Floater in Surfing

Reviewer The best-taught floater video here by a wide margin - shows you exactly what right and wrong look like.

Moderator This is a dedicated, multi-wave breakdown of frontside floaters specifically - nothing else. Noel walks through real clips, isolates one variable (trailing arm position), and even shows a failure case on the same maneuver.

Reviewer Clean, structured, and correct - exactly what you want in a maneuver breakdown.

Moderator This is a structured, dedicated lesson on the floater specifically - why you'd use one (beat sections, create flow, generate speed), and three concrete focus areas for executing it. Squarely on-topic, no tangents.

Reviewer Best-structured floater lesson here — three phases, real safety notes, tells you to practice in the foam first.

Moderator Entirely about the floater, broken into three clean phases — prep, float, landing — with nothing else sharing the runtime.

Reviewer Covers the technique AND the bail-out call - that's the part people usually skip.

Moderator Cleanly divides the floater into preparation, floatation and landing and stays on that structure the entire time.

Reviewer Explains the why before the how - this is real coaching.

Moderator Structured tutorial explicitly building toward the floater as the first maneuver for a 'level 3' surfer. On topic start to finish.

Reviewer Thorough and credible: lip timing, weight, body rotation and keeping speed on the way down. A lot to chew on.

Moderator Portuguese-language deep dive on the frontside floater: timing and wave reading, when to go for it, staying on the lip, weight distribution, front foot as a rudder, then head, shoulder and front hand turning toward the beach to come back down with speed. Squarely on the floater.

Reviewer Tight, accurate coaching with a drill to build hang time. Exactly what you need to start landing floaters.

Moderator Coaching clip entirely on the floater for regular footers: why you'd use it (link sections without bleeding speed), flat entry, body position on the foam, head and shoulders turning to the beach, compressing on landing. Squarely on the sub-skill.

Reviewer The clearest, most complete floater lesson here — start in the whitewash, exactly right.

Moderator Structured entirely around the floater — breaks it into preparation, floating and landing, and never wanders off topic.

Reviewer Sharp insight on approach angle - just know it's one piece of the floater puzzle, not the whole thing.

Moderator Squarely about the floater - specifically the approach positioning, which is one of the most important and least obvious parts of setting one up. On-topic and precise.

Reviewer Three cues that matter - shallow bottom turn, light feet, compressed landing - each with the reason why.

Moderator All about the floater: why you throw one (beat a section, create flow, keep speed down the line) and three execution points - a shallow bottom turn, staying light across the lip, and absorbing the landing in a compressed stance. Squarely on the maneuver.

Reviewer Clear, correct, and actually usable, good floater lesson.

Moderator Exactly on target, a dedicated 'how to do a floater' walkthrough broken into prep, floating, and landing phases. This is the core teaching resource type this catalog wants.

Reviewer Good nuance if you already know the vocabulary — not for total beginners.

Moderator All floater — momentum management, entry point on the wave, foot positioning options, backside vs frontside, what comes after. Nothing else in the mix.

Reviewer Real coaching cues here, not just 'catch some speed and go for it.'

Moderator Entirely about the floater — entry, line on the wave, exit options, weight transition on the way down. Nothing else competing for attention.

Reviewer Trailing-arm cue is worth the watch — some of the runtime's a sales pitch for the paid series though.

Moderator Same lesson as the regular-footer version, mirrored for goofy stance — the available transcript is identical, so the same judgment applies: squarely backside floater technique.

Reviewer Trailing-arm cue is worth the watch — some of the runtime's a sales pitch for the paid series though.

Moderator Squarely about backside floaters specifically — a real variant of the move, not a tangent. Weight distribution, arm position, why it matters, all floater.

Reviewer Real pro insight, just rambled rather than taught step by step.

Moderator This is entirely a pro surfer breaking down the floater - momentum management going in, weight distribution while up on it, and the two ways to exit. No digressions.

Reviewer The jump analogy for compression-extension is genuinely useful — worth watching for that alone.

Moderator Core subject is choosing the high line and floating the breaking section instead of going around — that's the floater. Splits some time with foam climbs as a related move, so not 100% pure, but the floater is clearly the throughline.

Moderator Spanish-language lesson from Artsurfcamp, entirely on the floater: what it's for (riding over the lip to link to the next wall), then speed, weight balanced over both feet, eyes to the base of the wave and landing ahead of the whitewater with the knees bent. Squarely on the sub-skill.

