Surfing

Surfing

Surfing is a water sport and recreational activity in which the wave rider, rides the forward face of a wave usually towards the shore. While most suitable waves for surfing are found in the ocean the activity can also be performed on lakes. The wave rider balances on a surf board while riding the waves.

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messy

Sports; Surfing

Waves that close out, break irregularly and that are not ideal to surf on. The opposite of clean surf, generally caused by an onshore or cross-shore wind.

shorepound

Sports; Surfing

Waves that break right on the beach. Usually not surfable, and more powerful and steeper than a normal beachbreak, because the waves shoal and break quickly due to the fast transition from deep to ...

bail out

Sports; Surfing

To abandon or ditch one's surfboard before getting wiped out by the wave, either paddling out, or while riding the wave.

snake

Sports; Surfing

Waves should be shared, but snakes take it all. To snake is to drop in out of turn. A person who regularly sneaks around behind other surfers in order to take more waves; the act of doing so. This is ...

lined up

Sports; Surfing

Waves or swells with long crests, either in deep water or as they break. If they waves are too lined up they will close out. Perfect waves at point breaks are very lined up but still break from one ...

monochromatic waves

Sports; Surfing

Waves generated in a laboratory wave pool for scientific study where each wave has the same length and period.

overhead

Sports; Surfing

Wave heights that are great than the height of the surfer on the wave. Often used as a measurement scale of waves such as 2 feet overhead, three feet overhead, double overhead, triple overhead. Etc.