How to do an invert air.
1st. -Make sure you get a wave that is going
to give you some speed the more the better. If the wave
has a wedge in it or has a steep take off
or has some size you will be able to generate
speed a lot easier.
2nd. -Drive off the power pocket of the wave
to use what ever speed the wave has. Some time the
power pocket is at the bottom and some times it is
at the top. Where depends on the type of wave. A wedge,
or really steep wave has a power pocket more at the bottom
which lets you drive off your bottom turn towards the lip
and regular waves have the power pockets higher
up and you have to stay high and race towards the lip
from there.
3rd. -You are racing towards the lip with all the
speed the wave can give you.
Have to see where the lip is pitching and aim at it.
It helps to hit the lip at the same moment it throws out.
To early and you go flying off the back, to late you get
stuck in the lip and sent to the bottom, but if you
hit it just right you get sent soaring in to the
flats like a champ.
4th. -You hit the lip at just the right time now and throw
you body and board off of the lip and in to the air.
5th. -Now is the right time to tweak your board and
body in to a inverted position, this means the bottom
skin of your board should be facing straight up towards
the sky and your head should be looking down to where
you intend on landing.
6th. -As you land, try and land on the foam if
you can to cushion your landing, or if you get thrown in
to the flats like you want, relax and hold on, flatten
out as you hit the water so the shock is absorbed equally
by the whole board.
Advanced tips - once you have mastered the regular
invert try letting the wave throw your body out
at a 180 degree angle as you invert and this will make
the move look even more radical.
Now go out and hit some lips and practice boosting big!