionsHi mate you need to tee up a trip to Oz, Ben would be awesome to see you guys on an arvo session at Tea tree! Keep it up legends!
@@julianatognolo9072this would be sick!!!
You’re videos are helping me so much. As a girl that can’t surf I still go out and flop around for fun till I get it one day 😂.
that's awesome!! So glad they're helping
Your progression is insane!!! Congrats
Thanks so much!!
Brian, looking good on the new board! Keep it going. Devon is the GOAT!
Thanks!! Oh yea he's the best!
that feeling of the bottom turn into cross stepping in the pocket... there´s nothing like it! Awesome video dude.
Almost as good as cross stepping back as your board rises up the wave onto the shoulder and jamming into a cutback when your back foot hits the tail.
@@nickhaisch4277 oooff! YES, you´re right. Landing that feels insane. I need a surf now!
Thanks so much!! Yes its the best!
oh i 2nd this as well haha
Sincerity I believe is the key to beautiful style. I do 20 min yoga meditation and task concentration warm up every surf. I get corralled into the wave making me surf to midlength style. And as a rule I try to fucus on being polite and having good intentions in the bust manly Sydney area line ups. Really like your vibe
Thanks so much Nathan! Yea for sure, gotta be polite and have fun. If all were like that, surfing would be friendlier. Although honestly, I get pretty good vibes most times in NJ and cali
You got style brotha. It finally has come. Been watching since the beginning and you’re finally getting it. Turn hard smack the lip set up the line! Great video
thanks so much Richard! My gosh for real, look at the early videos. They were ugly! haha
Devon is the man, for sure. It’s wild, I tried a CI Log over the summer and it sent me on this exploration of trying new boards. I ended up settling on a different board, but it was those months on the CI that set me up for success.
Loving the content and as soon as I can get footage I’ll be joining the site. Thanks!
Oh sick! I really love trying new boards now. It really gives you a feel for how different some minor changes can be.
We'd love to have you!!
So great to watch you make that connections with the bottom turns. It amazing how much a little adjustment to your style makes you look more effortless and like you've been surfing forever! Keep it up Brian, your doing great!
Thanks so much!! Yea having a blast trying to connect everything. It's not easy! But super fun
@@LongboardSessions for sure! I get it! Only been surfing for 8 months and every time I go out I learn something new! Part of the fun! 🤙
Absolutley
Brian - love it. Enjoy the new board.
Thanks!! really loving it so far
Your'e looking really good..>Devon ...Awesome.
Thanks so much! Yea he's the man!
You are ripping these days, keep up the great work!
And I agree, smaller more pulled in, refined longboards work great out here in fast and steep east coast beachbreak.
I live in Cali but I'm from Jersey....thanks for riding the East Coast!
awesome! I love Cali.. but really love surfing NJ as well
EVERYTHING is based off a quality bottom turn. Shortboarding teaches this from day one, longboarders never need to learn it....but should.
🙌 100% 🤙
Well said!!
Study Rob Machado. He's the master of flow!
@@billytuchscher he definitely is! One of my favourites
Cool, my longboard is a 9'4". It's a all around board and fits my needs in E. Central Florida. I would love to try it in that little point break you were surfing in Ca. I think the 9'3" fits your surfing great!
Hey Brian, love your videos. I’m a surfer living on the Gold Coast, Australia. Been surfing for almost 50 years and switched to long boarding in the last 8. I’ve recently got interested in a unique style of longboard called “the glider”.
Maybe your audience would be interested in exploring the style of board?
Cheers, Mark
Thanks Mark!! Yes a glider would be awesome, however NJ is not the best place for it. I could travel a few hours tho and get some waves that would work well for a glider
Growing up surfing in Hawaii, starting at a young age, I already got it! 😉
thats the way to do it!!
Slater vs. Curren. Who is more beautiful to watch? Can't put it on paper though. You have great skills. Clear your mind and feel the rhythm of the wave.
Yes!! Gotta feel it. That's how you get in the flow. Still working on that hehe
Your surfing is amazing but it’s truly ur charisma makes me stay 🩵🌟🤙
haha awesome!! Thanks so much
Dude, your surfings improving by leaps! Good move going shorter, especially for the beachbreaks. 9'3's arent just for the lighter guys. It's my favorite length in a longboard and I'm 6'1 and 200+ lbs. But I also always surf beachbreaks that are more punchy than soft. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much! Yea loving it so far for our beach breaks. It's been really working well!
