It often feels like your inside a large washing machine! Wipe out - falling off your board spectacularly. It's made from paraffin, colour, scent + additives. Wax - Used on deck of boards for traction. Wannabe - wan-na-be, someone who wants to be a surfer, wears the clothes and talks the talk but can't surf. Waffling - rapidly working the board back and forth. Tube - the cylindrical or cone shaped hole created when the lip pitches out far and clean enough to create a space between the wave and the falls. Trim - adjusting your position on a board so that it planes, and achieves its maximum speed. Tow-ins - getting towed into waves that are too large to paddle into. Throwing tail - sliding the tail in a turn, breaking the grip of the fins. Stuffed - getting driven under the water by a wave coming down on you. Surfer's knots - large bumps on the tops of feet and on knees caused by callousing where a surfer has continuously come into contact with a board. Stoked - Psyched up for a surf, wound up, full of enthusiasm. Stink-eye - Mean stare, normally given/received when a surfer has done something particularly wrong in the water like dropping in. Effectively the snake is taking ownership of the wave by being the closest rider to the breaking portion of the wave. Snake - paddling around behind someone who is already in position and stealing their wave. Slam - bounce off the lip as it begins to pitch. Sideslip - when your board stops tracking forwards and moves sideways. Sick - excellent, describing a surfer, stunt, manoeuvre or conditions. Shred - ability to execute rapid repeated turns - shortboard term. Scabbed - getting damaged by a reef or rock. Squid-lips - an old skool insult used effectively in the film Big Wednesday! Schlong - thick, long, old style single-fin surfboard. Rip - to surf really well or a strong under current in the ocean. Quiver - a surfer's collection of boards or a board bag that holds several boards. Pearl - to go pearl diving, the nose of you board goes underwater and you normally follow it! Pitted - being in the pit or barrel of a wave. Pitch - throw or angle of any run to rise. Pit - the hollowest portion of a breaking wave. Noodle - exhausted, overall condition or specific as in noodle arms. Nipped - nipples rubbed raw by board or wetsuit. Hoot - howling approval and encouragement to friends. Hanging five - lonboarding expression for dangling five toes over the nose of the board whilst trimming along the face of the wave. Gunned - undergunned or overgunned refers to the size of your board in relation to wave conditions. Green room - inside a full cover-up tube. Gremmies - grem or gremmie is short for gremlin - 60's slang for young, mischievous surfer, pre-adolescent surfer. Going off - a break under optimum conditions. taking off on the shoulder while someone is taking off deeper.ĭrop in late - catching the steepest part of a waveįalls - the pitching lip of the wave, geting sucked into this = 'going over the falls'!įrigged - snaked, having a wave taken from you by a surfer paddling inside of you. Air - getting airborne with fins out of the water.Īerial - airborne manoeuvre with many varieties borrowed from snow & skateboarding.īackdoor - to pull into a tube from behind the peak.īail - to abandon a board - jump off - usually without regard to the boards future.īrah - from bruddah, Hawaiian pidgin for brother.īumps - the build-up of wax on a surfboard deck.Ĭheater five - hanging five toes on the nose - keep your weight back on the board to maintain trim and speed, squat down and extend one foot forward.Ĭlucked- afraid, intimidated by the wave.Ĭrew - a group of surfers defined by break or area.ĭrop - as in dropping from the crest of the wave to the pit.ĭropping in - catching a wave that is already occupied.
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