I’ve never done a backwind 360 but I wanted to post Pete’s beautiful capture of TJ’s effortless demoing of one at LA Beach.

Not for the fainthearted. You need to be able to ride backwinded, hold speed through a 360 degree carve and keep the pitch stable throughout.

He uses the speed from a little lump to get started. The wind is blowing on to the back of his left shoulder in the first shot. He carves downwind rolling forward on his toes whilst keeping the wing powered up. Weight is forward.

He keeps carving and when the wing goes weightless he brings the wing back and pulls in with the rear hand to get backwinded. He maintains carving radius and height on the mast to keep speed up.

He uses the wingtip for a quick pivot to bring the board around and the sail into the wind. Then finds power in some little lumps to glide into shore.

This is tricky at LA because the wind on this day would have been shadowy, blowing over East Point. So there ya go. Don’t try this at home.