How to do a Layback Snap with Pancho Sullivan

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Want to learn how to surf better? Learn from the world's best through Surfline's Pro Tips, a complete how-to series created to improve your surfing skills. In this episode, we go over layback snaps with the layback legend, Pancho Sullivan. • Become a better surfer. Watch more episodes: • Surfline Pro Tips • Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/surfline... • Transcription: • You guys gonna go for a surf? Cool. Aloha, my name is Pancho Sullivan. Today we're gonna be talking about how to perform a lay back snap. It’s a power maneuver but you know it's got so many different applications to mix it up the monotony of just doing a basic carve off the top. The entire maneuver is set up, you know, through the bottom turn. As you're going up you pick your spot on the lip. When you pick the spot that you want to do your turn, just like a normal reentry you kind of pick a spot on the face of the wave, you know, usually under the lips say a foot or maybe even two. • As you go into the turn your just shifting so hard from your bottom turn of all that that weight coming off of • your back foot. You kind of want to drive through that and then you let your back arm fall back and then really push with your legs and push the board away from you. It's finding the right pressure that you can apply to the board and still be able to hold the rail in and can have the board come back up under your feet. As you complete the turn you always want to finish up where the board ends up back up underneath you and your shoulders are square over the top of the stringer and then try to project out of it. Yeah it's a turn that you can apply into all types of waves and I guess it's considered more of an old-school move but still see a lot of guys doing them and it's a progressive maneuver, you know, with an old-school flair. • I guess that's where the term laid-back comes into play as when you kind of rotate your upper body, your torso, in the opposite direction that your legs and the board's going so you know your sort of laying back on the face of the wave and pushing the rail out away from you and you can really lay it out or you can stay a little tighter over the top of your board and you can really toy with the technique a little bit and different variations to the angles and the length of the turn. I think when it comes to the laid-back snap i think repetition is probably the key. Repetition and just sticking with the maneuver and continuing to try it. And don't be afraid to go into the turn and look a little goofy because eventually you iron out the kinks and you will figure out like exactly what kind of pressure you can apply to • that turn. • Well thanks for watching Surfline’s Trick Tips. Push the limits and keep having fun. That's what it's all about! • -Pancho Sullivan

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