Tips

[.boh]

been frothing over DK ever since i started bboarding, but never really gave it a go, any attempt i have made have been pretty sh!t...just wondering if anyone could throw some tips my way? cheers

[QReuCk]

Yep, first tip will look like a bit retarded, but taking off on your board won't be any easier in the water that it is in your living room. So don't be affraid to look like a kook while nobody is looking at you and practice on a dry floor with fins on your feet. Be sure your knee and front foot land each time where you want them to land.
After you're confident you can take off and drop the knee, practice it a lot. Especially when waves are not so good. Even if the wave closes out, make the drop and start a bottom turn. It won't make the wave, but it will teach you a thing or two in the process. If you want to improve take not so good days as good opportunities to improve.
For practicing turns, better to choose a not too fast and not too hollow wave first, with easy take off, as you will want to have a lot of opportunities to turn.

[ATV]

this is no joke but riding a mini sk8 board helps big time with balance and turns due to the board being so small that you cant use the kick like a normal board so your forced into using hips down to your knees for steering

[.boh]

yeh cheers, i live in perth and rarely get the chance to go down south so not so good days are most day for me at my local metro beach. also i have a board shaped for prone, is it worth get a versatile or even a DK board to learn on, or will the prone board be good enough?

[captain_awesome]

you should be fine on a prone board, i'm using a winny but he does both so mine might be considered versatile

[ScottyT]

If you have a tramp, use that. Jump really high then when you;re in the air, put the board under you bounce down on the tramp with it. It helps me alot with balance when DKing, also pretty fun. Also, when waves are crumbly, try DKing, you may look like a kook but it all comes in practice.

[captain_awesome]

even Dk run ins maybe?

[.boh]

cheers for the tips, ive got a few smaller days coming up so i will see how i go

[captain_awesome]

yeah if you can get up consistently there and get a good technique going it should follow you in the bigger days, but i'm no expert so can't tell you anything on technique

[.boh]

i used to surf and do every now and then but still havent really given DK a crack, i look forward to many nose-dives!

[ScottyT]

They are if you're not on reef, try practice on beachies if you dont like eating it

[sundaytripz]

Been trying to teach myself how to rep the knee the past few weeks. I'm pretty good at kooking it so far Rubbish at getting up really - think I need to give this lounge room trick a go haha.