How to do a Standard Frontside Air with Cory Lopez

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Transcription:

I’m Cory Lopez and you're watching Surfline’s Trick Tips. Today I'll be talking about the standard frontside air. Definitely speed is crucial to every air and obviously with this one, the more speed the higher you're going
to get. So basically you just want to eye up that section where its going to be vert. Your going to launch into the air, you're hitting up off that back foot and and sucking that front foot up into your body, into your chest and then bring your board with you.

You want to stay over your board is one of the main things. You want to try and keep your weight over your board so you can eye the landing up. That's one of the keys is getting up over your board, eye the landing, know that you're not going to land in the flats. If you land in the flats, you know some bad things can happen. You can break your board. You can break yourself.
So you definitely want to land on top of the wave on the whitewash ball. Hopefully it's already broken through and it's nice and soft and you get a nice landing on top of it.

I always consider it to be something like doing an ollie on a skateboard where you're just going up and you're using your springs. You're just kind of jumping on your surfboard. You are jumping with your surfboard up into the
Air. I usually have maneuvers in my mind that I want to do that day. When its in my mind that I want to do big airs, obviously I'm starting to hunt those sections and I'll pass by section where I can do turns. I'm looking just for that air sections that just wants me to just do an air off of it.

The stock air, the standard air, is the perfect starting point for any air.
First you have to learn how to get that lift off the lip and get the speed. Learn to lift, learn to ollie, kind of the kick it up you know to get the air. Once you learn this maneuver, then you're going to realize that if I kick my tail a little bit as I'm doing that initial ollie, then I'll be able to spin to an air reverse or obviously the grabs are even easier than that.

Thanks for watching Surfline’s Trick Tips and get out there to launch!

-Cory Lopez