Tail slides love steep waves. The maneuver changed competitive surfing and also the way shapers designed surfboards. Let’s drift into the mechanics of a classic backside tailslide. Showing the fins while attacking the wave lip. It’s quite impossible not to love the move, whether you’re watching it from the beach or from the line-up. Tail slides are the salt and pepper of intermediate-to-advanced surfing. If you never tried it, then wait for a traditional three-to-five foot wave with enough power and face to make you slide off the lip. The key moment is definitely the bottom turn.

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How to do a backside tailslide in surfing

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