Backside Air

Category: Jumps
Level of difficulty: Level 3 (from 4)

Special characteristics:

• this trick is a jump

Description

A backside air is a small jump in which you jump a 90-degree turn: Jump out of a carved turn to windward, landing on a slight downwind course.

Basically like a backside aerial, which you can also jump on flat water when wing foiling. It’s also good training for the raley, where this movement is performed in a much more extreme way.

Here you can find examples of backside air:

Videos

• Backside aerial on flatwater
• Backside aerial in flat water