What does backside and frontside mean?

What does backside and frontside mean?

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Any time you're facing the wall you're frontside. Any time your back's to the wall, you're backside. It's the same as surfing pretty much. If you have the ability to switch stance and do all that stuff eventually that's cool because is just gives you more angles and more adaptability to different surfaces.