If you have to swim just don't let go of your paddle. Your boat will help take you in if you don't let go of that also. Swim between waves if you have to, but generally just conserve energy.
You can throw any move on the ocean wave you can do on a river wave. The key to areal moves on ocean waves is that you must do it on your first or second bounce. You should bounce as you first start coming down the wave. If you wait to long you loose potencial energy and therefore you loose speed to execute your move. Don't trick late, you'll loose your momentum. I like doing cartwheels, wavewheels, donkey flips, blunts and backstabs.
The Jackson Super Fun will be just that... super fun! It has good volume for loops too.
Yeah I interchange the terms rails and edges, yeah same thing.
Chekc out this web site. It has surf reports all around the world. This is the site for Kitty Hawk in NC:
magicseaweed.com/Kitty-Hawk-Surf-Report/677/
Have some Super Fun out there.
Peace in the Middle-East,
Whitewaterules