Frontside snaps are a classic intermediate surfing maneuver in which the surfer comes off the bottom turn, quickly attacks the lip in the right section and keeps riding the wave face. Contemporary surfing requires speed, power, and flow. After understanding how a wave should be ridden, surfers start improving their bottom turns and begin working on what the ride has to offer. Snaps are sudden changes in direction. In the last decades, surfers added subtle nuances to create the off-the-lip or off-the-tops, the closeout re-entries, the tailslides, and the frontside gouges. They all share a common recipe that includes speed, momentum, pivoting and body adjustment.

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How to do a frontside snap in surfing

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