Category: Waves
Level of difficulty: Level 4 (from 4)
Special characteristics
A backside aerial is a jump with a wing while riding a wave. Take-off and landing take place in the same wave. Backside means that the back is facing the wave.
There are two ways to perform a backside aerial: with a flagged wing or a powered up wing.
Here you can see the version with a powered up wing: The wing is held with both hands. You can use the wing’s lift to jump very high on a backside aerial.
In the flagged version, you let the wing drift while riding the wave, holding it with one hand at the leading edge handle.
These examples show how to jump the backside aerial with a powered up wing:
