Discipline the best known and most popular practice on boards of 1.50 m to 2.00 m with the nose is pointed. In competition, it is to make figures including the difficulty and quality of execution determines the competitor's score. The surfer tends to overlap (ride in English) wave with her "face", following the direction of the wave and preceding it. It is surfing the wave perpendicular to his face at first (take-off) to pick up speed. In some spots, the power of waves can surf inside the roll. This figure, called tube is one of the most spectacular surfing.
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