You high performance Longboarders can probably understand this... We could almost coin a new phase, the "Touch Down".

A late drop in, clean conditions. You always know you're going to get the wave, but you decide to do the lazy paddle, and almost miss the wave, but you wait for the sudden tail lift (inevitable tail lift), and get to your feet with that smooth timing where you control the nose "diving" with a combo of hand and rear foot placement, and the nose just goes into "Touch Down" mode, and you've laid it over onto the inside rail, and you've literally got 9 foot of rail in the face.

I will credit Bob McT's Original for helping me learn this great Longboard technique. Now Dick Brewer's shape also compliments those lessons learned. The high rocker of The Original allowed that for that late slicing take off.