How to do a Backside Air Reverse with Chris Ward

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Transcription:
Hi I'm Chris Ward and you’re watching Surfline’s Trick Tips. We're going to be talking about backside air reverses. The best conditions and the best waves to do a backside air reverse are wedgie, peaky waves. You want to find the section and then kind of wait for it to like jump up. If it's not jumping up, if it's kind of slopy, you're not going to get much air and it's going to turn into a chop hop. I wouldn't recommend doing chop hops all day long so find the section and you can blast.
Take off and gradually do like a mid-face bottom turn and maybe a little pump in between. So you actually want to wind up as you're doing a mid-face bottom turn and then BAM you hit it. So at this time when you hit the section you want to jump, or Ollie, as well so you go with your board and you let your board carry underneath you. Your board has to always kind of be inverted for this maneuver otherwise you're going to do a spin and your board is not. So by the time you're launching, what you want to do is keep your board underneath you and then reach to your height and reach with your arms to get the height and you want to kick your back foot out to get the rotation and spin your body 180 degrees. The more tucked you are in this maneuver the more chances are of you pulling it.
When you're up midair you're rotating your body, you want to control your board by widening your stance and getting over your board and also stomp your tail under the whitewash or on to the top of the lip. So you want to stomp it and then you release, then it's all flow after that. So right when you take off you want to get your momentum up and over the lip, your body over your board, and your rotation spun, and your landing gear down.
A lot of common mistakes is hitting the section too late. When you hit the section you have to make sure that you carry your speed and your momentum otherwise if you hit the section with no speed and momentum, you're not going to get the height and you're not going to get the rotation. You kind of want to keep this maneuver on the transition of the wave or landing on the whitewash to get a smooth landing or cushion, otherwise you're going to land in the flats and that is not a good idea.
Thanks for watching Surfline’s Trick Tips, I will see you out in the water and hopefully you don't land on me.
-Chris Ward

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wardo is an idol

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Then you have bad morals

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Love ya Wardo!

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Chop Hop, i'm going to start calling my brother that... lol

[@whatup9728]

only read your msg after i posted mine they were all chop hops hey

[@jimihendrixx11]

Great - I think only pro level surfers can actually do this😅

[@whatup9728]

every one a chop hop

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whats with the fuckin music

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bluemark0001 ahahahaha