Words: Keith Lyman Photo: Spencer Smith A heelside melon poke frontside spin is an absolute crowd-pleaser, especially if you take it huge and into the flats. It's also a perfect warm-up trick that you can take really big and, if properly styled out, you can make look pretty sick...

Frontside Boardslide
1. For slides like these two, it helps to start from the middle of the wakes and try to slide on the wake, and then work your way to starting on the outside of the wakes to slide the lip...

Don't tell me you didn't sense this one coming. If you didn't then it is time that you paid a little more attention to how you describe moves. There are plenty of people including those that should know better that are abusing the terms frontside and backside...

The frontside 5 is the natural move to learn after you've gone through the spectrum of 180s and 360s. Actually, for some people, it's easier than landing a frontside 3 because you don't have to stop the momentum your body's gained in the air...

Frontside 360s are actually easier to learn than the backside version, especially for someone with a strong frontside 180, because it's a more natural rotation. However, you still want to learn this trick wake to wake as well...

Unfortunately, most people think that being able to do a flip makes you a good wakeboarder. They're wrong. But the fact remains that inverted tricks are the moves that blow the non-wakeboarder's mind.

"Everyone wants to learn a roll" says P...