Wakeboard terms, defined.

Riding with your non-dominant foot forward instead of your natural stance - the opposite of your normal riding position.

The two edges of your wakeboard. Heelside is the edge under your heels - leaning back against the pull of the cable digs it in. Toeside is the edge under your toes, engaged by leaning your chest over the board. Edge control decides your line, your speed into features, and the pop you get off the water.

The direction of a spin or slide where your chest opens first towards the rotation or the obstacle - usually abbreviated FS, as in FS 180. Naming the direction matters because a trick you have dialled frontside is close to new again backside.

The opposite direction to frontside - your back leads into the rotation or the obstacle, abbreviated BS, as in BS 360. Backside spins and slides feel blinder than their frontside twins, because for part of the rotation you cannot see where you are going.

A 90-degree slide you get onto by sweeping the nose over the obstacle - you rotate towards the feature and land on it already perpendicular, with the rail or box between your feet. Paired with the edge you approached on it gives you two of the four slide names you'll hear at the park: backboard and frontboard.

The same 90-degree slide position as a boardslide, reached the other way round - the tail crosses the obstacle, so you pop up and over the rail and come down onto it from the far side. On a wide box the two barely feel different; on a narrow rail the lipslide is the bigger commitment, because you land blind on something a few inches wide. Its two park names are front lip and back lip.

A ramp-shaped obstacle at a cable park that launches you into the air. Kickers come in different sizes and are the main way to learn jumps, grabs and spins with a predictable takeoff, as opposed to hitting the wake behind a boat.

A jump off flat water with no ramp, done by loading pressure on the tail and popping the board up out of the water. It's the wakeboard version of the skateboard ollie and the foundation for flat-water tricks like ollie 180s.