So we're in the pool in El Salvador and we're going to practice learning how to duck dive and we got a bunch of different amigas here writing different sizes of surfboards. So we're going to experiment with what's the biggest surfboard that you can actually duck dive and also working on technique how to do it. Boom! So the key to a good duck dive. Number one, you need to have some speed. That's going to make it easier. Number two, it's a timing thing where you do it on the wave and then it's also the physical aspect where you put your foot on the back of the board and that's all those things are going to change a little bit based on the size of your surfboard. I have this little tiny really cute 5'4 and it duck dives really, really easily. So you want to get up some speed? You want to have your hands just kind of like right at your shoulder. The first step is to push down and I like to keep my knee on the board to kind of fold the board like help it push down like you push down with your hands and then you keeping it underneath you with your knee and then once you get down to the depth and you push through with whatever reaches like I use these little tiny boards so a lot of time I'm pushing with my shin right here and then if I want to go really deep then I'll put my foot on there but a lot of times if I'm being lazy and it's not really that big a wave I'm just pushing my shin. And if I had a longer board and my foot reached the edge of board then I would always push the limit and then another thing that we've seen girls do that doesn't really work that well is they think they got to get the foot all up and they go for their duck dive and they like spread the leg out and then the board goes off like that so those girls I tell them to keep your knees in the middle of the board and then get your foot off the mirror. So now that you got your body right let's talk about timing. What you want to do is get some speed up and start your duck dive soon enough that you can get underwater before the wave hits you. You want to get underneath the white wash so that it can go over you and you come up on the other side. If you start the duck dive too late the wave hits you before you have a chance to get deep enough. If the wave hasn't broken yet if it's just cresting at the top you can wait for the last minute and just kind of duck dive underneath the lip but if you're dealing with white wash you got to start a little bit sooner so you can get all the way underneath it. The white wash passes over you and you come up on the other side. Here are a few examples of some amigas giving it a try and we can talk about what's going wrong. Here's an amiga that's pushing down nicely with her hands but she's not following through with her leg so the board doesn't scoop through the wave very nicely. Yeah really good push down but there's no follow through then the board just goes that way. This is what you want the board to do underwater. Scoop down and then come back up on the other side of the wave. This amiga is pushing down really nicely she's scooping through with her leg but her upper body's not getting down to the depth where the board is so even though the board is deep her body's not getting underneath the white wash. Another thing that will help your duck dive be more awesome is keeping your eyes open. Probably not recommended if the water's super gross or if it's a little tiny white wash on the inside with tons of sand but if you're outside and there's a big wave coming keeping your eyes open will help you because the white wash is not uniform. It's not like a complete wall of darkness. There's like patches of more turbulent water and then there's patches of more airy water and you can actually move yourself into the lighter patches and avoid some of the some of the force. Yeah you can avoid some of the force of the wave if you look for it and if worst case scenario the big force is going to hit you at least you see it coming and kind of race boring. I don't wear contacts but Jackie does and Jackie says that she still opens her eyes underwater and very rarely loses a contact. So a lot of girls come down on retreats and they say I really want to learn how to duck dive but then they bring these like really big boards. This is a six-four so it's super hard to duck dive a board like this like even for me it's really challenging and for someone who's not going to duck diving it's going to be nearly impossible so keep that in mind the problem might be useful but just for fun we'll try and duck dive it in the pool see if I can make it go under. So what makes it more difficult is that the width it's just you say point it the length of the width it's the volume on board like a little tiny board that barely floats you can duck dive super easy but a big floaty board just by definition doesn't go underwater very well. So one thing you can do if you do have a big board you really want to try to duck dive it to get it underneath you can scoop it. Yeah because it's hard you have a big board on the water if you push this down it doesn't go because it's got all this volume on the water so you're displacing all this water to make it go under just hard but if you tilt it then you'll go under much easier so if I'm in it if I was out serving and I wanted to try and duck dive this board I would tilt it to scoop it and then fall if you like and that's how you duck dive. Thank you thank you now you're going to need some long boards because Jackie's going to do a how to try to roll alright try to roll really cr橘mon