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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Entry line

Sports; Surfing

The line a surfer will draw when dropping into a wave.

Layback

Sports; Surfing

The layback is a surfing manoeuver where the surfer literally lays backwards on a wave. It's one of surfing's more extreme tricks.

Drop

Sports; Surfing

The initial part of a ride when a surfer slides down the face of the wave.

Wave train

Sports; Surfing

The independent swell or waves in the wave spectrum, which have originated from the same storm or fetch of wind, and are moving in the same direction. At a single location like a buoy, there may be a ...

Wind surge

Sports; Surfing

The increase in mean sea level caused by the "piling up" of water on the coastline by wind.

Santa ana wind

Sports; Surfing

The hot, dry, and gusty offshore winds in Southern California that are actually born near the Rocky Mountains. Typically seen between September and February, the offshore breezes begin when a ridge ...

Group velocity

Sports; Surfing

The forward speed of a swell, or wave group. In deep water, it is equal to 1. 5 times the swell period between successive waves in the wave group. The waves within the wave group move twice as fast ...