Once you’ve dialled in the carve up, next comes the moment you throw onto the sail and hope beyond measure that you don’t flop like a dead fish onto you sail and put your knee through it.

There’s only one stage here:

1. Punch forward and down super hard with you front hand. Don’t try to over complicate this part. Initially we’re just trying to get the sail to backwind and fling you off backwards. The typical shaka picture you will see looks a lot like the sail is put towards the tail of the board but this not the case. Just like not carving enough if you put the sail to the back it will not backwind. Once you manage to get the boost it’s all about…