Frontside

Frontside and backside are surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding terms that are used to describe how a person approaches an obstacle or performs a certain trick.

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The names frontside and backside originate from surfing where they mean the direction the surfer is facing while surfing a wave. If the surfer is facing the wave, he is surfing frontside, otherwise he is surfing backside. The terms forehand and backhand are synonyms for frontside and backside but they are only used in surfing.

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Surfing: :See World Wide Web for "surfing" the web; see also Windsurfing...

Skateboarding: Skateboarding is the act of rolling on or interacting with a skateboard. Someone who skateboards is a skater (or skateboarder or most fully skateboard rider), though the shortest term may also refer to someone ice skating or roller skating....

Snowboarding: Snowboarding is a boardsport on snow similar to skiing, but came about as an idea for a combination of surfing and skateboarding. Snowboarding is an increasingly common winter sport throughout the world where participants strap a composite board to their feet and slide down a snow-covered mountain....