Total Involvement
"Everytime you say aerial surfing, people connect it with re-entries, but I think tube riding has a lot more space, or free flight, than re-entries. To drop into the tube itself—especially if it's a really sucking backdoor—you can almost fly. You DO fly."
"Once you go into a backdoor, you've got to keep that pressure on your rail. The whole feeling is that you're going to leap out into space and be crushed. But you don't. You get sucked right through the vacuum."
"It's a very spaced, light feeling. . . not one of intense pressure but one of weightlessness."
—Wayne Lynch, Backdoor Surfer, March-April, 1976.