Cool thing about Devon is that he looks like he’s from the era when all boards were long and it was just “surfing”, not “longboarding”. Tail to tip is a great way of putting it. I really enjoy watching clips of guys like Barry Kanaiaupuni, Phil Edwards and Nat Young from those days
Oh yea for sure. I love Nat young's style!
Awesome! So sick and fun to watch the gears click!
Would love to get a log sesh with you and pick you mind on surfing 🤙
thanks!! You in jersey?
@@LongboardSessions I am going to be next weekend! But I’m in Massachusetts
Bro love seeing your videos, some sick bottom turns and rail grabs!! I seen you surf Monmouth county, I love my custom log from my buddy who’s a local shaper, I’ll look out for ya in the lineup🤙🏼
And that shaper was right, jersey people are cool
Nice!! See you out there. I can't wait to get back out
Looking good! Glad you went with the 9'2"!
thanks! Yea me too haha
So glad, wanted to tell you thru the screen to go shorter than 9 '6" , at 150lb or less like us, that extra board slows us down by large %'s every turn...my opinion of course. Great riding, howdy from NH. Come on up, I'm a block from Cinnamon Rainbows.
haha well there you go! I do feel a ton faster on this thing
@@LongboardSessions what are the dimensions of your 9’2? We’re the same weight and height 😅 Surfing on a mid length but looking to get a 9’2 or a 9’4.
Haha, solid video AND you didnt use devon or wayne as clickbait in any manner. Classy classy vid.
haha thanks!!
So... how about you and Ben doing a comparison of the CI log to the Slasher lo pro? Love to see that 😎
Now that's a good video idea!!
Don't mistake Devon's bottom turns as simply tools of speed. It's about the correct amount of speed to: be in the correct position and enable your next maneuver. Note how he mixes them. When you're longboarding you're reacting far more in the future than you would with a short board, it's proactive vs reactive due to the nature of the board. For example you need to stay in the pocket and have too much speed, he flicks the bottom turn to drop speed, going for a carve or top turn, don't flick on the pivot to keep speed which you need through the turn. Also anything involving trim correction or nose movements after the bottom turn you're usually going to use the bottom turn as a stall. You can see him do it often.
The most obvious thing to me from watching you surf is your too focused on the nose and forward half of your board, you need to work on back stepping a step or two and use the tail more. Once you've got that waxed a whole new dimension unfolds.
Your nose work and forward cross steps are great, especially backhand which is far harder. Just use the tail more.
Solid!
Thanks James!
If I may offer you a simple solution that will take you where you’re looking to go? Look where you want to go one step ahead of where you are. Before you get to the bottom of your bottom turn, you should be looking at the top of the section you’re turning into. On your way up, you should be turning your head back towards the beach. These head movements will, in turn, move your shoulders and eventually your torso and legs will follow.
In one of the clips, you appear to be looking at the nose of your board on your way to a cutback, rather than spotting the next section of the wave, and it stalled you out a bit. You might be too focused on “doing the trick,” where you’re thinking about what your board is doing or if your feet are in the right position, rather than looking where to go next.
Admittedly, these are definitely more short board techniques for riding waves, where you’re doing faster rail-to-rail transfers and tighter turns. But, if you notice how your friend who you’re trying to emulate rides, he’s riding that 9’3” like it’s a 5’6”. He definitely takes his short board skills and uses them on that log.
Anyway, i hope this makes sense and it helps. Cheers and happy surfing!
wow you are so completely correct! Iv'e really noticed this when practicing off the tops. You for sure have to be looking at the top of the wave while you bottom turn. Still working on this, but staying ahead of the wave is going to be a game changer for me.
Fantastic video brian and ill will check the website out !!
Can i ask you how often do you get in ? I am in a similar situation to you 3 kids full time work and 1 hr drive to beach
glad im not the only one missing points on stance 😂 1:11
haha yes!! We have the opposite problem tho
What thickness wetsuit do you wear?
