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Thanks for the discussion and references. I think I've got a clearer
picture now: You want to be going a bit slower than the wave (so it
catches up to you) but not too much slower (so it doesn't just pass
under you quickly). Then as you start riding up the sloped front of
the wave, the "normal force" of the water surface pushes you forward.
Presumably you then adjust your position along the slope to balance
air resistance
and maintain equilibrium (in the wave's frame of
reference, so there is no water drag, at least until you start moving
laterally along the wavefront and no longer straight toward the
beach).
Next question: How does plasma wakefield acceleration (which is alsohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_acceleration
often described as "surfing") work?