Backside Aerial

Category: Waves
Level of difficulty: Level 4 (from 4)

Special characteristics:

• this trick is a jump
• one handed trick

Description

A backside aerial is a jump with a flagged wing while riding a wave. Take-off and landing take place in the same wave. Backside means that the back is facing the wave.

These examples show how to jump the backside aerial.

Videos

• Airtime on a sideshore wave ride with Arthur Thébault