11:16 is my favorite moment
Timed PERFECTLY with the music 🤌👌
Just kidding 14:52 is my new favorite moment 🥹
haha thanks bro!! Thanks for noticing
Oh wow! You're basically similar to me in size. I am 5'4" 139. Wanted to ask what size wetsuit you wear?
P.S. On the site already. Love the content. Have learned a lot already.
woah another person my size haha!! So great to hear you're loving the site!! Great to have you
I wear a size small wetsuit normally. I have gotten mens XS before in xcel, but iv'e been using crooked suits latley and their mens small has ben working just fine!
🤙🤙🤙🤙
I'm more inclined to Dino Miranda's style and free flowing approach to Longboard surfing. Not rules!
Oh i'll have to check him out!
cool
Thanks!!
Nice vid!! but longboarding without a leash quite wrong i would say...
Thanks!! Oh yea? How so?
If there is a crowd yeah but otherwise like this sesh no.
Took you long enough 😂
tell me about it!
Nice vid! Can you stop saying Jersey…it’s NEW JERSEY which you only mentioned once. Jersey, in the Channel Islands U.K is where I’m from and yes most people from Jersey are cool. I don’t know what people are like in New Jersey though 😂
haha! Well now I just wanna keep sayin 'jersey'... you're playing into my rebellious nature!!! haha
For your height and weight. I would definitely recommend going down a foot. 8’6” is calling your name…
haha! Well 8'6 is way too small.. venturing out of longboard territory here.
@@LongboardSessions Well, I used to ride a 8’6”? I’m 5’11” and at that time I was 175-ish. Yes, 9 ft and above is normally the standard. Dude, you’re 5’4” 130 pound. So dimension wise, an 8’6” is the same as a 9-O for me.🤷🏻♂️ I just think it’ll allow you to perform better. Unless you’re just basing things off of numbers? Performances is what matters most, correct?
Well it's more to do with the traditional feel rather than performance. Of course I'll be able to rip a bit harder on a smaller board, but I still want that traditional feel of a longboard. Once it starts gettting too light I don't like it as much. However, something smaller like an 8'6 could be a useful board to have in the quiver for sure!
@@LongboardSessions I guess as the saying goes, “different strokes for different folks.” Funny story about that 8’6”. At my home break, I caught a wave (double overhead) and did an off the lip. But, this particular lip was so massive, 5-ish foot thickness, not even joking. That when I landed, with the lip. The sheer impact literally cleaved off 3 feet of the board’s nose… while I was still riding. Sent the nose flying off to the side, as I kept surfing. A very odd sensation to be riding 65% of one’s board on a wave. Just so happened that was my last wave too or as we say in Hawaii “pau-hana” wave.
@@GreggsonWong haha that's insane!! woulda been sick to have that on video!
The video is very nice but also very frustrating…I would give so much to be able to surf like you, and then the Shaper guy says you are a total kook…so what am I then? Surfing really is frustrating sometimes :/
Ah well first of all, every surfer who is having fun will be called a 'kook' at some point, so don't pay any attention to that. Surfing can be intimidating and territorial, but all in all it's no problem at all and most people are super nice! Surround yourself with good people and you'll have no problem. Wayne is a great guy and totally old school so me with my up beat youtube videos threw him off haha. It just goes to show you that judging a person immediately doesn't always work out!
Underground secret...Devon isn't as sick as Jimmy Gamboa, Tyler Warren, or Dane Peterson
On a log, sure....Watch him on the CI Mid...it was made for his style and flow.
Wow, I can't believe how many LBers you brought together in this one video, but if you're a "kook", then I don't know what or who I am anymore.🤷♀️
haha!! Hey, those of us who have fun.. we're all kooks. In a good way
Great ! I hope u r now going to let us be with these nose riding non sense! Can we have a closure NOW??!
haha yes! I'm an all around surfer now. In my mind atleast haha
I like the channel. Great videos. I love the coaching idea, but it feels a bit salesy and maybe better positioned to "you can learn this in x, I'll go into details at the end of the video if you're interested".
Its your call obviously, but I am here to watch the surfing, so I can only say from my experience that it put me off the video a little (and I stopped watching).
Thanks Charles! Definitely don't want to be salesy! That's my worst nightmare haha. I'll keep refining