Reviewer Clear, accurate basics (speed, balance, eyes on the landing). Short on detail, but a good first look.

Reviewer Solid entry cues, doesn't cover the landing.

Moderator Direct answer to a specific question about floaters on a longboard through closing sections. Everything said is about executing the floater.

Reviewer Accurate and complete, but generic - no real coaching feel to it.

Moderator This defines the floater outright and walks the full sequence - approach speed, guiding the board onto the lip, counterbalancing on top, riding it out, and landing. Entirely on topic, no digressions.

Reviewer Solid cues, just a bit thin as a full lesson.

Moderator Squarely a floater tutorial -- opening the shoulders into the section, compressing on the way down, riding it out. This is the actual named skill on the backhand.

Reviewer Good backside-specific cues, but brief and assumes you already have the frontside version down.

Moderator Squarely about the backhand/backside floater specifically - shoulder opening into the section, chest parallel to the wave, compressing low, and resetting for the next turn. Demonstrated as a dry-land walkthrough rather than real wave footage, but the content stays on topic throughout.

Reviewer Gets the sequence right but doesn't go any deeper than that.

Moderator Short and entirely on-topic - why you'd floater, then the actual sequence: open shoulders into the section, go light onto the lip, compress, hold steady, compress out. The same lines repeat almost verbatim, likely a replay in the video, but there's no digression from the floater itself.

Moderator Short French-language rundown on the floater: sliding across the top of the foam, timing, reading the wave to pick the moment, taking speed up to the lip and staying on it as long as you can. All floater, no detours.

Reviewer Right ideas (timing, reading the wave, staying on the lip) but it stays at pointer level with no mechanics.

Reviewer Technical and clearly coach-taught, worth sitting through the SUP framing.

Moderator It's a real, substantial breakdown of the floater, but it shares screen time with end-section turns as a separate maneuver, and it's SUP surfing specifically — the paddle-bracing and board length change things a bit versus a standard shortboard floater.

Reviewer One real tip in here, but it's over before it gets going.

Moderator Short, but every sentence is about the floater — what it is, timing, approach from the middle of the wave rather than out of a bottom turn for enough momentum. Nothing else competing for time.

Moderator A pro talking floaters: they're a functional maneuver that suits certain waves, you keep speed with the back of the wave to set up the next bottom turn, they're hard to stick when it's big, and these days they're more of a transition move than a wave-ender. Entirely about floaters, though it's discussion rather than step-by-step.

Reviewer Useful context on when and why to throw a floater, but he talks around the move instead of breaking it down.

Reviewer One good tip, then it's over before it gets going.

Moderator Short, but every sentence is about the floater specifically — what it is and how to set it up.

Reviewer Defines the move, doesn't teach you how to do it.

Moderator Title and caption both name the floater directly, and the caption opens with an actual definition of the maneuver. It's built around Andy Irons doing a floater and criss-cross - right skill, right sport.

Reviewer Great for appreciating floaters, useless for learning to do one.

Moderator This is definitionally about the floater - what it is, why surfers use it, what judges look for - so it's squarely on topic even though it's a broadcast piece, not a lesson.

Reviewer Tells you why the floater matters, not how to do one. You'd still be guessing on your first attempt.

Moderator Short talk-over on why the floater matters: it teaches you the top of the wave, sets up the 360, and gives you a way to pivot off the lip when you're losing the wave and get back into the push. Squarely about the floater, but it's the why, not the how.

Reviewer Decent intro tip, but you don't see it actually work.

Moderator Opens with an actual, fairly clean rundown of the floater steps (guide the board up with the front foot, compress, counterbalance, spot the landing) before turning into a vlog of him failing to land one in freezing conditions.

Moderator Short clip of a lofty floater over a ledge: the board riding high across the top of a breaking section, briefly on whitewater, then back down. Squarely a floater. At this length it's more demo than walkthrough.

Reviewer Shows what a high floater looks like, but it's too short to teach entry, body position or landing.

Reviewer Too short to really teach it — a taste, not a lesson.

Moderator No transcript, just a 22s clip, but title/caption line up exactly with the skill — 'surf floater technique', timing and board control across a breaking section. Metadata is squarely on-topic even without seeing the footage, so I won't punish it for missing a transcript.

Reviewer Tells you what a floater is, not how to actually do one.

Moderator Squarely about the floater from the title down, no digressions.